Re: [PLUG] Edit PDF

2024-01-29 Thread Rich Shepard 

On Mon, 29 Jan 2024, Charles Sliger wrote:


You basically have to do the layout and formatting manually. I use it
frequently to edit invoices and receipts that come in pdf form so that
they print on a single page. I change the page layout to landscape, use
snap lines, change font size, etc.


Charles,

Take a look at pdfjam. The man page begins with
pdfjam(1)   
 pdfjam(1)

NAME
   pdfjam - A shell script for manipulating PDF files

SYNOPSIS
   pdfjam [OPTION [OPTION] ...] [SRC [PAGESPEC] [SRC [PAGESPEC]] ...]

DESCRIPTION
   pdfjam  provides  a  front  end  to most capabilities of the "pdfpages" 
package (by
   Andreas Matthias) of pdflatex.  Detailed  information  can  be  found  via  
"pdfjam
   --help", and also in the web page mentioned below .

   A working installation of pdflatex, with the pdfpages package, is 
required.

   The  pdfjam  script  is  distributed as (the main) part of the pdfjam 
package.  The
   homepage of pdfjam is at https://github.com/rrthomas/pdfjam .

SETUP
   See https://github.com/rrthomas/pdfjam

I use it to resize PDF web page downloads to letter size, and a few other
things.

Regards,

Rich

Re: [PLUG] Edit PDF

2024-01-29 Thread mo 
Yes masterpdf is way better then.

On Mon, Jan 29, 2024, 08:40 Charles Sliger  wrote:

> Not really. :)
> You have to put newlines in.
> You basically have to do the layout and formatting manually.
> I use it frequently to edit invoices and receipts that come in pdf form
> so that they print on a single page.
> I change the page layout to landscape, use snap lines, change font
> size, etc.
> --
> -chaz
> Charles Sliger
> "No matter where you go... There you are... Buckaroo Banzai"
>
>
>
> On Sun, 2024-01-28 at 11:15 -0800, mo wrote:
> > Libreoffice draw can edit the text already on a PDF? Does it
> > automatically
> > adhere to text cell borders aka wrap the text as expected?
> >
> > On Sun, Jan 28, 2024, 09:50 Charles Sliger 
> > wrote:
> >
> > >
> > > For quick, simple edits, I use LibreOffice Draw.
> > > You can open a pdf, move things around, edit text, etc.
> > > When you're done, just choose 'Export as PDF" from the "File" menu.
> > > --
> > > -chaz
> > > Charles Sliger
> > > "No matter where you go... There you are... Buckaroo Banzai"
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > On Sat, 2024-01-27 at 16:44 -0800, VY wrote:
> > > >
> > > > Dear All
> > > >
> > > > I am looking for some tools on Linux I can use to edit PDF
> > > > documents.
> > > > Any recommendation much appreciated!
> > > >
> > > > Thanks
> > > >
> > > > -Vincent
>

Re: [PLUG] Edit PDF

2024-01-29 Thread Charles Sliger 
Not really. :)
You have to put newlines in.
You basically have to do the layout and formatting manually.
I use it frequently to edit invoices and receipts that come in pdf form
so that they print on a single page.
I change the page layout to landscape, use snap lines, change font
size, etc.
-- 
-chaz
Charles Sliger
"No matter where you go... There you are... Buckaroo Banzai"



On Sun, 2024-01-28 at 11:15 -0800, mo wrote:
> Libreoffice draw can edit the text already on a PDF? Does it
> automatically
> adhere to text cell borders aka wrap the text as expected?
> 
> On Sun, Jan 28, 2024, 09:50 Charles Sliger 
> wrote:
> 
> > 
> > For quick, simple edits, I use LibreOffice Draw.
> > You can open a pdf, move things around, edit text, etc.
> > When you're done, just choose 'Export as PDF" from the "File" menu.
> > --
> > -chaz
> > Charles Sliger
> > "No matter where you go... There you are... Buckaroo Banzai"
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > On Sat, 2024-01-27 at 16:44 -0800, VY wrote:
> > > 
> > > Dear All
> > > 
> > > I am looking for some tools on Linux I can use to edit PDF
> > > documents.
> > > Any recommendation much appreciated!
> > > 
> > > Thanks
> > > 
> > > -Vincent

Re: [PLUG] Edit PDF

2024-01-28 Thread mo 
Libreoffice draw can edit the text already on a PDF? Does it automatically
adhere to text cell borders aka wrap the text as expected?

