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Re: Re: Awesome PDF writer

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  • Subject: [mg64373] Re: [mg64354] Re: [mg64337] Awesome PDF writer
  • From: Ed Peschko <esp5 at pge.com>
  • Date: Tue, 14 Feb 2006 01:31:56 -0500 (EST)
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On Mon, Feb 13, 2006 at 03:15:19AM -0500, David Annetts wrote:
> Hi Paul,
> 
> > For those that have tried to create quality PDFs from 
> > Mathematica using Adobe, it can be a disappointing 
> > experience.  Some things are handled well, some are not.
> > The same can be said for postscript -> Ghostview -> PDF.
> > 
> > I found a free PDF printer driver that has worked incredible so far.
> > 
> > http://www.primopdf.com/
> > 
> > 
> > It is free as in FREE.  No popups.  Although it only works 
> > under windows, it seems to work exceptionally well so far.
> 
> Just by way of information, there is also PDFCreator
> (http://sourceforge.net/projects/pdfcreator/).  It's open source and has
> worked very well as a Windows printer for a few years now.
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Dave.
> 

hey all,

I'm wondering if there is an equivalent PDF editor - the problem IMO with
the printer drivers above is AFAICT they create PDF black boxes, not 
documents that you can edit.

Does anyone know of a decent PDF editor along the above lines?

Ed


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