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Re: editing a PDF [Re: emacs 30.5.0 editing epub]
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Jean Louis |
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Re: editing a PDF [Re: emacs 30.5.0 editing epub] |
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Thu, 23 Mar 2023 12:36:22 +0300 |
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Mutt/2.2.9+54 (af2080d) (2022-11-21) |
* Bob Newell <bobnewell@bobnewell.net> [2023-03-22 21:49]:
> I get sent PDFs all the time and it's often frustrating.
> However most of the time I need the text, not necessarily the
> formatting. For that, there are various PDF to text
> converters which work to some degree (not so great with
> multi-column text for the most part).
Following references may be helpful to some people thinking to use
multi-column text in Emacs:
There is (info "(emacs) Two-Column") in Emacs manual.
Example output produced by using RCD Paps packag for Emacs:
https://gnu.support/files/emacs/packages/rcd-paps/2023/03/2023-03-23/2023-03-23-12:27:05.pdf
GNU Emacs package: rcd-paps.el:
https://gnu.support/gnu-emacs/packages/GNU-Emacs-package-rcd-paps-el-76862.html
Any Emacs printing can produce such pages.
> I realize this doesn't at all address the original question
> about editing PDFs in the true sense of editing. But in a lot
> of cases text extraction may be good enough, depending on your
> purpose.
LibreaOffice Draw -- open PDF file and you will see you can edit many
things.
Okular -- you can annotate and insert text
Scribus and Xournal
--
Jean
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- Re: FOSS replacement for PDF [Re: editing a PDF], (continued)
- Re: editing a PDF [Re: emacs 30.5.0 editing epub], Michael Heerdegen, 2023/03/28
- Re: editing a PDF [Re: emacs 30.5.0 editing epub], Jean Louis, 2023/03/22
- Re: editing a PDF [Re: emacs 30.5.0 editing epub], address@hidden, 2023/03/22
- Re: editing a PDF [Re: emacs 30.5.0 editing epub], Emanuel Berg, 2023/03/22
- Re: editing a PDF [Re: emacs 30.5.0 editing epub], Yuri Khan, 2023/03/22
- Re: editing a PDF [Re: emacs 30.5.0 editing epub], Bob Newell, 2023/03/22
- Re: editing a PDF [Re: emacs 30.5.0 editing epub],
Jean Louis <=
- Re: editing a PDF [Re: emacs 30.5.0 editing epub], Bob Newell, 2023/03/23
- Re: editing a PDF [Re: emacs 30.5.0 editing epub], Jean Louis, 2023/03/23
- Re: editing a PDF [Re: emacs 30.5.0 editing epub], Michael Heerdegen, 2023/03/23
- Re: editing a PDF [Re: emacs 30.5.0 editing epub], Emanuel Berg, 2023/03/23
- Re: editing a PDF [Re: emacs 30.5.0 editing epub], Emanuel Berg, 2023/03/23
Re: emacs 30.5.0 editing epub, Stephen Berman, 2023/03/16