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