still looking for decent PDF annotation tool
Dotan Cohen
dotancohen at gmail.com
Fri Jan 21 22:05:00 UTC 2011
On Fri, Jan 21, 2011 at 22:09, MR ZenWiz <mrzenwiz at gmail.com> wrote:
> Well, you are, but that's ok. PDF is a proprietary format owned and
> operated by Adobe. While many utilities exist to mess with them, most
> do not allow you to edit them. AFAICT, even Acrobat won't let you
> "edit" a PDF so much as create a new one from an old one and then
> rewrite the file (which is functionally the same but technically a
> little different). PDFs are great for exchanging files that never
> need to be changed again. For everything else, there's
> LibreOffice....
>
PDF has been an open standard for a few years now. But the standard is
terse, it is a subset of PS.
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