Re: editing pdf files

2012-01-15 Thread Joe Pfeiffer
"Weaver" writes: >> On Sat, 14 Jan 2012 22:18:11 +0100 >> Claudius Hubig wrote: >> >>> Hello richard, >>> >>> richard wrote: >>> >You end up filling in a form sending it off , only to get an answer the >>> form >>> >was blank. >>> >Always worth checking a file exported as a pdf, is what you thi

Re: editing pdf files

2012-01-15 Thread Siard
Jude DaShiell wrote: > can acroread and acroread-plugins work in a command line environment > or is this strictly gui? Not sure what you want. You can do a 'acroread filename.pdf', but of course you will need X for a PDF viewer. There are a few things you can do on the command line using acroread

Re: editing pdf files

2012-01-15 Thread Siard
Curt: > Siard: > > Curt: > > > Siard: > > > > Acroread should be able to do it, it's in the non-free > > > > repository. > > > > > > It is? > > > > In Wheezy: > > > > $ apt-cache policy acroread > > acroread: > > Installed: 9.4.6-0.1 > > ... > > http://www.debian-multimedia.org/ wheezy/non-f

Re: editing pdf files

2012-01-15 Thread Claudius Hubig
richard wrote: >On Sat, 14 Jan 2012 22:18:11 +0100 >Claudius Hubig wrote: > >> Hello richard, >> >> richard wrote: >> >You end up filling in a form sending it off , only to get an answer the form >> >was blank. >> >Always worth checking a file exported as a pdf, is what you think you want. >> >

Re: editing pdf files

2012-01-15 Thread green
Weaver wrote at 2012-01-15 05:44 -0600: > You can scan it back in at your end and attach it. Or fill it out, print it to cups-pdf, then attach the resulting PDF. signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: editing pdf files

2012-01-15 Thread Weaver
> On Sat, 14 Jan 2012 22:18:11 +0100 > Claudius Hubig wrote: > >> Hello richard, >> >> richard wrote: >> >You end up filling in a form sending it off , only to get an answer the >> form >> >was blank. >> >Always worth checking a file exported as a pdf, is what you think you >> want. >> >Xpdf tel

Re: editing pdf files

2012-01-15 Thread richard
on 14 Jan 2012 15:39:44 -0500 "John A. Sullivan III" wrote: > On Sat, 2012-01-14 at 20:10 +, richard wrote: > > On Sat, 14 Jan 2012 19:48:43 + (UTC) > > Curt wrote: > > > > > On 2012-01-14, Siard wrote: > > > > > > > > Acroread should be able to do it, it's in the non-free repository.

Re: editing pdf files

2012-01-15 Thread richard
On Sat, 14 Jan 2012 22:18:11 +0100 Claudius Hubig wrote: > Hello richard, > > richard wrote: > >You end up filling in a form sending it off , only to get an answer the form > >was blank. > >Always worth checking a file exported as a pdf, is what you think you want. > >Xpdf tells the truth, but

Re: editing pdf files

2012-01-14 Thread Jude DaShiell
can acroread and acroread-plugins work in a command line environment or is this strictly gui?On Sat, 14 Jan 2012, Siard wrote: > John A. Sullivan III: > > Form filling is not in the base package. I believe you need to > > install the acroread-plugins for that to work > > Indeed, after installin

Re: editing pdf files

2012-01-14 Thread Tony Baldwin
On Sat, Jan 14, 2012 at 01:00:35PM -0800, Weaver wrote: > > > John A. Sullivan III wrote: > >> This is a real hole in the Linux desktop environment. > > > > I disagree. PDFs are not _meant_ to be edited. Even Adobe Acrobat has > > very limited options to edit a PDF. There are third party plugins f

Re: editing pdf files

2012-01-14 Thread Claudius Hubig
Hello richard, richard wrote: >You end up filling in a form sending it off , only to get an answer the form >was blank. >Always worth checking a file exported as a pdf, is what you think you want. >Xpdf tells the truth, but its only a reader. You can try printing the filled-in form as PDF from w

Re: editing pdf files

2012-01-14 Thread Curt
On 2012-01-14, Siard wrote: >> > >> > Acroread should be able to do it, it's in the non-free repository. >> >> It is? > > In Wheezy: > > $ apt-cache policy acroread > acroread: > Installed: 9.4.6-0.1 > ... > http://www.debian-multimedia.org/ wheezy/non-free i386 Packages > ... When I r

