On 05/31/2011 10:52 PM, John Jason Jordan wrote: > On Tue, 31 May 2011 21:20:18 -0700 > Tim Wescott<[email protected]> dijo: > >> On 05/26/2011 04:53 PM, John Jason Jordan wrote: >>> On Thu, 26 May 2011 16:41:47 -0700 >>> Mark Phillips<[email protected]> dijo: >>> >>>> I have found Scribus to be the best. It is not a pdf editor per se, >>>> but if you want to add information to a pdf file, you bring the pdf >>>> in as an image then insert text fields in the places you want to add >>>> text. Can also add graphics, or make drawings, etc. Then export as a >>>> pdf and it is all there in one pdf. Works well for filling out >>>> forms, signing pdfs, etc. I never could get pdfedit to work for me, >>>> and gimp is harder to deal with than Scribus. It is in the Debian >>>> repository, so I assume it is in others. >>> Scribus is what I used to use until I found xournal. You open the >>> PDF in xournal, then you can add text, lines, objects and shading, >>> among a few other things. You can save it as an xournal file, or as >>> a new PDF. And xournal pays little attention to restrictions in the >>> original PDF file. It's just a simple little light applet that works >>> perfectly for filling out PDF forms, whether the PDF was created to >>> be editable or not. >> You add objects as in graphics? I can't see how to do this. (xournal >> 0.4.5, on Ubuntu 8.04). > No, xournal cannot add graphics. You can make your own "graphics" with > xournal - shapes, lines, etc. But you cannot import graphics from > outside. Xournal is mostly designed for markup. If you have a form to > fill out that the creator stupidly did not make as an editable PDF > xournal lets you enter text boxes over the blanks. You can also > highlight and a few other things. But it can only add its own native > objects. I can stop looking, then. > If I need to add a graphic on top of a PDF I use Scribus. There may be > other, simpler tools that will do so, but since I know Scribus it's > simpler for the rare times I need to add a graphic to a PDF. > > And note that neither xournal nor Scribus can actually edit the PDF. > All they can do is open the PDF and let you place things on top of the > PDF, then resave as a new PDF. That part is OK -- I'm electronically replicating the "print it out, sign it, scan it in, email it" routine with new contracts. All I need in the end is a facsimile of the original document with my signature attached, that I can email to a client.
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