On 9/27/06, Xiao-Yong Jin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Anton Shterenlikht <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
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> > Lately I was sending them pdfs and got in reply some pdfs that can > only be viewed properly with the latest acrobat, and their comments > are only visible on the screen anyway and cannot at all be printed. > > So what do I do? More broadly, what is the solution for cross- > platform (*nix - windows - vms) editing of a complex document, with > lots of maths, line plots and raster images? I think any kind of mark-up file format that is open will do. Such as LaTeX. Graphics is the hard part, any way. Xiao-Yong
Maybe not here, but in some cases pdftohtml in http://sourceforge.net/projects/pdftohtml/ may help. HTML seems to be the most easily edited format across platforms, yet it is not for printing on paper. For math, MathML support or inline images may be a solution. Ah! By the way, you can see LyX at www.lyx.org. It's like a front-end to LaTeX. The version in the ports is 1.3.x, which is a bit older. (But will give you the idea.) It has a Windows version running on top of MikTeX and the version in the ports works on tetex. It's not perfect for a Word addict and may need some tutorial reading, yet much comfortable than plain LaTeX. Best. Emre _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"