Re: editing pdf files
"John A. Sullivan III" <jsullivan@opensourcedevel.com> writes:
> On Fri, 2012-01-13 at 21:50 +0000, richard wrote:
>> Greetings,
>>
>>
>> Is there any free app which can edit pdf files.
>> Evince looks like it does it, you can edit, send it as an attachment and read
>> it with another copy of evince and you can see the alterations.
>> Open it on a poxy winblos machine with acrobat or acroread, and the edited
>> sections are as the original.
>> xpdf also shows the original before editing..
>> help ????
>>
>> TIA
>>
>> Richard
>>
>>
> This is a real hole in the Linux desktop environment. There are no good
> options. Here are the ones of which I know:
>
> 1) OpenOffice PDF plugin - probably the best potential but it still
> sometimes chokes on some PDFs or mangles the formatting badly.
Didn't know about this one -- I need to try it...
> 2) Xournal - good and simple if you only want to add text but nothing
> beyond that.
>
> 3) GIMP - extremely powerful and consequently complicated and it can
> only edit a page at a time.
And it completely loses the document structure: it edits it as an
image. Even if you save the result as a PDF, it's just a big image.
> 4) Inkscape or Scribus - powerful and consequently complicated, can only
> edit a page at a time (not sure about that for Scribus), crashes
> frequently and sometimes completely chokes on the PDF.
>
> 5) pdfeditor - potentially the most powerful of the options but still
> limited, difficult to use, and immature.
>
> I sure wish it was different as this is a major problem for us. I'd be
> absolutely delighted if I was wrong about this - John
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