On Mon, 23 Apr 2007 23:53:55 -0500 dwain <dwain.alford at gmail.com> wrote:
> John Jason Jordan wrote: > > On Tue, 24 Apr 2007 07:07:48 +0300 > > Nigel Ridley <nigel at rmk.co.il> wrote: > > > > > >> Since Acrobat is no longer in the main repositories for *ubuntu > >> because of licensing problems (I've also heard that there is now a > >> 'phone home' element in Acrobat), what can Acrobat do that KPDF > >> cannot (with regards to the functionality of Scribus)? > >> If I am going to use Scribus to the full, do I really need Acrobat? > >> > > > > KPDF cannot handle editable PDFs. The only PDF viewer that can do so > > currently is Adobe Reader 7.0 or later. > > > > > some wonderful members of this list told me about cabaret, which is a > free for personal use pdf editor/viewer. i have been using it and you > can edit pdfs as well as fill out and save forms. you can get it for > windows and linux. here's the address: > http://www.cabaret-solutions.com/ Thanks. I just got it running on my Ubuntu Feisty amd64 computer. It does, indeed, allow editing of editable PDF documenhts. It also seems to be able to save a copy of the edited PDF. However, I discovered that it can't find my printers installed in CUPS. Maybe it's a setting somewhere. I'll poke at it more later.
