Re: Highlighting and annotating PDFs?

Yay for replying to 6 month old posts. also sprach martin f krafft <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2006.08.14.0153 +0200]: > also sprach Hanspeter Kunz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2006.08.13.2218 +0100]: > > have a look at > > > > http://multivalent.sourceforge.net/ > > > > sounds promising. never tried it thoug

Re: Making Firefox use certain fonts for printing (was: Re: Highlighting and annotating PDFs?)

also sprach Rogério Brito <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2006.08.27.2018 +0200]: > So, in light of this, would anybody know how to tell Firefox to > explicitly use some given fonts in what it prints? You can probably add a user stylesheet with @media selectors: @media print { body { font-family: foo

Making Firefox use certain fonts for printing (was: Re: Highlighting and annotating PDFs?)

Sorry for jumping latter in this discussion, but this is one of the topics that interest me the most (preparing documents, including for archival). On Aug 14 2006, martin f krafft wrote: > also sprach George Borisov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2006.08.14.1338 +0100]: > > The resulting file is _not_ searc

Re: Highlighting and annotating PDFs?

Thibaut Paumard wrote: > These don't: > - print from oowriter, then ps2pdf; > - scribus (1.3.2) export PDF. > Hmm I just exported a 50page document using scribus 1.2.5 and text searching works when I open the pdf in acroread. The following is what the scribus devs said: "scribus inserts t

Re: Highlighting and annotating PDFs?

On Saturday 12 August 2006 15:14, martin f krafft wrote: > I am in need of a way to annotate PDF documents, and to highlight > text therein. I cannot find a single tool to do this. Does anyone > know what I could use? > > Or is Adobe Acrobat Standard (which is not available for Linux), the > only w

Re: Highlighting and annotating PDFs?

On Mon, Aug 14, 2006 at 11:31:02AM -0400, Matej Cepl wrote: > martin f krafft wrote: > > lapse:~> dpkg -l xpr\* | grep '^[[:lower:]]' > > #[318] > > un xprint (no description available) > > Weird: > > Package: firefox > Depends: fontconfig, psmisc, de

Re: Highlighting and annotating PDFs?

martin f krafft wrote: > lapse:~> dpkg -l xpr\* | grep '^[[:lower:]]' > #[318] > un xprint (no description available) Weird: Package: firefox Depends: fontconfig, psmisc, debianutils (>= 1.16), libatk1.0-0 (>= 1.9.0), libc6 (>= 2.3.6-6), libcairo2 (>=

Re: Highlighting and annotating PDFs?

also sprach Matej Cepl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2006.08.14.1543 +0100]: > This is not fair -- to use W-word on poor Firefox. No, IMHO reasons are > slightly more complicated than that. They use for printing on non-Windows, > non-Mac (I am not sure about that) platforms Xprint >

Re: Highlighting and annotating PDFs?

martin f krafft wrote: > Run 'strings' on the PS it generates and you'll see that it prints > images rather than text. I am not surprised, Firefox comes to us > from Windows. They don't know how to deal with text over there. This is not fair -- to use W-word on poor Firefox. No, IMHO reasons are s

Re: Highlighting and annotating PDFs?

On Mon, Aug 14, 2006 at 03:44:41PM +0200, Thibaut Paumard wrote: > These don't: > - print from oowriter, then ps2pdf; However, the current oowriter will export PDF directly. -- Carl Fink [EMAIL PROTECTED] Read my blog at nitpickingblog.blogspot.com. Reviews

Re: Highlighting and annotating PDFs?

Thibaut Paumard wrote: > However, in these two tests, the text is copy-and-pastable, as text. So > the problem is not that the PDF is drawn as images. Actually, in the > scribus PDF, I can search a few smaller substrings (like "xt" in my > sample text "test text"). The problem is that original PDF

Re: Highlighting and annotating PDFs?

