André Wyrwa wrote:
Hei Lars,
thanks for your detailed reply. I think we agree on most stuff, and i'm
short on time right now, so i'll just give you the pointers to the
software i know of:
b) There are already OpenSouce solutions that can do quite a bit of PDF
editing.
Can you point to a few? I've been curious to find one that will allow
manipulation of the document's metadata. I checked the Adobe sites and
related newsgroups a few years ago and found no useful info regarding that
or even an API for C or Perl.
- http://pdfedit.petricek.net/pdfedit.index_e (linux)
- http://www.spaceblue.com/pdfblender/ (windows)
- http://www.pdfforge.org/products/pdfcreator (windows)
That's all i know of at this point.
There's another package that i falsely remembered to be opensource, but
it has a freeware version:
- http://www.pdf995.com/index.html
Plus, as mentioned before, xpdf can do some pdf conversions and i bet
the kwrite functionalities are based on that.
André.
I would like to be able to edit PDF files for at least two reasons,
first, I often get manuals in PDF format that I would like to print out,
but they have far too many pages. I don't want to use 180 sheets of
paper for a manual that has about 40 pages that I actually need.
Second, I often download brochures that have Photos of products that I
need for my own customer catalogs, so I need to be able to extract them
and paste them in my catalogs.
