Tag: pdf

27 May 2008

PDF Editing in Linux

The Tree-Friendly Academic: Whither A Useful Free PDF Editor?
I’m a Linux user in need of a quality PDF reader with basic annotation tools, and I need it to be available for free. Think I’m asking for too much?
We’re at a point where the level of content available online dwarfs our ability to print it all [...]

27 Mar 2008

Gabriel Endorses Textbook Piracy, DjVu >? PDF

Well, basically he does. With the way textbook prices are these days, it is hard to disagree. However, I have a few comments on his recommendation for DjVu over CHM over PDF.
Let’s discuss CHM for a moment. All it is is a compilation of HTML data (images and html text) into a proprietary, hard to [...]