On 26/06/12 09:22, Brett Parker wrote:
On 25 Jun 17:58, Bev Nicolson wrote:
Evince is great for what it does, imo, but you can't extract pages with it. Does anyone round here know of a good alternative to the full-fat, all singing all dancing but not very cheap Adobe? Does such a thing exist?
If all you want to do is extract certain pages, then, erm, how about pdftk?
Bev, I believe it has been traditional for Linux developers to make tools that do one thing, and do it well, whereas, in the wacky world of Windows (WWW!) there's much more emphasis on the number of features a program has - i.e. Word must be better than Wordstar because it has three times as many functions.
Consequently, I don't think you're going to get very far trying to find a program that does all, or even most of the things that "Adobe" does. Come to think of it - which "Adobe" are you talking about? The reader - which is free, or the creator, which isn't??
What is it that you're actually trying to do? If it's just extracting pages from a PDF, then I've used PDF Chain, PDF Mod and PDF-Shuffler. If it's something else, then what is it?
Hope that helps! Steve