editing pdfs

[Kurt Granroth]

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 at twingeckos.com> wrote:
>   
>>
>> 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
>>