Re: how to edit a pdf file in linux

[James Vahn <jvahn@short.circuit.com>]

Jerome BENOIT wrote:
>>>I have just complete a PDF form using both acrobat reader and ps2dpf as 
>>>follows:
>>>1] I filled the form;
>>>2] I printed the completed form as (PS) file;
>>>3] I converted the PS output into PDF output with ps2pdf.
>>>
> The PDF form was created (Creator) by `Adobe PageMaker 7.0' and produced 
>   (Producer) by `Acrobat Distiller 5.0.2 for Macintosh',
> and I used `acroread'.

I don't know if the result will be what you're looking for, but Adobe has a
free non-free "acroread" for Linux. It can be found through this URI for
/etc/apt/sources.list ::

         deb ftp://ftp.nerim.net/debian-marillat/ unstable main

The commands:

         apt-get update
         apt-get install acroread

and the package info:

Package: acroread
Priority: optional
Section: text
Installed-Size: 25232
Maintainer: Christian Marillat <marillat@debian.org>
Architecture: i386
Version: 5.09-woody0.0
Provides: pdf-viewer, postscript-preview
Depends: libc6 (>= 2.2.4-4), xlibs (>> 4.1.0), acroread-debian-files (>= 0.0.4)
Filename: pool/main/a/acroread/acroread_5.09-woody0.0_i386.deb
Size: 9170358
MD5sum: f690815d0067baa31b4fd0eae2f506b7
Description: Adobe Acrobat Reader: Portable Document Format file viewer
 Adobe Acrobat Reader for viewing and printing Adobe Portable Document
 Format (PDF) files.
 .
 Home Page: http://www.adobe.com/products/acrobat/readermain.html