PDF Editor in Ubuntu

[NoOp]

On 05/29/2009 07:31 AM, Karl F. Larsen wrote:
> Dotan Cohen wrote:

>> 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.


I think it the 'old days' that may have been true & perhaps it still is
for the core pdf, but today's pdf's are so filled with 'gee-whiz'
addon's that it's no longer easy to do a simple port. For example, pdfs
now have embedded forms, javascript, browser links, etc., etc. It's sort
of like trying to keep up with converting MS Word documents into OOo ODF
format and still retain as much of the original as you can in the
converted document.