Brian.... incredible words of wisdom! Thank you so much. :-)~MIKE~(-: On Fri, May 31, 2013 at 6:41 PM, Brian Cluff wrote: > I forgot about a different method I recently discovered for getting an > editable, vector based, perfect copy of a PDF with open source tools. > > Install pdf2svg and convert your pdf to an svg like: > pdf2svg input.pdf output.svg 1 > Where 1 is the page number you want to edit. > > pdf2svg is one of the only programs that I have found that converts the > fonts within the PDF to vector objects. > > This will give you the most accurate version of the document while still > allowing for the document to remain vector based. > > Things to note, it does it conversion in a VERY efficient manner that can > make editing a little awkward if you don't know what is going on. > > Since all the fonts are converted to vectors, it would be very inefficient > to draw every letter over and over again so pdf2svg only create each letter > object once and then all future occurrences of it are just references to > the original letter object in a new location/size. > > This makes it so that the document won't be editable in the usual sense > where you can just select text and type what you want in it's place. > > What you can do is select whatever characters you want and delete them, > and then use inkscape to type what you want in it's place. > > If you want to edit the actual characters themselves you can find the > master letter and edit it and the changes will be copied to all other > occurrences. If you just want to edit a single letter you will have to > break the parent child relationship (Shift + Alt + D) before inkscape will > allow you to edit it. > > The pdf2svg documents don't appear to work with libreoffice's SVG filter. > It appears libreoffice doesn't support cloned objects, do the documents > import without any visible text. > > One last thing to note is that this method will also strip any other forms > from the document, so if the document used to be able to be filled out via > pdf viewers, they won't be able to after the conversion. > > Brian Cluff > > P.S. Did yo know that (Open|Libre)office are excellent at creating > electronically fillable PDF forms? So with scribus from what I hear, but > I've never used to for that purpose, so I can't verify the output. > > > On 05/30/2013 11:11 PM, Michael Havens wrote: > >> I'd swear I asked this but it isn't in the archives. Hans said something >> about acrostar but that was 7 years ago and I was wondering if anything >> new (better)has come about that allows us to input text onto a pdf. (the >> hans comment was in a thread with the words 'fillable' and 'pdf' in the >> subject) >> :-)~MIKE~(-: >> >> >> ------------------------------**--------------------- >> PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.**org >> To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: >> http://lists.phxlinux.org/**mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss >> >> > ------------------------------**--------------------- > PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.**org > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: > http://lists.phxlinux.org/**mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss >