Date: Wed, 27 Sep 2006 22:29:55 +0300 From: "Emre Sahin" <i.emre.sahin@gmail.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: pdf editor Message-ID: <fc1917020609271229s28e13ecena4bb8042b690ec26@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <86zmclqhyu.fsf@presario.homeunix.org> References: <45194B55.6050609@verizon.net> <B642391B-AF4E-4829-AF5E-035BCD98A42D@gmail.com> <Pine.LNX.4.64.0609271247000.4339@Psilocybe.Update.UU.SE> <20060927124549.GA568@home> <20060927131403.GA18332@mech-aslap33.men.bris.ac.uk> <86zmclqhyu.fsf@presario.homeunix.org>
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On 9/27/06, Xiao-Yong Jin <xj2106@columbia.edu> wrote: > Anton Shterenlikht <mexas@bristol.ac.uk> writes: > [...] > > > > Lately I was sending them pdfs and got in reply some pdfs that can > > only be viewed properly with the latest acrobat, and their comments > > are only visible on the screen anyway and cannot at all be printed. > > > > So what do I do? More broadly, what is the solution for cross- > > platform (*nix - windows - vms) editing of a complex document, with > > lots of maths, line plots and raster images? > > I think any kind of mark-up file format that is open will do. > Such as LaTeX. Graphics is the hard part, any way. > > Xiao-Yong > Maybe not here, but in some cases pdftohtml in http://sourceforge.net/projects/pdftohtml/ may help. HTML seems to be the most easily edited format across platforms, yet it is not for printing on paper. For math, MathML support or inline images may be a solution. Ah! By the way, you can see LyX at www.lyx.org. It's like a front-end to LaTeX. The version in the ports is 1.3.x, which is a bit older. (But will give you the idea.) It has a Windows version running on top of MikTeX and the version in the ports works on tetex. It's not perfect for a Word addict and may need some tutorial reading, yet much comfortable than plain LaTeX. Best. Emre
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