Re: How can I edit the text of a PDF file without having the source file of it?
Sridhar Dhanapalan wrote:
> On Sat, 21 Jun 2008 at 15:40, "Peter Williams" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> Hello Ubuntu-Australia ppl,
>>
>> { I apologize for waffling on (below) however I figured that I was best for
>> me to supply too much info rather than not enough. }
>>
>> I have a PDF file (eg an Adobe Portable Document Format) file which I
>> authored quite a long time ago... back when I was using M$ Windows XP Home
>> Edition as my Operating System. I now wish to edit the PDF file, however I
>> don't know where the source document is, or whether I even HAVE the source
>> file. From memory, the file was written using Micro$oft Word, and probably
>> printed with PDF995 (M$ Windows print driver which creates PDF documents).
>> [ eg PDF995 is available from the website www.pdf995.com ]
>
> PDF is primarily an export format - it was never designed to be edited.
> However, there are some tools out there which can do it - pdfedit and the
> soon-to-be-released OpenOffice.org 3.0 spring to mind.
It is possible to treat a PDF like a canvas and draw a white box with new text
over the old text. This is usually done programmatically and can take a lot of
fiddling.
It would also be possible to splice the original PDF with a new page replacing
the one with the old url. This is probably the easiest approach. PDF::Reuse [1]
will do this for you in perl but its API is reasonably complicated, there may
also be GUI tools for this including PDF Split and Merge [2]. Extract pages 1
to 4 and 6 to 16. Create a new page 5, merge back together.
[1] http://search.cpan.org/~nsharrock/PDF-Extract-3.02/lib/PDF/Extract.pm
[2] Open source, java: http://www.pdfsam.org/?page_id=10
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Re: Ubuntu preinstalled with 4 screen setup
Richard, How did you get on with your quad head setup? Any tips for others considering a similar setup. Hamish Kennard Consulting wrote: > Dear All, > > I am seriously considering switching to Ubuntu for my Java-based > software development. > > My sticking point is I would want a 4 screen setup, so presumably I > need one of those motherboards with two video card slots and two video > cards. > > I'm not wrapped in the idea of spending a lot of time tweaking drivers > and recompiling kernels, so is there any company that specializes in > building and configuring Ubuntu desktops? Could anyone recommend one? > > Regards, > > Richard. > -- ubuntu-au mailing list ubuntu-au@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-au
Re: Ubuntu preinstalled with 4 screen setup
Hi, Some more experience... my experience has been that you will require either identical video cards or video cards from different vendors (ie using different drivers). My most recent experience has been with a PCI-E nvidia card and a PCI one. $ lspci | grep -i nvidia 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation NV44 [Quadro NVS 285] (rev a1) 05:04.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation NV34 [GeForce FX 5200] (rev a1) I was using binary drivers and editing the xorg.conf. I can supply this if it would be of use. This setup would work but when powering down the monitors so save power, it would only wake one card back up correctly. I would love to see photos once setup. I had a play recently with xdmx but found it too sluggish for everyday use (see: http://dmx.sourceforge.net/). If buying new hardware, a dual PCI-Ex16 motherboard would be a better option. Hamish Dave Hall wrote: > Hi Richard, > > On Wed, 2008-03-12 at 17:38 -0700, Kennard Consulting wrote: >> Dear All, >> >> I am seriously considering switching to Ubuntu for my Java-based >> software development. >> >> My sticking point is I would want a 4 screen setup, so presumably I >> need one of those motherboards with two video card slots and two video >> cards. >> >> I'm not wrapped in the idea of spending a lot of time tweaking drivers >> and recompiling kernels, so is there any company that specializes in >> building and configuring Ubuntu desktops? Could anyone recommend one? > > I can't recommend anyone, but I will fill you in on my experience with > multihead desktops. > > A few years ago I spent a couple of hours (ok maybe 3) getting Debian > woody running with 3 15" CRTs. I used 1 AGP card and 2 PCI cards, all > FOSS drivers. It worked well and didn't take much work on my part. > > Things have since moved on. If you want to spend a few hours learning > something new, a couple of nvidia cards and the binary drivers should do > the trick. > > I currently have an ATI card in my 3yo laptop (running Hardy alpha - > 8.04) and I get nice wobbly fading windows and other GL effects. I have > also used projectors (mostly) without incident with the FOSS drivers. > > Things have come a long way since Ubuntu was first released. > > Given that I am just down the road from you in Belgrave (whois is > great), I am happy to try to be of assistance if you want to try to do > it yourself. I am sure we can work something out. > > Cheers > > Dave -- ubuntu-au mailing list ubuntu-au@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-au
