On Fri, 2007-05-04 at 15:05 -0500, Robert Derman wrote: > 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.
Yre you aware of the fact that you can select the pages to be printedin the print dialog? > 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. Yes, i know that situation. But extracting images is actually not editing the PDF...and as said...xpdf can do that. André.
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