On Sun, Jan 28, 2024, 09:50 Charles Sliger  wrote:

> For quick, simple edits, I use LibreOffice Draw.
> You can open a pdf, move things around, edit text, etc.
> When you're done, just choose 'Export as PDF" from the "File" menu.
> --
> -chaz
> Charles Sliger
> "No matter where you go... There you are... Buckaroo Banzai"
>
>
>
> On Sat, 2024-01-27 at 16:44 -0800, VY wrote:
> > Dear All
> >
> > I am looking for some tools on Linux I can use to edit PDF documents.
> > Any recommendation much appreciated!
> >
> > Thanks
> >
> > -Vincent
>

Re: [PLUG] Edit PDF

2024-01-28 Thread Charles Sliger 
For quick, simple edits, I use LibreOffice Draw.
You can open a pdf, move things around, edit text, etc.
When you're done, just choose 'Export as PDF" from the "File" menu.
-- 
-chaz
Charles Sliger
"No matter where you go... There you are... Buckaroo Banzai"



On Sat, 2024-01-27 at 16:44 -0800, VY wrote:
> Dear All
> 
> I am looking for some tools on Linux I can use to edit PDF documents.
> Any recommendation much appreciated!
> 
> Thanks
> 
> -Vincent

Re: [PLUG] Edit PDF

2024-01-28 Thread Rich Shepard 

On Sat, 27 Jan 2024, mo wrote:


Nothing beats Master PDF


+1 MasterPDFEditor 

I've been using the free version for years.

Rich

Re: [PLUG] Edit PDF

2024-01-27 Thread mo 
I use v4 not v5. That way FOSS & no watermark from editing & almost all
same features.

I can post my install script if you want how I did it on Siduction. I've
been using it for 7+ yrs like this. Of course it's small fee for v5
license, nothing exorbitant.

On Sat, Jan 27, 2024, 18:34 MC_Sequoia  wrote:

>
>
> > "Nothing beats Master PDF"
> >
> > Yes, for the commercial ($) version, but no for the FOSS version.
> >
> > https://code-industry.net/free-pdf-editor/
>
> I  also couldn't get it run after installing the .deb file w. gdebi on my
> Debian 11 Bullseye system. =(
>

Re: [PLUG] Edit PDF

2024-01-27 Thread VY 
Thanks for all the replies.  Will try out these options



On Sat, Jan 27, 2024, 18:35 MC_Sequoia  wrote:

>
>
> > "Nothing beats Master PDF"
> >
> > Yes, for the commercial ($) version, but no for the FOSS version.
> >
> > https://code-industry.net/free-pdf-editor/
>
> I  also couldn't get it run after installing the .deb file w. gdebi on my
> Debian 11 Bullseye system. =(
>

Re: [PLUG] Edit PDF

2024-01-27 Thread MC_Sequoia 



> "Nothing beats Master PDF"
> 
> Yes, for the commercial ($) version, but no for the FOSS version.
> 
> https://code-industry.net/free-pdf-editor/

I  also couldn't get it run after installing the .deb file w. gdebi on my 
Debian 11 Bullseye system. =(

Re: [PLUG] Edit PDF

2024-01-27 Thread MC_Sequoia 
"Nothing beats Master PDF"

Yes, for the commercial ($) version, but no for the FOSS version.

https://code-industry.net/free-pdf-editor/

Re: [PLUG] Edit PDF

2024-01-27 Thread mo 
DocHUB is not bad for cloud version. Nothing has the features of mpdf

On Sat, Jan 27, 2024, 16:45 VY  wrote:

> Dear All
>
> I am looking for some tools on Linux I can use to edit PDF documents.
> Any recommendation much appreciated!
>
> Thanks
>
> -Vincent
>

Re: [PLUG] Edit PDF

2024-01-27 Thread mo 
Nothing beats Master PDF

On Sat, Jan 27, 2024, 16:45 VY  wrote:

> Dear All
>
> I am looking for some tools on Linux I can use to edit PDF documents.
> Any recommendation much appreciated!
>
> Thanks
>
> -Vincent
>

Re: [PLUG] Edit PDF

2024-01-27 Thread MC_Sequoia 
"I am looking for some tools on Linux I can use to edit PDF documents. Any 
recommendation much appreciated!"

Over the past few years, I've tried a variety of Linux PDF editing apps and 
I've had a very mixed experience depending on what I was trying to do. 

For example, simply filling out a PDF form was a nightmare. If that's what you 
want to do, I'd suggest using a web app like DocuHub or Adobe's fee web pdf 
editor, https://www.adobe.com/acrobat/online/pdf-editor.html

I recently used pdfmod, to remove a page from a pdf and it worked great. 
Lightweight, simple tool.

There's a PDF app that uses EMACS for editing, elpa-pdf-tools, if you're good & 
comfy with using EMACS.

If you've a graphical package manager installed, it's easy to search on PDF and 
read the description of each pdf tool and should find one that's designed and 
good for the specific tasks you want to do.

HTH

[PLUG] Edit PDF

2024-01-27 Thread VY 
Dear All

I am looking for some tools on Linux I can use to edit PDF documents.
Any recommendation much appreciated!

Thanks

-Vincent