OT - Editing a PDF file in Windoze

[Jim March]

Use The Gimp (Windows or Linux edition) to turn the PDF into a graphic
file - note that you need to set the resolution to at least 300dpi on
import if you want it to look OK later printed out.

Do your editing as text within a graphic file, using the graphic tool
of your choice.

Save it back out as a graphic, import that as a one-page graphic into
OpenOffice, re-write it as a PDF from there.

Jim

On Fri, Sep 17, 2010 at 9:20 AM, Tim Bogart <timbogart at yahoo.com> wrote:
> All,
> I have been asked to provide information as part of a job application.  In
> the first part of the process, this was done on the web.  Now in this next
> phase, I have been asked to provide information by filling out forms.  They
> would prefer to have an electronic version of this data.  Unfortunately,
> they have sent me a document in .PDF file format.  As we all have known for
> 20 years or more, these files are normally set to disallow editing, as this
> one is.  I'm familiar with pdf2txt and the rest of the manual tools.  I
> could go to the local service bureau and print out twenty of them, but I
> don't want to spend three days doing this.  Open office doesn't seem to be
> able to open a pdf formatted file.  Does anybody know of a free (as in beer
> or freedom) application that runs on windoze that will allow me to edit this
> file?  I tried something called "Foxit" but it doesn't work as advertised.
>  You can't edit text with it.  It acts simply as a viewer.  Does anybody
> have personal experience with something that's free that actually works?
> TIA,
> -- Tim B.
>
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