Hey

For most major Office Applications one has Free Linux variants, be it
Evolution, OpenOffice, TheGimp.

Has there ever been an effort to rebuild Acrobat !? It should be possible
since it based on a public Spec.

Regards, Sebastian.

Sebastian Menge wrote:
> For most major Office Applications one has Free Linux variants, be it
> Evolution, OpenOffice, TheGimp.
> 
> Has there ever been an effort to rebuild Acrobat !? It should be possible
> since it based on a public Spec.

Here are some PDF editors:
https://rnvs.informatik.tu-chemnitz.de/twiki/bin/view/Main/PdfEditingTools

You may be especially interested in low-level editing such as provided 
by PDFCanOpener and COSEdit. They're both commercial and Windows only. 
You can use the trial, if you like to speed up learning and experimenting.

The most promising open source PDF "editors" are Scribus and Inkscape. 
However, both are not native PDF editors, so they convert the data 
structures back and forth. Typically, certain PDF structures are lost 
during conversion.

You may also be interested in:
https://rnvs.informatik.tu-chemnitz.de/twiki/bin/view/Main/FreePdfUtilitiesAndLibraries

Ralf