Re: reliable editting of any PDF file

On Feb 13, 2008 1:42 AM, michael <cs@networkingnewsletter.org.uk> wrote:
> On Tue, 2008-02-12 at 15:27 -0800, Kelly Clowers wrote:
> > On Feb 12, 2008 1:49 PM, Micha <michf@post.tau.ac.il> wrote:
> > >
> > > Yes, but for me for example it would be very useful if I could add notes to
> > > papers I download to reference in my work (academics, it's what you are
> > > supposed to do ;-). I don't have access to the originals (with pdf's you rarely
> > > do actually, people give you the pdf in the first place to make sure that you
> > > see it properly, not to edit it).
> > >
> > > I would have been happy if there was something that could do highlighting,
> > > notes, lines and really ecstatic if it could actually do equations ...
> > >
> > > thought of writing something like that once but never got the time to dig in.
> >
> > Evince got form support in 2.20, and was originally supposed to get
> > annotation support at the same time. Unfortunately, that was pushed
> > back, and according to the roadmap[1], it is now scheduled for 2.24
> > (due this fall). In the meantime, I believe Adobe Reader supports
> > annotations and there is a native Linux version.
> >
>
> just tried to install Adobe Reader 7 from their web site
> http://www.adobe.com/products/reader/productinfo/systemreqs/
>
> but got errors when running Alien
> mkb@amd64:~/src$ sudo alien --scripts AdobeReader_enu-8.1.2-1.i486.rpm
> mkdir: cannot create directory `AdobeReader_enu-8.1.2': File exists
> Package build failed. Here's the log:
> dh_testdir
> dh_testdir
> dh_testroot
> dh_clean -k -d
> dh_installdirs
> dh_installdocs
> dh_installchangelogs
> find . -maxdepth 1 -mindepth 1 -not -name debian -print0 | \
> xargs -0 -r -i cp -a {} debian/adobereader-enu
> dh_compress
> dh_makeshlibs
> dh_installdeb
> dh_shlibdeps
> dpkg-shlibdeps: warning: format of `NEEDED libResAccess.so' not
> recognize
> {& many more...}
> dpkg-shlibdeps: warning: format of `NEEDED libResAccess.so' not
> recognized
> dpkg-shlibdeps: warning: could not find any packages for
> libgdk_pixbuf_xlib-2.0. so.0
> {etc}
>
>
> However I see from http://www.bxlug.be/en/articles/128 that I can use
> "debian-marillat" sources - does anybody use acroread from there for
> *editting* PDFs?

I've been using the acroread from Marrilat's archive for a few years and it works well. I only need to enter data into pdf forms and print them so I have been using evince for the last month or so with good results.

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