Dear Neil, I am taking the liberty of posting my reply to our mailing list as well.
On Tue, 2004-02-03 at 02:23, Neil Williams wrote: > Dear ScribusDocs > > Thanks, Scribus is a great application and the documentation is very > well written. Thanks. > > However, I had hoped that Scribus would have been able to help me mark > up PDF's like I can with the full version of Acrobat on PC or Mac. > > I can get a PDF document into Scribus and add notes. My approach is open > a new document, add a picture, get a PDF, add a text object and make it > a PDF annotation. But this approach is cumbersome and has limitations. > > Is there a better way to marking up PDF's with Scribus? Or is there a > tool available on Linux which is designed specifically for marking up PDF's? > > If the answer is no, do you think it may be possible for me to use > Scribus as a starting point for developing a PDF mark up application for > Linux? Or are there technical difficulties I am not aware of? > > Best Regards > > Neil The approach you have outlined is the best possible at the moment and I would note Scribus has far more PDF capabilities in this regard than any other application in Linux land. What you have discovered while Scribus' PDF *creation* capabilities far beyond most apps in Linux, *Editing* PDF's is another matter. Undertaking to directly edit, previously created PDF's, is a very complex task. To do so would require building a complete PDF parser - a complex coding task in itself. There are only a handful of applications besides Acrobat itself, which can do this. These PDF editing applications are developed by ISV's who have a close relationship with Adobe and possibly some NDA with them - none run on Linux. I would note full Acrobat 5.0.5 and special Acrobat plug-ins like Pit Stop and PDF Inspektor run fine on recent versions of Wine. I have yet to be be successful with Acrobat Reader or Acrobat Pro 6.0. That said, the Scribus team would certainly welcome discussion on this for future versions. Regards, Peter -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 189 bytes Desc: This is a digitally signed message part Url : http://nashi.altmuehlnet.de/pipermail/scribus/attachments/20040203/41c67fc9/attachment.pgp
