[ale] is there an open source program permittingcreating/editing of PDF files ?

[Jeff Lightner]

pdfedit probably does however the only time I used it I was trying to
extract a subset of information from an existing PDF someone else had
published - that was quite painful though I did get it done.  If you're
an experienced Adobe PDF editor perhaps pdfedit will be more user
friendly than I found it.

 

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From: ale-bounces at ale.org [mailto:ale-bounces at ale.org] On Behalf Of Jim
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Sent: Wednesday, June 03, 2009 12:50 PM
To: Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts - Yes! We run Linux!
Subject: Re: [ale] is there an open source program
permittingcreating/editing of PDF files ?

 

The key word here is "unnoticeable". Full Adobe Acrobat will let you add
highlights and arrows and all kinds of drawn-on doodads. Is there an
open source tool that will let you do that?

On Wed, Jun 3, 2009 at 12:42 PM, James Sumners <james.sumners at gmail.com>
wrote:

Or install the CUPS PDF printer and create PDFs from any application
that can print.

PDFs aren't really meant to be edited once they are created. There is
a plugin for OpenOffice Draw that makes it possible, but I doubt it
works very well. A PDF is meant to be a digital representation of a
printed document. Can you make unnoticeable edits to printed paper?

On Wed, Jun 3, 2009 at 9:53 AM, Robert L. Harris
<robert.l.harris at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>   I use OpenOffice.org.   I can modify/store as ODT files and when I
am
> ready to send
> it to a client I can export it as PDF.  I haven't had much luck
> importing and editing
> existing PDF's yet, but haven't really had the need to either.
>
> Robert



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