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From: England

Registered: 2009-04-21

Posts: 35

Editing PDF's

As the title suggests really - i'm looking for a PDF editing suite/program.

Any suggestions?

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omns

#! wanderer

From: ~/

Registered: 2008-11-25

Posts: 5,131

Re: Editing PDF's

sudo apt-get install pdfedit

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From: England

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Re: Editing PDF's

Cheers Omns.

But I was using that last night. I wrote the text I needed to on the PDF, saved is as a copy, opened it in Evince and there was no text.

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Erik

#! CrunchBanger

From: Fort Worth, TX

Registered: 2009-03-28

Posts: 192

Re: Editing PDF's

You could try Scribus?

sudo apt-get install scribus

http://www.scribus.net/

ewj1976

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From: Harpers Ferry, West Virginia

Registered: 2009-02-08

Posts: 53

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Re: Editing PDF's

While there are a few editors for performing basic document creation, even limited editing, at this point your better off looking for web-based solutions. Even then, most free editors will be awkward and feature deficient.

You could use Google and checkout some of the free sites, but I just used http://www.pdffiller.com/. It actually worked quite well. It was $10 for a monthly subscription (with no obligation to continue), but it worked well for me. It may have just been an editor, not a creation suite, but there are others.

I know that people may end up suggesting a few here and there, but honestly, I find them to all be difficult to manipulate, have poor formatting that generally doesn't translate well into an actual viewable document, and are very time inefficient. You seem to already have one bad experience. If anyone does know of a easy to use editor that actually works as intended, then I'd love to know about it.

Just checked out OO3.1 (I'm currently using it on Arch), and noticed that you can export as a PDF. Perhaps it's a feature in 3.0?

Last edited by ewj1976 (2009-05-12 12:25:08)

fhsm

#! Junkie

From: New Hampshire, USA

Registered: 2009-01-05

Posts: 445

Re: Editing PDF's

I spent a long time looking for a decent PDF Editor and found that not much is out there.   OO was the best of the options i found for creation.  For editing pdfedit was the only option I found.  I found that it's hard to use, but more often than not unexpected behavior is the result of user error.  In particular I notice that the it saved copies instead of editing the original and the copy would be in unexpected places.

Kuno

#! Die Hard

From: Osnabrück - DE

Registered: 2009-01-09

Posts: 649

Re: Editing PDF's

Maybe Inkscape ? Last version (0.46) opens pdf´s, let´s you edit and than save as "pdf via cairo". Only backdraw (with the windows version i tried in my office): Inkscape lets me save my pdf´s only in version 1.4, while some poster-printer service wants a 1.3-pdf. And on editing, i had to sometimes remove existing text completely, before inserting the new one. At least - it worked...

fhsm

#! Junkie

From: New Hampshire, USA

Registered: 2009-01-05

Posts: 445

Re: Editing PDF's

I forgot to mention Inkscape.   I've used it to flip around colors in charts in PDFs with some success in the past.  Good Suggestion Kuno.