Re: editing pdf files

2012-01-14 Thread Weaver
> John A. Sullivan III wrote: >> This is a real hole in the Linux desktop environment. > > I disagree. PDFs are not _meant_ to be edited. Even Adobe Acrobat has > very limited options to edit a PDF. There are third party plugins for > Acrobat that can do some more editing, but it's still rather li

Re: editing pdf files

2012-01-14 Thread Siard
Curt wrote: > On 2012-01-14, Siard wrote: > > > > Acroread should be able to do it, it's in the non-free repository. > > It is? In Wheezy: $ apt-cache policy acroread acroread: Installed: 9.4.6-0.1 ... http://www.debian-multimedia.org/ wheezy/non-free i386 Packages ... -- To UNSUBSCRI

Re: editing pdf files

2012-01-14 Thread John A. Sullivan III
On Sat, 2012-01-14 at 20:10 +, richard wrote: > On Sat, 14 Jan 2012 19:48:43 + (UTC) > Curt wrote: > > > On 2012-01-14, Siard wrote: > > > > > > Acroread should be able to do it, it's in the non-free repository. > > > > It is? > > > > > > Acroread both linux and win thing failed to s

Re: editing pdf files

2012-01-14 Thread Curt
On 2012-01-14, richard wrote: > > Hi Evince only looks like it can be used for forms. Works for me. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/slrnjh3pms.41d.cu

Re: editing pdf files

2012-01-14 Thread Siard
John A. Sullivan III: > Form filling is not in the base package. I believe you need to > install the acroread-plugins for that to work Indeed, after installing package acroread-plugins, acroread does form filling. Thanks. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with

Re: editing pdf files

2012-01-14 Thread richard
On Sat, 14 Jan 2012 19:48:43 + (UTC) Curt wrote: > On 2012-01-14, Siard wrote: > > > > Acroread should be able to do it, it's in the non-free repository. > > It is? > > Acroread both linux and win thing failed to save these forms, with an error Richard -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debi

Re: editing pdf files

2012-01-14 Thread richard
On Sat, 14 Jan 2012 20:44:14 +0100 Siard wrote: > hvw59601: > > Siard wrote: > > > hvw59601 wrote: > > > > and www.irs.gov/formspubs/index.html ? > > > > > > Those are PDFs with forms. On second thought, that's probably what > > > OP meant. But it wasn't understood as such by the other posters >

Re: editing pdf files

2012-01-14 Thread John A. Sullivan III
On Sat, 2012-01-14 at 20:44 +0100, Siard wrote: > hvw59601: > > Siard wrote: > > > hvw59601 wrote: > > > > and www.irs.gov/formspubs/index.html ? > > > > > > Those are PDFs with forms. On second thought, that's probably what > > > OP meant. But it wasn't understood as such by the other posters > >

Re: editing pdf files

2012-01-14 Thread Curt
On 2012-01-14, Siard wrote: > > Acroread should be able to do it, it's in the non-free repository. It is? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/slrnjh3n0e.

Re: editing pdf files

2012-01-14 Thread Siard
hvw59601: > Siard wrote: > > hvw59601 wrote: > > > and www.irs.gov/formspubs/index.html ? > > > > Those are PDFs with forms. On second thought, that's probably what > > OP meant. But it wasn't understood as such by the other posters > > either. > > And I also misinterpreted OP's question. Sorry.

Re: editing pdf files

2012-01-14 Thread hvw59601
Siard wrote: hvw59601 wrote: Siard wrote: John A. Sullivan III wrote: This is a real hole in the Linux desktop environment. I disagree. PDFs are not _meant_ to be edited. Even Adobe Acrobat has very limited options to edit a PDF. There are third party plugins for Acrobat that can do some more

Re: editing pdf files

2012-01-14 Thread Siard
hvw59601 wrote: > Siard wrote: > > John A. Sullivan III wrote: > > > This is a real hole in the Linux desktop environment. > > > > I disagree. PDFs are not _meant_ to be edited. Even Adobe Acrobat > > has very limited options to edit a PDF. There are third party > > plugins for Acrobat that can do

Re: editing pdf files

2012-01-14 Thread John Hasler
Hugo writes: > and http://www.irs.gov/formspubs/index.html ? Filling in blanks in forms created for the purpose is not editing to me (though it is still misuse of the PDF format). -- John Hasler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe".

