Yep. Linux (and OSS in general) is really lacking anything resembling a decent PDF editor. I searched high and low a few months ago and came up short. I ended up having to switch to a closed-source solution on OS X (PDF Pen). On 05/18/2010 01:41 PM, Bryan O'Neal wrote: > I know how to export a PDF out of OO but how do you import a PDF for editing? > > If you don't mind windows / closed source I use PDF Exchange. If the > doc is only a 1 page doc you could try inkscape but you may have > issues with the hyperlink. If you find a solid OSS solution please > let us know as I have been casually looking for years. > > On Tue, May 18, 2010 at 1:32 PM, JD Austin wrote: > >> >> On Tue, May 18, 2010 at 13:28, Craig White wrote: >> >>> On Tue, 2010-05-18 at 13:13 -0700, Ariel Gold wrote: >>> >>>> I'm trying to edit a pdf to delete, change, and add text and >>>> hyperlinks. ANyone recommend how to do this? >>>> >>>> I've tried pdfedit, but I couldn't figure it out, and the >>>> documentation didn't seem to address how to add a link.. Installed >>>> through ubuntu karmic repository. Thought a newer version might help >>>> so I downloaded source and get this error on ./configure >>>> >>>> checking if zlib is wanted... configure: error: libz not found >>>> >>>> If someone can help me get pdfedit to do what I want, or suggest >>>> another tool that would be great. >>>> >>> ---- >>> pdfedit is probably it though last time I checked, it was fairly weak >>> and frustrating and it seems that for straight editing, Acrobat >>> Professional is probably the only game in town. >>> >>> That said, you can generally open up PDF's in OpenOffice, edit and then >>> save it again as a PDF so you might want to see if that works for you. >>> >>> Then there is pdftk which seems to be available in most distributions >>> which is an extremely handy toolkit but it doesn't add text/hyperlinks >>> unless you use 'forms' and use pdftk to insert form data (FDF). >>> >>> Craig >>> >>> >> Open Office will let you convert/edit pdfs but sometimes chokes on fonts. >> Also I believe Scribus can edit pdfs. >> JD >> --------------------------------------------------- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss