editing pdfs

[Craig White]

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.
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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



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