PDF Editor in Ubuntu

[H.S.]

Karl F. Larsen wrote:
> H.S. wrote:
>> Karl F. Larsen wrote:
>>   
>>> NoOp wrote:
>>>     
>>>> On 05/29/2009 12:07 PM, Dotan Cohen wrote:
>>>>   
>>>>       
>>>>>>> Interesting. Can you check aptitude policy and see that you have all
>>>>>>> the dependencies installed?
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>         
>>>>>>>             
>>>>>> Pretty sure that I had. I'll reinstall it later today (I uninstalled
>>>>>> yesterday) when I have a chance.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>       
>>>>>>           
>>>>> Thanks. CC me so that I'll be sure to read it.
>>>>>
>>>>>     
>>>>>         
>>>> Won't be until later this weekend... I'm backing down the test machine
>>>> from jaunty to intrepid in order to try and troubleshoot why printing to
>>>> cups-pdf no longer saves the fonts in the pdf file. Result is that
>>>> jaunty renders cups-pdf pretty useless regardless of which ppd driver is
>>>> used. 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]
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>   
>>>>       
>>>     Guys I have made .pdf files from .odt files with open office and 
>>> they open fine with the linux viewer Evince but when I try to load them 
>>> to Scribus it says they are not good and will not load them. This is 
>>> Linux to Linux and it fails. Sribus will load other .pdf files I have 
>>> that came from other sources.
>>>
>>>     I think the message is that OO makes a poor pdf and we need a better 
>>>     
>> Try OOo -> Print to PS -> convert the resulting PS file to PDF using
>> ps2pdf. See if scribus complains about the resulting PDF.
>>
>> ps2pdf is the most robust method I have seen of producing PDFs on Linux.
>> Been using this method since last some years with LaTeX, never fails. If
>> scribus complains with this PDF as well, maybe something is the matter
>> with scribus.
>>
>> Regards.
>>
>>
>>   
>     Hello and here is what happens. If I save an OO with a jpg picture 
> within as a .pdf the normal Linux viewer displays it fine and it looks 
> good. But if I use pdf2ps to make it a .ps file it is total curruption.
> 
>     I used OO and told it to print to a file and it did in ps. This file 
> DVD.ps looks fine with the viewer and I then applied ps2dvd and that 

I do not now what is ps2dvd. Did you mean ps2pdf?

> worked fine and looked good in the viewer. But Scribus upchucked and 
> didn't display even this good pdf. I am not going to say that Scribus is 
> wrong however because I do have other non-OO pdf files it loads fine. I 
> think the OO pdf may well still be at fault.

If I can open a PDF in evince, kpdf and acroread, I assume it is good.
Maybe there is a formal way of checking this, but I am not aware of any.

Perhaps it is time you asked this on Scribus's mailing list.


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