Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Draw

Robert,
Thanks for that comment on Evince for Windows.  It's "lighter" as in less
cluttered than Sumatra and includes a useful Annotations feature.

On Mon, Jun 6, 2016 at 7:45 PM, Robert Funnell <robert.funnell@mcgill.ca>
wrote:

> David -
>
> Evince, mentioned by Bruce, also works under Windows.
>
> - Robert
>
>
> On Mon, 6 Jun 2016, DavidBTeagueAt Comporium.net wrote:
>
> Thank you Harvey, Stuart, and Bruce for useful information and suggestions.
> > I am a long time user of OO.org & LO, from the time of Star Office before
> > Sun. I am not a "power user" though I am a long time user.
> > I will investigate the pdf packages suggested.
> > With warmest regard
> > David
> >
> > On 6/6/2016 3:07 PM, Harvey Nimmo wrote:
> >
> > >  I find Master pdf Editor to be a useful tool. It is free form non
> > >  -commercial use. It can be a wee bit slow on my Linux openSUSE Leap
> > >  42.1 but has many features that you may have seen in Adobe Pro, and is
> > >  also available for Windows. See
> > >  https://code-industry.net/masterpdfeditor.
> > >  Cheers
> > >  Harvey
> > >  On Mon, 2016-06-06 at 11:49 -0700, V Stuart Foote wrote:
> > > >  DavidBTeagueAt Comporium.net wrote
> > > > >  In my search  for a cross platform (Linux/Windows) and preferably
> > > > >  GPL/free pdf reader.  I found that Draw does very well.
> > > > > > >  1) I would like an easy/easier way to move page to page in Draw.
> > > > > > >  2) Is there a way to do this?
> > > >  Draw is a component of the full LibreOffice suite, and  is not
> > > >  intended to
> > > >  be installed individually--although some Linux distros attempt to do
> > > >  that.
> > > > >  Draw is not a PDF editor or reader. It will perform a filter driven
> > > >  import
> > > >  of PDF as pages in a ODF Draw document converting content of the PDF
> > > >  to Draw
> > > >  objects.  Some PDF features implemented by Adobe are simply not
> > > >  implemented.
> > > > >  On export from Draw, or Writer or Impress or Math--filters are again
> > > >  used to
> > > >  render the content back into PDF--mostly compliant with PDF 1.5 spec
> > > >  with
> > > >  some additional options.
> > > > >  Once imported into LibreOffice (default is Draw, but filter import
> > > to
> > > >  Writer
> > > >  and Impress is also supported),  focus in the "Pages" frame allows
> > > >  movment
> > > >  between pages with PgDn and PgUp keys.
> > > > >  YMMV -- and please  accept this is the way LibreOffice (ApacheOpen
> > > >  Office
> > > >  and OpenOffice before) interact with PDF.
> > > > >  So if you can live with that, enjoy!
> > > > >  Stuart
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