PDF Editor in Ubuntu

[marc]

NoOp said:

> On 05/29/2009 03:21 PM, marc wrote:
>> Dotan Cohen said:
>> 
>>>> But the kde folk are not accepting criticism - all I hear is excuses
>>>> - so there is every likelihood that they will do the same thing
>>>> again.
>>>>
>>> This is where we disagree. KDE loves criticism, otherwise they
>>> wouldn't have dug themselves such a hole!
>> 
>> Best laugh I've had all day. Nice one :-)
>> 
>> Anyway, I've decided to see whether gnome will work for me for now -
>> it's that or a Mac. I just discovered gnome-do, and that lets me set-up
>> a lot of the "key command"/aliasing stuff that I rely on, so I'll see
>> how it goes. The down side is that gnome runs hotter on my laptop and
>> the fan is more active.
>> 
>> 
> Just be aware of the cups-pdf issues in jaunty (they work fine in hardy
> & intrepid and I think they are not desktop related):
> 
> See:
> http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1153731 [bad quality with
> cups-pdf]
> http://ubuntu-virginia.ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?p=7112748 [pdf
> fonts all jaggy]
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/cups-pdf/+bug/381788 [[jaunty]
> cups-pdf no longer embeds fonts in pdf file] (my bug report)
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/cups-pdf/+bug/366949 [cups-pdf
> produces large pdfs and text can not be searched] and, of course the top
> prize goes to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/362689 [cups-pdf printing
> missing after Jaunty upgrade]

More madness. Why would they do this? Seems very Windowsy.

This shouldn't affect me as I use pdflatex, which does font embedding.

It just never occurs to me not to embed fonts. It's what you always want 
after all.

-- 
Best,
Marc

"Change requires small steps."