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| From | Peter Flynn <peter@silmaril.ie> |
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| Newsgroups | alt.comp.os.windows-11, comp.editors, comp.text.pdf, alt.comp.os.windows-10 |
| Subject | Re: What is the best free software for creating & editing PDFs nowadays |
| Date | 2025-03-04 22:32 +0000 |
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On 04/03/2025 03:31, Marion wrote:
> On Mon, 3 Mar 2025 21:38:56 +0000, Peter Flynn wrote :
[snip]
> Given LaTeX is the de facto standard for creating mathematical and
> scientific documents, I agree with you that it belongs as a line item.
[...]> Contrasting with those programming libraries (which require
programming
> code), LaTeX is a markup language and typesetting system. We write the
> document's content and structure using LaTeX commands, and LaTeX handles
> the visual formatting to PDF.
There are two routes to PDF if you have XML documents (increasingly
common; and both Word and Libre Office are XML inside). Both use
Extensible Stylesheet Language (XSL) but in different ways
But these may be well outside the scope of your list as they are
two-stage processes.
• XSL-FO uses XSL to describe the transformation to Formatting Objects
(FO) and an FO processor converts that to PDF
• XSLT uses XSL to describe the transformation to any text format,
including LaTeX, which can then produce PDF.
XSL-FO is no longer being developed by the W3C; however both methods are
in common use in publishing.
> So I won't include the programming libraries in that new line, for now.
> Does that clarify the two lines better for 'creating' & 'generating' PDF?
>
> [x] Add text to existing pdf (Irfanview or Paint.NET plugins + Ghostscript)
> [x] Generate complex PDF using markup language (LaTeX via pdfTeX or LuaTeX)
Yes, that looks fine, thanks.
Peter
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Re: What is the best free software for creating & editing PDFs nowadays Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2025-02-28 21:00 +0000
Re: What is the best free software for creating & editing PDFs nowadays Marion <marion@facts.com> - 2025-02-28 23:56 +0000
Re: What is the best free software for creating & editing PDFs nowadays Marion <marion@facts.com> - 2025-03-01 00:21 +0000
Re: What is the best free software for creating & editing PDFs nowadays Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2025-03-01 02:53 +0000
Re: What is the best free software for creating & editing PDFs nowadays Marion <marion@facts.com> - 2025-03-01 06:24 +0000
Re: What is the best free software for creating & editing PDFs nowadays Marion <marion@facts.com> - 2025-03-01 06:49 +0000
Re: What is the best free software for creating & editing PDFs nowadays Marion <marion@facts.com> - 2025-03-01 07:21 +0000
Re: What is the best free software for creating & editing PDFs nowadays Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2025-03-01 20:23 +0000
Re: What is the best free software for creating & editing PDFs nowadays Marion <marion@facts.com> - 2025-03-02 03:18 +0000
Re: What is the best free software for creating & editing PDFs nowadays Peter Flynn <peter@silmaril.ie> - 2025-03-03 21:38 +0000
Re: What is the best free software for creating & editing PDFs nowadays Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2025-03-03 23:35 +0000
Re: What is the best free software for creating & editing PDFs nowadays Marion <marion@facts.com> - 2025-03-04 02:35 +0000
Re: What is the best free software for creating & editing PDFs nowadays Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2025-03-04 03:13 +0000
Re: What is the best free software for creating & editing PDFs nowadays Marion <marion@facts.com> - 2025-03-04 03:31 +0000
Re: What is the best free software for creating & editing PDFs nowadays "Carlos E.R." <robin_listas@es.invalid> - 2025-03-04 20:18 +0100
Re: What is the best free software for creating & editing PDFs nowadays Peter Flynn <peter@silmaril.ie> - 2025-03-04 22:32 +0000
Re: What is the best free software for creating & editing PDFs nowadays Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2025-03-04 23:32 +0000
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