still looking for decent PDF annotation tool

[Robert P. J. Day]

On Fri, 21 Jan 2011, Titus wrote:

> It is manipulating the underlying PostScript code.  PostScript
> is a vector graphics format originally designed for describing
> a page to be printed.  Lots of programs will output PostScript:
> xfig, ghostview, TeX and LaTeX and lots more.  And there are
> programs ('ps2pdf' and others) that will take the PostScript
> and produce a .pdf file.  Similarly, there are programs
> ('pdf2ps' and others) that will convert a .pdf file back into
> a PostScript file.
>
> Gimp (I think) will do these conversions for you and allow you
> to mark up the document while it is open.  This is essentially
> what Adobe Acrobat (the $$ version) will do for you.

  so you're saying that programs that legitimately edit PDF files must
first convert back to postscript, then do the changes on the
postscript, then translate back to PDF?

rday

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