PDF Editor in Ubuntu

[Karl F. Larsen]

Dotan Cohen wrote:
>> Here's one:
>>
>>  https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=169516
>>
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> Thanks, I triaged and commented.
>
>   
>> I guess I must have given up on okular at that point. It's just unusable
>> the way I work.
>>
>>     
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> I'd love more comments or bugs to triage. For KDE's benefit, and yours.
>
>   
>> I'm actually considering going back to Windows for writing, editing and
>> publishing work, as the Linux tools are either too buggy or badly behaved
>> to work with. (I mainly work with LaTeX producing PDFs.)
>>     
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> That would probably be best, as PDF-editing tools in Linux are
> desperately lacking. Things that you can do to help:
> * File bugs on existing Linux applications
> * Write to the developers of Windows-based applications that you use
> and request Linux versions.
>
> While the second option may have seemed ridiculous just two or three
> years ago, today it is entirely viable. It seems that lots of devs are
> considering Linux versions, we have to show them that the market share
> exists.
>
>   
    Also, since a "PDF" is a clearly defined document exactly the same 
under Windows and Linux, in theory at least an application working on 
Windows should be duck soup to port to Linux.


Karl


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