[ale] PDF editor

[Greg Freemyer]

Reviving a very old thread, but what's 3 years to some of the old
timers on this list!

Anyway, I would like to have a pdf editor.

I just tried kword and as Tim said 3 years ago it loses a lot of formating.

Anyone know of any new options in the last 3 years.

FYI: I tried OO which I thought would now edit pdfs, but I don't see a
way to do it.

Greg

On Wed, Feb 1, 2006 at 1:23 PM, Tim Watts <timtw at earthlink.net> wrote:
> Wow. This ought to fill that hole :-)  But alas, while KWord does import pdfs,
> much of the formatting gets lost. I'll try some of the other suggestions.
>
> Thanks Keith!
>
> On Wednesday 01 February 2006 10:26, Watson, Keith R wrote:
>> > -----Original Message-----
>> > From: ale-bounces at ale.org [mailto:ale-bounces at ale.org] On Behalf Of
>>
>> Brian
>>
>> > MacLeod
>> > Sent: Tuesday, January 31, 2006 16:02
>> > To: Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts
>> > Subject: Re: [ale] PDF editor
>> >
>> >     > You have hot on a big hole in Linux system: PDF editing.
>> >     >
>> >     > That is still the realm of Adobe software only.
>> >     >
>> >     > There are a few windows products that will take a pdf and
>>
>> convert
>>
>> > it
>> >     to
>> >
>> >     > a word doc for editing. I have not tested any of those under
>>
>> wine
>>
>> > (or
>> >
>> >     > windows, for that matter).
>> >
>> > If this only on occasion:
>> > pdf2ps
>> > Edit with GIMP
>> > ps2pdf
>> >
>> > ...might be workable.
>> >
>> > But since most PDFs people would wish to edit contain text and
>>
>> formatting,
>>
>> > it probably isn't what your are looking for, despite being free...
>> >
>> > bnm
>>
>> KWord may import PDFs directly
>>
>> >From the FAQ
>>
>> "Please note that in KOffice 1.4, it is recommended to save as RTF (Rich
>> Text Format) to exchange with MS-Word. (PDF can be a good file format
>> too for importing into KWord.)"
>>
>> http://www.koffice.org/faq/
>>
>>
>> Scribus imports PDFs so it might be able to edit them
>> http://docs.scribus.net/
>>
>>
>> This site talks about PDFs on Linux including editing them
>> http://www.marcprior.de/linux/misc/pdf.html
>>
>>
>> Here's another interesting way to do it on Linux
>> http://applications.linux.com/article.pl?sid=05/01/06/0612209&tid=49&tid
>> =47
>>
>>
>> There's an O'Reilly book on hacking PDFs. There's and entry in the TOC
>> for editing PDFs for Free. Your local library may have a copy.
>> http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/pdfhks/
>>
>>
>> Pdftk - the GPL pdf tool kit and it runs on Linux but it only allows
>> limited editing.
>> http://www.accesspdf.com/pdftk/index.html
>>
>>
>> This site is all about PDF hacking
>> http://www.accesspdf.com/index.php
>>
>>
>> This is a rather brute force way of doing it
>> http://alan.aspuru.com/archives/2005/12/26/how-to-edit-a-pdf-file-in-lin
>> ux/
>>
>>
>> Here's a free on but it runs under windows
>> http://www.pdf995.com/
>>
>>
>> This is an interesting way to do it on Linux
>> http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2004/11/msg01995.html
>>
>>
>> happy editing,
>> keith
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