Re: editing pdf files
On Sat, Jan 14, 2012 at 01:00:35PM -0800, Weaver wrote:
>
> > John A. Sullivan III wrote:
> >> This is a real hole in the Linux desktop environment.
> >
> > I disagree. PDFs are not _meant_ to be edited. Even Adobe Acrobat has
> > very limited options to edit a PDF. There are third party plugins for
> > Acrobat that can do some more editing, but it's still rather limited.
>
> I've just started to use pdfedit, but haven't even delved beneath the
> surface yet.
>
> I have found that by opening a pdf in this app, I can gain access
> to'select all', 'copy' and then paste into LibreOffice Writer. Use this as
> an editor, then 'export to pdf'.
> Regards,
For something like that, you could just as easily use
pdftotext $pdffile $textfile
then edit the resulting textfile in LO, or whatever.
Of course, it only works with pdf files that were built from text,
not scans/image files.
./tony
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