[ale] PDF editor

[Tim Watts]

Wow. This ought to fill that hole :-)  But alas, while KWord does import pdfs, 
much of the formatting gets lost. I'll try some of the other suggestions. 

Thanks Keith!

On Wednesday 01 February 2006 10:26, Watson, Keith R wrote:
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: ale-bounces at ale.org [mailto:ale-bounces at ale.org] On Behalf Of
>
> Brian
>
> > MacLeod
> > Sent: Tuesday, January 31, 2006 16:02
> > To: Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts
> > Subject: Re: [ale] PDF editor
> >
> > 	> You have hot on a big hole in Linux system: PDF editing.
> > 	>
> > 	> That is still the realm of Adobe software only.
> > 	>
> > 	> There are a few windows products that will take a pdf and
>
> convert
>
> > it
> > 	to
> >
> > 	> a word doc for editing. I have not tested any of those under
>
> wine
>
> > (or
> >
> > 	> windows, for that matter).
> >
> > If this only on occasion:
> > pdf2ps
> > Edit with GIMP
> > ps2pdf
> >
> > ...might be workable.
> >
> > But since most PDFs people would wish to edit contain text and
>
> formatting,
>
> > it probably isn't what your are looking for, despite being free...
> >
> > bnm
>
> KWord may import PDFs directly
>
> >From the FAQ
>
> "Please note that in KOffice 1.4, it is recommended to save as RTF (Rich
> Text Format) to exchange with MS-Word. (PDF can be a good file format
> too for importing into KWord.)"
>
> http://www.koffice.org/faq/
>
>
> Scribus imports PDFs so it might be able to edit them
> http://docs.scribus.net/
>
>
> This site talks about PDFs on Linux including editing them
> http://www.marcprior.de/linux/misc/pdf.html
>
>
> Here's another interesting way to do it on Linux
> http://applications.linux.com/article.pl?sid=05/01/06/0612209&tid=49&tid
> =47
>
>
> There's an O'Reilly book on hacking PDFs. There's and entry in the TOC
> for editing PDFs for Free. Your local library may have a copy.
> http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/pdfhks/
>
>
> Pdftk - the GPL pdf tool kit and it runs on Linux but it only allows
> limited editing.
> http://www.accesspdf.com/pdftk/index.html
>
>
> This site is all about PDF hacking
> http://www.accesspdf.com/index.php
>
>
> This is a rather brute force way of doing it
> http://alan.aspuru.com/archives/2005/12/26/how-to-edit-a-pdf-file-in-lin
> ux/
>
>
> Here's a free on but it runs under windows
> http://www.pdf995.com/
>
>
> This is an interesting way to do it on Linux
> http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2004/11/msg01995.html
>
>
> happy editing,
> keith