On 05/03/2013 01:44 PM, Marvin Kosmal wrote: > Hi > > I think I asked this before and can't remember the answer.. > > I need to edit a PDF document. What application can I use. > > I am running Ubuntu 12.04 > > TIA > > Marvin _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing > list [email protected] > http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug . >
PDF is not really a word processor format, more of a final output format for screen and printers. Adobe has their pricey editor but reversed engineered software is going to be hard to find. Essentially, when creating PDFs, you always work from a non-pdf source (word processor, etc) and export to pdf the final copy - analogous to printing - so that who ever you give the pdf to can view/print on anything device withour needing your particular software. If someone gives you a pdf, and you need to edit it, you should really ask for the original source file. On Linux it is easy enough to view, print, annotate, but the solutions (Libreoffice/Openoffice, Scribus, etc) are not going to work very well in most cases, especially not if there is any pdf security set. xpdf has some tools to convert (see you repo and http://www.foolabs.com/xpdf/home.html ) You might also try: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PDFedit <- This might be nice. http://pdftohtml.sourceforge.net/ http://www.pstoedit.net/pstoedit/ That said, GIMP and Libreoffice 4 can work, but after import you should first save as a native format and edit that, then, once done, export to pdf. I find Libreoffice Draw a bit easier to use for this than GIMP. _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
