Hiya,
Editing PDF:
OpenOffice.org prolly ain't the solution.
Here's an excerpted display of .pdf created in MS Office (by Maricopa County Public Records)
"Non_Comm_PRR Form.pdf"
downloaded from maricopa.gov and opened with OpenOffice.org Writer 2.3.0 Build 2.3.0.1.2
-------------------------------
%PDF-1.6
323 0 obj
<?xpacket begin="" id="W5M0MpCehiHzreSzNTczkc9d"?>
<x:xmpmeta xmlns:x="adobe:ns:meta/" x:xmptk="Adobe XMP Core 4.0-c316 44.253921, Sun Oct 01 2006 17:14:39">
<rdf:RDF xmlns:rdf="http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#">
<rdf:Description rdf:about=""
xmlns:pdf="http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/">
<pdf:Producer>Acrobat Distiller 6.0 (Windows)</pdf:Producer>
</rdf:Description>
<rdf:Description rdf:about=""
xmlns:xap="http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/">
<xap:CreateDate>2008-08-11T11:37:19-07:00</xap:CreateDate>
<xap:CreatorTool>PScript5.dll Version 5.2.2</xap:CreatorTool>
<xap:ModifyDate>2009-07-02T11:23:43-07:00</xap:ModifyDate>
<xap:MetadataDate>2009-07-02T11:23:43-07:00</xap:MetadataDate>
</rdf:Description>
<rdf:Description rdf:about=""
xmlns:xapMM="http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/">
<xapMM:DocumentID>uuid:20f42411-6fd6-4f15-b388-82c8528ccb36</xapMM:DocumentID>
<xapMM:InstanceID>uuid:506e79fe-322d-443f-8378-400151343e08</xapMM:InstanceID>
</rdf:Description>
<rdf:Description rdf:about=""
xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">
<dc:format>application/pdf</dc:format>
<dc:creator>
<rdf:Seq>
<rdf:li>redigerr</rdf:li>
</rdf:Seq>
</dc:creator>
<dc:title>
<rdf:Alt>
<rdf:li xml:lang="x-default">Microsoft Word - DD 2008-05.doc</rdf:li>
</rdf:Alt>
</dc:title>
</rdf:Description>
</rdf:RDF>
</x:xmpmeta>
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This mess seems to me to be the result of Microsoft's legal problems with "Office Open" XML.
They lost a patent suit brought by a business partner i4i regarding embedding XML
in Microsoft Word, Excel, and all the other crap Maricopa County uses.
As of last month, Microsoft must remove the stolen software from all their products.
I think there will be broken Word documents for years to come, as docx format was the default.
What about .pdf?
The above looks to me like broken external links abound too.
KPDF, KGhostView, and Krita open, display, and print it with no problems. But they don't edit.
I've used OpenOffice.org before for opening/creating pdf files with no problems, but then,
I've never included (or embedded) any hyperlinks...
OO.org > File > Open > any_local.pdf
Used to work just fine. Now it sucks.
(-: Chas.M. :-)
>
> 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 <jd@twingeckos.com> wrote:
> >
> >>
> >> On Tue, May 18, 2010 at 13:28, Craig White <craigwhite@azapple.com> 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
> >>
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