On Fri, 2003-08-15 at 21:05, Bijan Soleymani wrote: > On Fri, Aug 15, 2003 at 08:43:24PM -0500, John Foster wrote: > > I want to locate an editor that will run on Linux that will handle .pdf > > flie format. I really am only interested in one with a WYSIWYG GUI > > frontend. I just tried kile & it seeems to be partially there but does > > not appear to have a WYSIWYG mode for its editor. Anyone have any > > suggestions? Commercial is OK. > > This is a common question. It's kind of funny really. Almost every > single Unix/Gnu/Linux editor in the world can output to PostScript > (.ps), and there are several program that will convert ps to pdf. So use > any WYSYWYGY editor you want and then print to a ps file. Then run > ps2pdf on that file. > > One of the most WISIGY is OpenOffice.org (if it's not available in your > version of Debian (might not be in stable yet) you can download it from > openoffice.org), in my experience it's about as good as Microsoft > Office. It even handles reading and writing Microsoft Office documents > reasonably well. I've heard that recent versions even allow you to > output *directly* to *pdf*. > > P.S. pdf is an output format. You can edit pdf directly, but it's kind > of dirty :) It's like instead of using vector graphics software > (sodipodi) or diagram drawing software (dia, visio) and then saving as > jpeg or tiff, you edit jpeg or tiff directly (using the gimp). Doing > that isn't necessarily wrong, but in most cases it's too low level.
The OOo 1.1b debs are located here, if you are running sarge or sid: deb http://ftp.freenet.de/pub/ftp.vpn-junkies.de/openoffice/ \ unstable main contrib However, OOo 1.1b only outputs pdf, and thus is unable to edit them. -- +---------------------------------------------------------------+ | Ron Johnson, Jr. Home: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | Jefferson, LA USA | | | | "Man, I'm pretty. Hoo Hah!" | | Johnny Bravo | +---------------------------------------------------------------+ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
