pdf editor

[Xiao-Yong Jin]

Anton Shterenlikht <mexas at bristol.ac.uk> writes:

>> Maybe it's time to reconsider the nature of that itch?  PDF was never 
>> meant to be edited (except peripherally), and most definitely not in the 
>> sense that you're thinking.  Consider it a FINAL "print" format, like an 
>> image that's long since left the photographer, his studio and his camera 
>> and now exists only as a JPG on a hard drive.
>>  
>
> Agreed. But what if I'm writing a paper for a scientific journal
> in latex on my freebsd and my coauthors just can't be persuaded to
> use anything that's not already exist on their windows PCs? I find
> the results of latex2html or latex2rtf of poor quality (even for
> editing purposes), i.e. lots of errors, problems with references,
> etc. Maybe I need to learn how to use these tools better.
>
> 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

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