Adobe Acrobat replacement

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Tuesday, June 24th 2003, 8:47am

I'm looking for a program with the same functionality as Adobe Acrobat, (i.e be able to edit pdf dokuments) in the KDE/Linux world. Anyone?

Ofcorse I use windows, how else would I get fresh air into the room?

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Kenneth

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Wednesday, June 25th 2003, 2:29am

Well, OpenOffice.org can save to PDF, but beyond that, I don't think so.

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anda_skoa

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Wednesday, June 25th 2003, 6:52pm

I read that someone is working on a PDF import filter for KWord.

Not the same thing as acrobat though.

You could ask Adobe when they'll release it for Linux.

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Kenneth

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Thursday, June 26th 2003, 4:50am

While you at it, ask about Photoshop, Illustrator, and the rest of the family. :wink:

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tuxnet

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Thursday, June 26th 2003, 8:10am

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While you at it, ask about Photoshop, Illustrator, and the rest of the family. :wink:

lol, yeah that would be very usefull

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anda_skoa

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Friday, June 27th 2003, 10:40am

I think it is a good idea to have them deal with such request. But obviously one should request only software you'd buy, otherwise they are very likely to regard it as trolling.

I prefer using the "innocent" user technique like "I was about to purchase XYZ for my new computer but I could only find the Mac and the Windows version in your online store. Please point me to the correct location for the Linux version"

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thuswa

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Friday, June 27th 2003, 11:18am

Ok, the main functionallity I am after is beeing able to extract and ocfcourse merge pages from different pdf documents.

As the the pdf file API is open it shouldn't be so hard to write a program with the above kind of functionallity, wouldn't it?.

I thought that the need for editing pdf documents would be quite wide spread. I at least depend a lot on it at work when compileing ducuments (for instance include handwritten test result sheets into a document).

Ofcorse I use windows, how else would I get fresh air into the room?

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Kenneth

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Friday, June 27th 2003, 9:09pm

Oh. I always thought it was a closed format and that's why there weren't PDF editors. Only viewers and the OpenOffice.org filter.

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Rinse

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Saturday, June 28th 2003, 12:14am

With kprinter you can create pdf-files from whatever application youre using.
kprinter is the default printing frontend in kde.
Check it out at http://printing.kde.org

Rinse

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tuxnet

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Tuesday, July 1st 2003, 11:24am

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With kprinter you can create pdf-files from whatever application youre using.
kprinter is the default printing frontend in kde.
Check it out at http://printing.kde.org

Rinse

Thanks for the TIP, I have tried it out last night and it works just as expected.

. I must tell you that it is unbelievable the amount of stuff I have learned just by reading the forum! :lol:

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pepieti

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Thursday, July 31st 2003, 8:31pm

pdftotext is your friend. It's part of xpdf at least in gentoo.

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Mystilleef

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Friday, August 1st 2003, 4:06pm

I realized nobody mentioned our favorite, KGhostView.

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heismark

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Sunday, August 24th 2003, 5:27pm

Re: Adobe Acrobat replacement

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I'm looking for a program with the same functionality as Adobe Acrobat, (i.e be able to edit pdf dokuments) in the KDE/Linux world. Anyone?

You could request Adobe to port it to Linux. Probably it will take a while :-)

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