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List:       kde-core-devel
Subject:    Re: Okular moving
From:       Wilfried Huss <Wilfried.Huss () gmx ! at>
Date:       2006-11-16 23:10:40
Message-ID: 200611170010.40599.Wilfried.Huss () gmx ! at
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Am Donnerstag, 16. November 2006 23:50 schrieb Thomas Zander:
> On Thursday 16 November 2006 23:33, Reinhold Kainhofer wrote:
> > > If you want to edit documents use real document editors (e.g. \
> > > Scribus)
> > 
> > Okay, that's off-topic now, but still:
> > So, which application does allow extraction of some pages from a larger \
> > PDF file? (Remember, PDF is *THE* file format for scientific \
> > publications!)
> -
> That should be an app like Scribus or KWord.

I've tried it now. Scribus cannot import PDF files. It can import \
Postscript files, but only the first page of the file, as this feature is \
clearly meant to place EPS graphics into the scribus documents, and not to \
edit existing documents.

Also would you really tell a person that just wants to split a big PDF file \
into two parts to learn how to use a Desktop Publishing Program? Learning \
how to do it on the console with pdftk would be far easier.

> We (KWord) have on our TODO-feature list a new PDF import filter. \
> Preferably  based on poppler.
> Anyone up for such a thing, please hop onto the KOffice lists ;

While that feature would be definitely great, it would not work for this \
purpose. If you would import a TeX generated PDF file, and edit it in \
KWord, you would end up with a Document that has "Wordprocessor \
Typesetting", which is not of the same quality.

Greetings,
Wilfried Huss


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