On Fri, 03 May 2013 19:43:55 -0400 Fred James <[email protected]> dijo:
>Mark Phillips wrote: >> I use scribus. You import the PDF as a graphic, then add text as >> needed, or whatever you need to change. Then export as a new PDF. >This is of interest to me, too ... I have Scribus 1.4.0 running on >Mageia 2, KDE4, but I cannot import a pdf, and opening a pdf is less >than satisfactory. The Cadillac program for editing PDFs is Adobe Acrobat. However, I refuse to pay the money for it, although as a graduate student at PSU I can use the graduate computer labs where the computers have it installed. I still don't use it because I can find open source solutions that have been adequate for my needs so far. If you have a problem with Scribus be sure you have the latest (1.4.2) and when you import the PDF create a graphic frame first and import the PDF into the graphic frame. This is still a kludge, however, as Scribus cannot actually edit the PDF file. You can use Scribus to place white boxes over things to "erase" them, and then more text boxes on top of that to add text, or even graphics frames to add graphics on top of the PDF. As others have noted, LibreOffice can import a text PDF and edit it, although not as well as you might think. The problem is that when a PDF is created the text is segmented into chunks that no longer flow like text in a normal text editor. Forget about line wrap and paragraphs. When faced with the need to edit a PDF I usually find it more effective to copy the elements out of the original PDF and paste them into a new document in Scribus or LibreOffice Writer, adjust and edit the text as desired, and export as a new PDF. This works well as long as the text in the original PDF is still text and has not been converted to paths, and the graphics are not locked. _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