Le lundi 14 août 2006 à 13:38 +0100, George Borisov a écrit : > George Borisov wrote: > > Thibaut Paumard wrote: > >> Fortunately, this statement is as false as can be. Under GNU/Linux, the > >> easy way of creating a PDF from whatever is to print to PS and then run > >> ps2pdf on the output. The r

Re: Highlighting and annotating PDFs?

martin f krafft wrote: > > also sprach George Borisov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2006.08.14.1338 +0100]: >> Just tried to print some text from Firefox to PS and then use ps2pdf. >> >> The resulting file is _not_ searchable (xpdf and evince,) and at >> 28K is more than twice the size of the same text bei

Re: Highlighting and annotating PDFs?

also sprach CJ van den Berg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2006.08.14.1250 +0100]: > IE6 should work fine under wine. You might want to try out WineTools [1] if > you need help getting a basic wine setup running. Of course, as always with > wine, YMMV. Mh, Acrobat+wine on Linux I could deal with. Knowing of

Re: Highlighting and annotating PDFs?

George Borisov wrote: > Thibaut Paumard wrote: >> Fortunately, this statement is as false as can be. Under GNU/Linux, the >> easy way of creating a PDF from whatever is to print to PS and then run >> ps2pdf on the output. The resulting PDF is of good quality, searchable, >> and often smaller than t

Re: Highlighting and annotating PDFs?

On Mon, 14 Aug 2006 00:53:44 +0100 martin f krafft <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > also sprach Hanspeter Kunz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2006.08.13.2218 +0100]: > > have a look at > > > > http://multivalent.sourceforge.net/ > > > > sounds promising. never tried it though. > > This looks pretty interest

Re: Highlighting and annotating PDFs?

CJ van den Berg wrote: On Sun, Aug 13, 2006 at 02:19:56PM +0100, martin f krafft wrote: I tried wine, and since Acrobat requires IE 5.5, it failed. I don't have XOver Office and I won't shell out money for it without knowing it'll work 100%. IE6 should work fine under wine. You might want to

Re: Highlighting and annotating PDFs?

Thibaut Paumard wrote: > > Fortunately, this statement is as false as can be. Under GNU/Linux, the > easy way of creating a PDF from whatever is to print to PS and then run > ps2pdf on the output. The resulting PDF is of good quality, searchable, > and often smaller than the input PS. Using LaTeX,

Re: Highlighting and annotating PDFs?

On Sun, Aug 13, 2006 at 02:19:56PM +0100, martin f krafft wrote: > I tried wine, and since Acrobat requires IE 5.5, it failed. I don't > have XOver Office and I won't shell out money for it without knowing > it'll work 100%. IE6 should work fine under wine. You might want to try out WineTools [1]

Re: Highlighting and annotating PDFs?

Le lundi 14 août 2006 à 11:56 +0100, George Borisov a écrit : > martin f krafft wrote: > > > > skencil (which was sketch) does not seem to import either. pstoedit, > > well, what should I say, it kinda works, except my 120 kb 20 page > > test paper is now a 24 Mb file and no longer searchable with

Re: Highlighting and annotating PDFs?

martin f krafft wrote: > > skencil (which was sketch) does not seem to import either. pstoedit, > well, what should I say, it kinda works, except my 120 kb 20 page > test paper is now a 24 Mb file and no longer searchable with xpdf. Probably because most (if not all) free PDF-generating programs

Re: Highlighting and annotating PDFs?

also sprach Hanspeter Kunz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2006.08.13.2218 +0100]: > have a look at > > http://multivalent.sourceforge.net/ > > sounds promising. never tried it though. This looks pretty interesting. Thanks. First impressions: - it's Java. - Ugh! - it starts pretty quickly, even tho

Re: Highlighting and annotating PDFs?

On Sun, 2006-08-13 at 14:19 +0100, martin f krafft wrote: > also sprach martin f krafft <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2006.08.12.2253 +0100]: > > > Wine or Crossover Office? > > > > Sure, and I am even considering it, but I don't want to shell out > > money for Acrobat when there's another tool out there.

