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Author: JD Austin
Date:  
To: Main PLUG discussion list
Subject: Re: editing pdfs
On Tue, May 18, 2010 at 13:41, 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
>



There is a plugin (maybe more than one) :
http://extensions.services.openoffice.org/project/pdfimport
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