From someone that has used Acrobat ( no, I don't mean Reader ) since
version 2.1 -
*The Mission*:
• Print Multiple Sudoku puzzles as PDF files
∘ 10 puzzles with 2 per page
• View them anywhere
• Edit them
*Tools used*:
• gnome-games.i386 1:2.22.1.1-5.fc9
• cups-pdf.i386 2.4.7-1.fc9
• cairo.i386 1.6.4-1.fc9
• evince.i386 2.22.1.1-1.fc9
• AdobeReader_enu.i486 8.1.2-1
• inkscape.i386 0.46-2.fc9
• selinux-policy.noarch 3.3.1-55.fc9 (this will make sense later)
From your tools list, it would be better to create them with
InkScape to begin with, and bypass PDF.
A PDF is not considered an editable format, even though there are
tools that allow it.
Editing PDFs gets messy quickly.
*Results*:
Printing with Cups ("Cups-PDF"):
• Prints successfully
∘ good print format options
∘ just dumps it on the desktop with some default name
∘ cups-pdf setroubleshooter unhappiness
This is configurable in /etc/cups/cups-pdf.conf
There are several options there which could solve the issues of where
the file is written, the user that writes it ( not sure about
context ), and the filename.
• Imports incorrectly in Inkscape
InkScape just got PDF editing support, it isn't going to be as good
as Adobe Acrobat.
• multiple of binary streams when viewed in text editor
A valid PDF can be binary encoded. You may not want that, but it is
valid to the specs.
Also note that a valid PDF can have edits appended to the end of the
file that over-ride something in the body, and there is a checksum
involved so a parser knows it got all the data, you can't just "cat
foo >> bar.pdf" and have it work. A PDF may look like a simple ASCII-
based format ( sometimes anyway ), but it much more complicated than
that.
Printing with Ideal Fictional Dream PDF Printer:
Print to SVG or the PDF-Mars format instead.
<http://labs.adobe.com/technologies/mars/>
Mars uses XML as the file format for PDF instead of the traditional
PDF gorp. The Mars file format uses the "zip-it-up" ODT format, and
has everything described as XML referencing each page as an SVG.
Although there are few Mars tools available right now ;)
Charles Dostale
System Admin - Silver Oaks Communications
http://www.silveroaks.com/
824 17th Street, Moline IL 61265
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