Re: editing pdf files

2012-01-14 Thread CamaleĆ³n
On Fri, 13 Jan 2012 21:50:21 +, richard wrote: > Is there any free app which can edit pdf files. (...) PDFedit, but don't expect the same results/options/level of management that you would have with Acrobat Professional. When it comes to PDF edition software Adobe is nowadays "the king of

Re: editing pdf files

2012-01-14 Thread Andrew Winnenberg
On 01/13/2012 01:50 PM, richard wrote: Greetings, Is there any free app which can edit pdf files. Evince looks like it does it, you can edit, send it as an attachment and read it with another copy of evince and you can see the alterations. Open it on a poxy winblos machine with acrobat or acror

Re: editing pdf files

2012-01-14 Thread John A. Sullivan III
On Sat, 2012-01-14 at 12:01 -0600, hvw59601 wrote: > Siard wrote: > > John A. Sullivan III wrote: > >> This is a real hole in the Linux desktop environment. > > > > I disagree. PDFs are not _meant_ to be edited. Even Adobe Acrobat has > > very limited options to edit a PDF. There are third party p

Re: editing pdf files

2012-01-14 Thread John A. Sullivan III
On Sat, 2012-01-14 at 18:50 +0100, Siard wrote: > John A. Sullivan III wrote: > > This is a real hole in the Linux desktop environment. > > I disagree. PDFs are not _meant_ to be edited. Even Adobe Acrobat has > very limited options to edit a PDF. There are third party plugins for > Acrobat that c

Re: editing pdf files

2012-01-14 Thread hvw59601
Siard wrote: John A. Sullivan III wrote: This is a real hole in the Linux desktop environment. I disagree. PDFs are not _meant_ to be edited. Even Adobe Acrobat has very limited options to edit a PDF. There are third party plugins for Acrobat that can do some more editing, but it's still rathe

Re: editing pdf files

2012-01-14 Thread Siard
John A. Sullivan III wrote: > This is a real hole in the Linux desktop environment. I disagree. PDFs are not _meant_ to be edited. Even Adobe Acrobat has very limited options to edit a PDF. There are third party plugins for Acrobat that can do some more editing, but it's still rather limited. --

Re: editing pdf files

2012-01-13 Thread Joe Pfeiffer
"John A. Sullivan III" writes: > On Fri, 2012-01-13 at 21:50 +, richard wrote: >> Greetings, >> >> >> Is there any free app which can edit pdf files. >> Evince looks like it does it, you can edit, send it as an attachment and read >> it with another copy of evince and you can see the altera

Re: editing pdf files

2012-01-13 Thread richard
On Fri, 13 Jan 2012 23:20:05 +0100 Claudius Hubig wrote: > "John A. Sullivan III" wrote: > >1) OpenOffice PDF plugin - probably the best potential but it still > >sometimes chokes on some PDFs or mangles the formatting badly. > > > >2) Xournal - good and simple if you only want to add text but n

Re: editing pdf files

2012-01-13 Thread Claudius Hubig
"John A. Sullivan III" wrote: >1) OpenOffice PDF plugin - probably the best potential but it still >sometimes chokes on some PDFs or mangles the formatting badly. > >2) Xournal - good and simple if you only want to add text but nothing >beyond that. > >3) GIMP - extremely powerful and consequently

Re: editing pdf files

2012-01-13 Thread John A. Sullivan III
On Fri, 2012-01-13 at 21:50 +, richard wrote: > Greetings, > > > Is there any free app which can edit pdf files. > Evince looks like it does it, you can edit, send it as an attachment and read > it with another copy of evince and you can see the alterations. > Open it on a poxy winblos machin

editing pdf files

2012-01-13 Thread richard
Greetings, Is there any free app which can edit pdf files. Evince looks like it does it, you can edit, send it as an attachment and read it with another copy of evince and you can see the alterations. Open it on a poxy winblos machine with acrobat or acroread, and the edited sections are as the o