I wasn't suggesting that you could directly annotate it by printing to a new 
pdf, I was just wondering if the processing by ghostscript would produce a pdf 
that pdfedit can open.
 
Alister

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From: Joseph Thayer [mailto:[email protected]]
Sent: Tue 6/04/2010 5:32 p.m.
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [Pdfedit-support] PDFedit and IRS form 1040



On Monday 05 April 2010 09:49:53 pm Alister Hood wrote:
> I was actually talking about printing to a new PDF file, not to paper...
> if you don't know what that means I'm guessing Ubuntu doesn't have a PDF
> printer set up.
>
> ________________________________________________
> Alister Hood
>
>>snip,snip<<
>>>
GhostScript is available on Linux, and specifically in Ubuntu, and will
essentially do what you are talking about. 

I did indeed use that route when I was working in Win98, but it was
cumbersome, and relied on Adobe Reader and occasionally, Foxit, as well as the
so-called PDF printer driver.  I tried several such drivers and they all
worked in a more or less kludgy fashion, but one or two were not bad and
generally provided collating and splitting functions, inclusion of image files
and the like. 

My issue is that I need to make *annotations* on existing PDF documents, and
none of those drivers had this ability.  Previously, I tried it with GS, but
found it impractical. 

With pdftk, I get all necessary collating and splitting, and with PDFedit, not
only some of these functions, but also annotation.  I really don't see what
advantage you are suggesting printing to a PDF file would provide here.

Joe

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