Others (like me, and probably the op), use the pdf-format intensively - 90% of what I read as part of my work is pdf-format. I believe that's why all those references to apps that are essentially graphics apps but pretty useless as reading aids. There are those who are never going to need more than a reasonable pdf-reader (this could basically be any of the existing ones). Openoffice promises acrobat writer like features for version 3. The new Zend-framework lets you import pdf into webapps. The pdf-format itself is open and a lot of implementations are trickeling out at the moment. it's great to see the work being done in this area, and I imagine we're there soon. And the imported page is meant for graphics editing not reading.īut sure. Nice as it is Inkscape lets you import 1 (one) page at a time. PDF studio, from a superficial view appears to be fill a need in linux, commecial or not. I too am sorry if I sound off putting ) And thanks for the link.Īs far as I can see Inkscape does absolutely not fill the gap. Sorry to sound like I'm putting you down, but there is always an open source answer. I tested it in my Ubuntu 7.10 and found all its features to be fully compatable with Adobe Acrobat - when I created highligting or notes in Qoppa PDF Editor and then opened it inside Adobe Acrobat 7, all of the highlighting and notes were intact! Great! Perhaps more researchers and students can switch to Linux now that a good PDF tool that allows highlighting and comments is available! The program is written in JAVA and there are versions for Linux, Mac and Windows so you can use the same program on WinXP and Linux if you are dual booting. scan to PDF (can scan and insert directly into a PDF document), Qoppa PDF Editor offers a lot of features including: After a very long search, I finally found a full-featured program that allows me to edit PDF files.

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