PDF Editor in Ubuntu

[Karl F. Larsen]

H.S. wrote:
> Karl F. Larsen wrote:
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>> H.S. wrote:
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>>> Karl F. Larsen wrote:
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>>>> NoOp wrote:
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>>>>> On 05/29/2009 12:07 PM, Dotan Cohen wrote:
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>>>>>>>> Interesting. Can you check aptitude policy and see that you have all
>>>>>>>> the dependencies installed?
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>>>>>>> Pretty sure that I had. I'll reinstall it later today (I uninstalled
>>>>>>> yesterday) when I have a chance.
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>>>>>> Thanks. CC me so that I'll be sure to read it.
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>>>>> 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]
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>>>>     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.
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>>>>     I think the message is that OO makes a poor pdf and we need a better 
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>>> Try OOo -> Print to PS -> convert the resulting PS file to PDF using
>>> ps2pdf. See if scribus complains about the resulting PDF.
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>>> 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.
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>>> Regards.
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>>     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.
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>>     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 
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> I do not now what is ps2dvd. Did you mean ps2pdf?
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>> 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.
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> 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.
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> Perhaps it is time you asked this on Scribus's mailing list.
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>   
    I have done some testing and Scribus really will not accept a .pdf 
file for entry to it. Period. When you get ready to bring a file into 
Scribus it disallows any .pdf so this is a good indicator.

    Scribus will import ANY .ps file you feed it. But it takes a LONG 
time for Sribus to put the file into the proper box. After all Scribus 
is NOT an editor. It is an assembler and I have not got a good 
understanding of this yet. Even the Scribus web page is weak in 
documentation.

73 Karl


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