editing pdfs

[Bryan O'Neal]

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 at twingeckos.com> wrote:
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> On Tue, May 18, 2010 at 13:28, Craig White <craigwhite at azapple.com> wrote:
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>> 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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