Publishing for IEEE 802 -- PDF, Framemaker, and Visio

[Robert Moskowitz]

On 12/11/2011 09:01 AM, Alan Cox wrote:
>> But now I will need to produce and edit PDFs.  All diagrams MUST be in
> You can't meaningfully edit a PDF - its a print format. It's really
> output not input (except maybe to things like printers). Openoffice
> happily generates pdf documents, it's quite good at it in fact.

Can Oo import PDFs? Can it merge multiple PDFs into one?
>
>> Visio format (IEEE requirement).  802.11 requires use of Framemaker
>> (fortunately, though this is 802.15 and they are not so locked in.  yet).
> Visio has two formats it generally uses. VDX is the newer 'XML' format
> and Dia can import and export VDX files.

I will check to see what format IEEE requires. What is Dia?

>
>> So I am looking for some decent pdf and visio tools to use on my new f16
>> system.  And I am quite the basic typer/drawer.
>
> Alan
>