new to ubuntu; have a few questions

[Constantine Evans]

Eamonn Sullivan wrote:
> On 11/9/06, Dwain Alford <dwain.alford at gmail.com> wrote:
>> 5. is there an open source pdf editor akin to acrobat (full version) and
>> nitro pdf?  i need more than a viewer.
> 
> Just doubleclick on a PDF file or open one from the Web and the
> default PDF viewer will open it.
> -Eamonn

Henk Koster wrote:
> The standard pdf-viewer is Evince, which you can open by right-clicking
> on a pdf-file. I don't know whether it has all the features you want, but
> then you can also install Acrobat Reader (package acroread). You may have
> to uncomment some repository lines in /etc/apt/sources.list (remove the
> # token at the start of the line). 


While I understand that there are many questions on this list and it is 
helpful to be able to compose one's answers in the shortest time 
possible, and there are many questions which are asked countless times, 
this is a perfect example of what happens when one answers without 
taking the time to read the question. Dwain specifically said in his 
question "i need more than a viewer"! He also had "pdf editor" in there, 
and "akin to acrobat *(full version)*" (emphasis added).

I keep seeing this happen with increasing frequency, especially on 
#ubuntu, but now on the forums and here as well. In #ubuntu, where I 
have the most experience with the issue, users get very upset about 
this, and it makes us look quite bad.

Please, take a moment to make sure that you are actually responding to 
the question that the user is asking.

To Dwain, I apologise for these answers. There are questions that are 
asked through Ubuntu's support methods with great frequency, and when 
asking something that might look similar to one of those questions, it 
is easy for people here to not realise that you are asking something 
unusual.

Thank you,
Constantine Evans