ubuntu/linux: what is the best known pdf book compostion tool?

[Sarunas Burdulis]

On 05/02/2013 05:18 PM, ping wrote:
> hi linux/ubuntu folks:
> 
> in windows I know there is acrobat, I'm not talking about "producing
> pdf" here.
> 
> I'm talking about, given a pdf book, how to:
> * delete , add, re-arrange pages
> * rotake ,flip some pages
> * generate the index,
> * make a printer friendly layout, like 2 pages per side, with some gaps
> for each page.
> * etc...

Hello.

In my opinion, PDF wasn't meant for the operations above. It's supposed
to be a final format; for distribution, printing, archival. Optimally,
all of the above manipulation on contents should be done in an authoring
application, i.e. LaTeX, Libre/OpenOffice, Scribus etc. Then a PDF is
produced with a corresponding intent (printing, web distribution,...)

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