[OS X TeX] Search for pdf editor

[Adrian Heathcote]

Philip

In addition to Acrobat 5 there is a product from ENFOCUS called Pitstop 
5.0 professional. It will edit pdfs---but like Acrobat 5 it costs. I'm 
also not sure how independent of Distiller it is, and that, as you note, 
has not been carbonised.

Adrian Heathcote


On Thursday, March 21, 2002, at 03:55 AM, Lucien Lemmens wrote:

>
>
>> pneukom asked:
>>> I have modified and added comments to pdfs using Acrobat 4 (Classic),
>>
>> AFAIK, Adobe Acrobat, the full version, the product formerly known as
>> Exchange is the only thing which will do this.
>>
>>> and
>>> delete or rearrange content using  Canvas 8 (Carbon).  Unfortunately,
>>> Canvas' pdf filter is broken and doesn't have the ability to re-flow
>> text,
>>
>> That's a limitation of .pdf---it precisely places text, and loses the
>> concept of paragraph. Although Tailor.app in NeXTstep was able to do
>> this with .ps files, that capability has been lost, unless it's
>> preserved in OneVision's program(s), www.onevision.com
>>
>>> and add highlights.
>>
>> That's annotation
>>
>>> I don't feel like upgrading to Acrobat 5 until it is
>>> completely Carbonized.
>>
>> We're all waiting on that, but I'm not holding my breath.
>>
>> William
>>
>
> I am using at present Acrobat 5 under OSX and except for a few things 
> ( indexing and html-exporting with a plug in) everything works, 
> especially annotations. The indexing is no problem for files on the 
> hard disk because the indexing capabilities of Sherlock are organized 
> in a different way such that single folders can be indexed. (The 
> shortcoming is that I do not know how the index can be transferred to  
> CD-rom)
>
> L Lemmens
>
>
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