Posted by: Anonymous
[ip: 129.32.8.58]
on November 30, 2007 01:26 AM
I'd like to see a few things in the treatment of PDFs on Linux, and I'm very glad to see this project.
1) I'd like to see a GUI for dealing with N-up printing, including edge trimming. Commands like "pdfnup --nup 2x2 --paper letter --trim "1cm 0cm 0cm 1cm" document.pdf" are not all that pleasant, and (esp. in trying to figure out the degree of appropriate trim) sometimes it takes a few times to get it right.
2) PDFedit looks very useful, but it mostly stalled and crashed on my machine. (Here's a <a href="http://slashdot.org/~timothy/journal/183325">longish journal entry</a> on my experience with it.) I would dearly appreciate a PDF reader that let me smoothly highlight and annotate PDFs; in law school, this would be hugely appreciated.
p.s. Offtopic: I wish the captcha words used to prevent spam were printed MUCH larger. It's a raster image, it needn't be quite so small!
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Posted by: Anonymous [ip: 129.32.8.58] on November 30, 2007 01:26 AM1) I'd like to see a GUI for dealing with N-up printing, including edge trimming. Commands like "pdfnup --nup 2x2 --paper letter --trim "1cm 0cm 0cm 1cm" document.pdf" are not all that pleasant, and (esp. in trying to figure out the degree of appropriate trim) sometimes it takes a few times to get it right.
2) PDFedit looks very useful, but it mostly stalled and crashed on my machine. (Here's a <a href="http://slashdot.org/~timothy/journal/183325">longish journal entry</a> on my experience with it.) I would dearly appreciate a PDF reader that let me smoothly highlight and annotate PDFs; in law school, this would be hugely appreciated.
p.s. Offtopic: I wish the captcha words used to prevent spam were printed MUCH larger. It's a raster image, it needn't be quite so small!
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