Subject: Re: [Techtalk] Editing a PDF file

[Terri Oda]

Is there some legal reason that no one's written an open source PDF 
editor?  PDF is also an open format, as far as I know (the specs are 
available on Adobe's website).

I attended a lecture earlier this year by a professor who mentioned 
that this is definitely missing in the open source world.  pdf2ps and 
ps2pdf just don't cut it. (ps2pdf caused a pretty nasty loss of quality 
in all the documents I've tried it on, although I'll admit I've avoided 
using it for nearly a year now so *maybe* it's improved.)  I fake it 
all by printing to pdf on my mac, but it'd be handy to be able to make 
notes in documents the way you can with Acrobat...

I'm not quite motivated enough to write it myself yet, but I'd love to 
know if there's anyone working on such a thing, even if it's not ready 
yet.  Acrobat is really quite a nice program and I'd love to have 
something with some of that functionality available in an open source 
package...

  Terri