What is the best pdf editor for ubuntu?

Johnny Rosenberg gurus.knugum at gmail.com
Fri Apr 16 23:14:36 UTC 2010


2010/4/16 Gilles Gravier <ggravier at fsfe.org>:
> Hi!
>
> On 16/04/2010 21:33, Christoph Bier wrote:
>>
>>> Also, but that I'm not sure, acrobat format is not open, neither the
>>> software.
>>>
>> PDF is an open format and an ISO standard.
>>
> Which, in any case, has no link to the original question. :) MS Office
> DOC format is not open. OpenOffice.org is a very good tool to edit it.
>>> acrobat reader is free, editor is not.
>>>
>> You don't have to pay for Adobe Reader but it's not free.
>>
>
> Yes it is. The cost is ZERO. In the webster dictionnary, that qualifies
> as "free".
>
> Of course, you are playing on words here and you forgot (voluntarily) to
> specify "free as in speech".
>
> Acrobat Reader is free, as in free beer. Not as in free speech.
>
> I'm pretty sure the original comment "acrobat reader is free, editor is
> not" had, as an implied meaning, "free as in beer". Or else the original
> poster of that sentense would have (just as you should) claimed "it is
> not free - as in free speech". If you want people to be accurate, please
> be as well.

He he he… maybe we all should speak Swedish instead:
Fri=Free (as in free speech)
Gratis=Free (as in free beer)

;D

Regards

Johnny Rosenberg


>
> Gilles.
>
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