Re: Editing PDF files

2010-01-05 Thread Jorge Castillo
PDF files I hope, I am not going to annoy too many people with this rather general question. I have some PDF form that I need to fill in. I thought that I would be able to accomplish the job in couple of minutes. Namely, my idea was to convert PDf file to PS file and then to use pstoedit

Re: Editing PDF files

2010-01-05 Thread ropers
2010/1/5 Predrag Punosevac punoseva...@gmail.com: I have some PDF form that I need to fill in. Just to make sure we're on the same page here, are you talking about a PDF that makes use of Adobe's PDF form field features? (Cf. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PDF#Interactive_elements and

Re: Editing PDF files

2010-01-05 Thread Predrag Punosevac
ropers rop...@gmail.com wrote: 2010/1/5 Predrag Punosevac punoseva...@gmail.com: I have some PDF form that I need to fill in. Just to make sure we're on the same page here, are you talking about a PDF that makes use of Adobe's PDF form field features? (Cf.

Re: Editing PDF files

2010-01-05 Thread Christoph Leser
Predrag Punosevac Gesendet: Dienstag, 5. Januar 2010 06:21 An: misc@openbsd.org Betreff: Editing PDF files I hope, I am not going to annoy too many people with this rather general question. I have some PDF form that I need to fill in. I thought that I would be able to accomplish the job

Re: Editing PDF files

2010-01-05 Thread ropers
2010/1/5 Predrag Punosevac punoseva...@gmail.com: ropers rop...@gmail.com wrote: 2010/1/5 Predrag Punosevac punoseva...@gmail.com: I have some PDF form that I need to fill in. Just to make sure we're on the same page here, are you talking about a PDF that makes use of Adobe's PDF form

Editing PDF files

2010-01-04 Thread Predrag Punosevac
I hope, I am not going to annoy too many people with this rather general question. I have some PDF form that I need to fill in. I thought that I would be able to accomplish the job in couple of minutes. Namely, my idea was to convert PDf file to PS file and then to use pstoedit to convert the

Re: Editing PDF files

2010-01-04 Thread Chazza
I heard that KOffice and Scribe have the ability to edit PDF file as well as Gimp. Gimp will work for short forms. I'm pretty sure Gimp necessarily converts the image to a bitmap; then you can just use the Text tool to add stuff. Then print to PDF. It's clunky but will work in a pinch.

Re: Editing PDF files

2010-01-04 Thread Predrag Punosevac
I just want to document the simplest solution for editing PDF files. Step 1: Convert the file to PostScript Step 2: Directly edit PostScript file In particular to add the text to specific position you will need to upload the file to gv and use the cursor to find the coordinates

Re: Editing PDF files

2010-01-04 Thread Antoine Jacoutot
On Tue, 5 Jan 2010, Predrag Punosevac wrote: ... What would be more claver way to accomplish above task short of buying Acrobat or using on-line PDF editing tools and exposing my private information. OpenOffice.org and enable the pdfimport extension. -- Antoine