Re: Highlighting and annotating PDFs?

also sprach Stephen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2006.08.13.1552 +0100]: > When you say 'annotate" do you mean to add comments or notes to existing > PDFs or to do formatting changes on existing PDFs ? only add notes, ideally in the form of stickies. I am not even asking for the ability to move these arou

Re: Highlighting and annotating PDFs?

On Sun, Aug 13, 2006 at 03:14:09PM +0100 or thereabouts, martin f krafft wrote: > also sprach Thibaut Paumard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2006.08.13.1436 +0100]: > > > Sure a pipline like the one you give would work... if flpsed would > > > actually do what I want... it's a step in the right direction, bu

Re: Highlighting and annotating PDFs?

also sprach Thibaut Paumard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2006.08.13.1539 +0100]: > It imports at least eps and single page PS pretty well (but of > course not all of them perfectly). Neither of those two really make it an option when the goal is to keep notes and highlights together with existing 5-200 pa

Re: Highlighting and annotating PDFs?

Le dimanche 13 août 2006 à 15:14 +0100, martin f krafft a écrit : > also sprach Thibaut Paumard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2006.08.13.1436 +0100]: > > > Sure a pipline like the one you give would work... if flpsed would > > > actually do what I want... it's a step in the right direction, but > > [...] >

Re: Highlighting and annotating PDFs?

also sprach Thibaut Paumard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2006.08.13.1436 +0100]: > > Sure a pipline like the one you give would work... if flpsed would > > actually do what I want... it's a step in the right direction, but > [...] > > Would scribus work for you then? Well, except that neither scribus-ng

Re: Highlighting and annotating PDFs?

Le samedi 12 août 2006 à 21:13 +0100, martin f krafft a écrit : > also sprach Hubert Chan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2006.08.12.2039 +0100]: > > Would pdftops + flpsed + ps2pdf work for you? > Sure a pipline like the one you give would work... if flpsed would > actually do what I want... it's a step in t

Re: Highlighting and annotating PDFs?

also sprach martin f krafft <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2006.08.12.2253 +0100]: > > Wine or Crossover Office? > > Sure, and I am even considering it, but I don't want to shell out > money for Acrobat when there's another tool out there. Which makes > me think I can get it from the university for free any

Re: Highlighting and annotating PDFs?

also sprach Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2006.08.12.2236 +0100]: > martin f krafft wrote: > > I am in need of a way to annotate PDF documents, and to highlight > > text therein. I cannot find a single tool to do this. Does anyone > > know what I could use? > > > > Or is Adobe Acrobat Standard

Re: Highlighting and annotating PDFs?

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 martin f krafft wrote: > I am in need of a way to annotate PDF documents, and to highlight > text therein. I cannot find a single tool to do this. Does anyone > know what I could use? > > Or is Adobe Acrobat Standard (which is not available for Linux)

Re: Highlighting and annotating PDFs?

also sprach Hubert Chan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2006.08.12.2039 +0100]: > Would pdftops + flpsed + ps2pdf work for you? Thank you for taking the time to reply, Hubert! Sure a pipline like the one you give would work... if flpsed would actually do what I want... it's a step in the right direction, bu

Re: Highlighting and annotating PDFs?

On Sat, 12 Aug 2006 20:14:51 +0100, martin f krafft <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > I am in need of a way to annotate PDF documents, and to highlight text > therein. I cannot find a single tool to do this. Does anyone know what > I could use? Would pdftops + flpsed + ps2pdf work for you? -- Hubert

Highlighting and annotating PDFs?

I am in need of a way to annotate PDF documents, and to highlight text therein. I cannot find a single tool to do this. Does anyone know what I could use? Or is Adobe Acrobat Standard (which is not available for Linux), the only way? -- Please do not send copies of list mail to me; I read the li