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Re: [Sheflug] PDF Tools
Hi All,
For PDFs we now have a ridiculous number of tools. In addition to the two
Richard mentioned I have the following installed
LibreOffice
Okular
Scribus
Xornal
PDFSam
PDFChain
PDF Slicer
PDF crack <- to remove passwords
qPDF
Ghostscript
evince
PDKtk
PDFcube
Katarakt
mupdf
gv
apvlv
xPDF
Impressive
kPDF
kGhostview We used this in 2000 to edit the magazine
There are a huge number of libraries so almost everything can output a PDF
file including Lilypad for music scores.
However I dislike PDFs. Not because they are bad but Adobe managed to put
in a little gotcha within the definition of PDF Forms which effectively
forced a document to jump back to Adobe to see if you had the latest
version. Certainly 3 years ago that was the case and almost everything any
Adobe Reader produced forced a PDF Forms element in it. That was about the
time they let the Linux reader version numbers slip. These days fortunately
LibreOffice copes and refuses the call back.
Regards
John
On Thu, 2 Feb 2023 at 15:17, Richard Ibbotson <richard@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
> Hi
>
> https://www.scarpetta.eu/pdfmixtool/
> https://github.com/pdfarranger
>
> When I started on my Debian workstation back in the 1990's you had to
> use the command line if you wanted to use PDF tools. Present day there
> is a selection of PDF desktop tools. Including LibreOffice Draw. The
> 7.5 version has just been released.
>
> --
> Richard
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