PDF Editor in Ubuntu

[Karl F. Larsen]

marc wrote:
> 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.
>
>   
    And to add to verify this I turned on my Jaunty laptop and in a 
terminal I wrote:

$ locate cups-pdf and got zip. Then I typed: $ sudo aptitude install 
cups-pdf and it did.

    It appears someone forgot, but then we are a all flawed humans :-)

How do you think President Obama got elected?


73 karl


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