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Author: Joseph Sinclair
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Subject: Re: Write on PDFs
There are a variety of mechanisms, but one I've found to be reliable without creating huge "picture in PDF" results is as follows:
pdf2ps to convert the PDF to a PostScript file
Edit PostScript file with your preferred tool (I usually use vi, but that's the "code" view, not wysiwyg)
ps2pdf to convert the result back to PDF.

There is also a tool (semi-active development, but still somewhat buggy) PDFEdit for basic editing of PDF documents: http://sourceforge.net/projects/pdfedit/
For just adding a little text here or there, that should work and it's much easier than the method above.


On 02/23/2015 10:30 AM, Michael Havens wrote:
> How does one do it? I don't want to print one up and thenscan it back in.
> I've been told:
>
> with Scribus, you have to start a new document and create a graphics
> frame, then import the pdf file into that graphics frame. You can then
> add
> text boxes and type your text, and then export as a new pdf.
>
> well, I import the PDF but the import is blank. Is there a new way to do it?
> :-)~MIKE~(-:
>
>
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