[ale] is there an open source program permitting creating/editing of PDF files ?

[Jim Philips]

The key word here is "unnoticeable". Full Adobe Acrobat will let you add
highlights and arrows and all kinds of drawn-on doodads. Is there an open
source tool that will let you do that?

On Wed, Jun 3, 2009 at 12:42 PM, James Sumners <james.sumners at gmail.com>wrote:

> Or install the CUPS PDF printer and create PDFs from any application
> that can print.
>
> PDFs aren't really meant to be edited once they are created. There is
> a plugin for OpenOffice Draw that makes it possible, but I doubt it
> works very well. A PDF is meant to be a digital representation of a
> printed document. Can you make unnoticeable edits to printed paper?
>
> On Wed, Jun 3, 2009 at 9:53 AM, Robert L. Harris
> <robert.l.harris at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> >   I use OpenOffice.org.   I can modify/store as ODT files and when I am
> > ready to send
> > it to a client I can export it as PDF.  I haven't had much luck
> > importing and editing
> > existing PDF's yet, but haven't really had the need to either.
> >
> > Robert
>
>
>
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