Re: PDF Editor for Debian

2024-06-26 Thread Richard
qpdf is good for e.g. removing any password protection - given you know the password. But I kinda doubt that's what's meant with editor. And quite frankly, you can do most of what qpdf does more comfortably with tools like PDFSam or PDF Arranger. The latter even lets you crop pages or rename the

Re: PDF Editor for Debian

2024-06-26 Thread Franco Martelli
On 24/06/24 at 00:50, Arbol One wrote: Hello. Is there a PDF editor that would work with Debian 12? Time ago I used Qpdf to delete some pages in a .pdf, for a quick description: ~$ apt show qpdf in the manual there are some command examples, I used these command to edit a pdf: - To

Re: PDF Editor for Debian

2024-06-25 Thread tomas
On Tue, Jun 25, 2024 at 08:01:26PM +0200, Detlef Vollmann wrote: > On Mon, 24 Jun 2024 04:26:47 -0400 > Timothy M Butterworth wrote: > > > I use Master PDF Editor. It works great. > > https://code-industry.net/free-pdf-editor/ > > It looks nice. > But being a closed source SW from Russia I'd be

Re: PDF Editor for Debian

2024-06-25 Thread Detlef Vollmann
On Mon, 24 Jun 2024 04:26:47 -0400 Timothy M Butterworth wrote: > I use Master PDF Editor. It works great. > https://code-industry.net/free-pdf-editor/ It looks nice. But being a closed source SW from Russia I'd be careful to run it outside of an isolated VM (which is actually true for most

Re: Needed tool for vision-impaired - was [Re: PDF Editor for Debian]

2024-06-24 Thread Richard
I wouldn't say PDFs are bad for visually impaired users. In fact, as bitmap fonts are thankfully a thing of the past for almost everywhere, you can zoom any document to your hearts desire. Though sometimes you need some tricks, e.g. Evince is configured to only use 50 MB of storage by default for

Re: Needed tool for vision-impaired - was [Re: PDF Editor for Debian]

2024-06-24 Thread Nicolas George
Karen Lewellen (12024-06-24): > Good afternoon. > I am providing another option that might help here. > robobraille, > > www.robobraille.org > Provides services, free of charge, that will convert pdf files to a number > of different formats, including .html > They provide audio, mobi, and

Re: Needed tool for vision-impaired - was [Re: PDF Editor for Debian]

2024-06-24 Thread Karen Lewellen
Good afternoon. I am providing another option that might help here. robobraille, www.robobraille.org Provides services, free of charge, that will convert pdf files to a number of different formats, including .html They provide audio, mobi, and convert epub files too..but I digress. As a

Needed tool for vision-impaired - was [Re: PDF Editor for Debian]

2024-06-24 Thread Richard Owlett
On 06/24/2024 12:35 AM, Richard wrote: Hello, this very much depends on what you are expecting it to do. In general, PDFs are only meant to be viewed - and printed - they where never meant for anything else. ... Second sentence should read: ... only meant to be viewed by those with *NORMAL*

Publishing Formats (was: PDF Editor for Debian)

2024-06-24 Thread Richard
Since it's quite OT, starting a new thread for this. I would most certainly never call formats like ooxml or odf “publishing formats”, they are content creation or editing formats. From a publishing format I expect to be able to show the content as intended — which actually neither of them can

Re: PDF Editor for Debian

2024-06-24 Thread jeremy ardley
On 24/6/24 13:35, Richard wrote: So your best bet is just to try to never have to edit a PDF at all. Always try to get a hand on the original file the PDF was delivered from. Even if it's a docx In my view, pdf and docx shoud be regarded as publication formats for content managed in a

Re: PDF Editor for Debian

2024-06-24 Thread Timothy M Butterworth
On Mon, Jun 24, 2024 at 2:23 AM Arbol One wrote: > Hello. > Is there a PDF editor that would work with Debian 12? > I use Master PDF Editor. It works great. https://code-industry.net/free-pdf-editor/ Thanks. > -- > *ArbolOne.ca* Using Fire Fox and Thunderbird. ArbolOne is composed of >

Re: PDF Editor for Debian

2024-06-24 Thread Klaus Singvogel
Arbol One wrote: > Is there a PDF editor that would work with Debian 12? It's depending on what you understand under "edit", and whether you expect to use Free Open Source Software (FOSS) or not. If you just want to fill out forms (JavaScript), then I'd recommend the FOSS programs: chromium

Re: PDF Editor for Debian

2024-06-23 Thread Richard
Hello, this very much depends on what you are expecting it to do. In general, PDFs are only meant to be viewed - and printed - they where never meant for anything else. Even filling out forms is just s bad hackjob through JavaScript. That being said, there is software with PDF editing capabilities

PDF Editor for Debian

2024-06-23 Thread Arbol One
Hello. Is there a PDF editor that would work with Debian 12? Thanks. -- */ArbolOne.ca/* Using Fire Fox and Thunderbird. ArbolOne is composed of students and volunteers dedicated to providing free services to charitable organizations. ArbolOne on Java Development is in progress [ í ]