Okular moving (.pdf page manipulation capability)

Hans Meine hans_meine at gmx.net
Thu Nov 30 15:23:32 GMT 2006


On Wednesday, 29. November 2006 22:43, Kuba Ober wrote:
> > > If you want a _real_ editor you need an abstract document layout which
> > > is loaded by the PDF parser and can be written back to file by a PDF
> > > writer (neither the abstract document format nor the PDF writer exists
> > > for Linux yet).
> >
> > I don't think we need a _real_ PDF editor, but rather an application that
> > is able to do the most basic modifications, like
> >   -) extracting pages,
> >   -) reordering pages,
> >   -) turning some pages,
>
> I'd add to that:
> - copying pages (extension on reordering)
> - cropping and resizing pages
> - changing the "canvas" size of a page
> - pasting a cropped & resized page on an elarged canvas of an existing one

This all sounds nice, but I hope you all agree that this is no "viewer" 
functionality anymore.  And surely it should not be loaded by default, but be 
accessible through a plugin, especially for ReadOnlyParts.

In terms of "features I'd like to have available somehow", I fully agree.

Ciao, /  /
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