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Old 06-30-2003, 01:39 PM   #1
darin3200
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Question Editing PDF files


I know that I can print to pdf files in linux but is there any way to edit the files or do pople use pdf so that others can't change the original document.?
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Old 06-30-2003, 02:44 PM   #2
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Yep, PDF wasn't meant to be edited...
there's some approaches on freshmeat
to deal with it, though... not that I have
tried any ;)


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Old 06-30-2003, 07:20 PM   #3
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You could always convert the relevant page(s) to images, edit them and then reconvert them back to a pdf. A bit laborious, though.
 
  


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