write on a pdf

[Brian Cluff]

There are a number of programs that allow you to open and edit PDFs, but 
most of them don't handle embedded fonts, so you mileage will vary.

I used to have the best luck with running pdffonts against the PDF that 
I wanted to edit and then opening it with inkscape.  The problem is that 
inkscape only really works well with single page documents since it is 
an illustration program. With longer documents you can use libreoffice. 
  It does a slightly worse job, but handles longer documents.  Again you 
will need to install the fonts contained in your document before opening it.

The software that I recently found that does a perfect job is Master PDF 
editor:
http://code-industry.net/pdfeditor.php
It is commercial software.  It used to have a timed trial, but it looks 
like they have switched to adding a watermark to all documents until you 
pay them $49, which seems entirely reasonable to me.

Brian Cluff

On 05/30/2013 11:11 PM, Michael Havens wrote:
> I'd swear I asked this but it isn't in the archives. Hans said something
> about acrostar but that was 7 years ago and I was wondering if anything
> new (better)has come about that allows us to input text onto a pdf. (the
> hans comment was in a thread with the words 'fillable' and 'pdf' in the
> subject)
> :-)~MIKE~(-:
>
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