editing pdfs

[JD Austin]

On Tue, May 18, 2010 at 13:28, Craig White <craigwhite at 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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