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Old 08-08-2008, 02:54 AM   #1
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Who would be interested by a pdf editor/creator softwarelike adobe acrobat for linux?

Who would be interested by a pdf editor/creator like adobe acrobat for linux?

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Old 08-08-2008, 03:18 AM   #2
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Who would be interested by a pdf editor/creator like adobe acrobat for linux?
Not me. There is already kpdf for viewing and various "print to pdf" options for creating.
 
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Not me. There is already kpdf for viewing and various "print to pdf" options for creating.
not for editing and adding text
 
Old 08-08-2008, 03:37 AM   #4
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Not me either (probably): OO currently creates .pdfs and that does it for me currently. I believe that the next major release of OO is scheduled to add .pdf editing, and if that works well, I can't see why I'd want anything else.
 
Old 08-08-2008, 06:13 AM   #5
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One of the other members suggested this
for editing pdf
http://www.qoppa.com/demo/psdemo.html

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Old 08-08-2008, 06:36 AM   #6
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not for editing and adding text
During the whole time I've been using PC I never needed to modify existing PDF.

For me this format is somewhat final, like printed paper. If document is in pdf then it isn't supposied to be modified, it's only for viewing and printing. If you need document which can be easily changed then pdf is a wrong choice, pick *.odt or something else instead.

If you really need to modify pdf, convert it into some kind of other format (like postscript), and then modify.
 
Old 08-08-2008, 12:26 PM   #7
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open office already can export to pdf I don't know about editing them
but I know it can make them from any other format that it can handle
most likely it can edit them never tried to edit one in it
 
Old 08-09-2008, 01:36 AM   #8
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There is an extension for OpenOffice.org 3.0.1 / StarOffice 9 that allows importing pdf files.

http://extensions.services.openoffic...ject/pdfimport
 
Old 08-09-2008, 09:50 AM   #9
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You could use pdftk, from the man page:
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Uncompress PDF page streams for editing the PDF in a text editor (e.g.,
vim, emacs)
pdftk doc.pdf output doc.unc.pdf uncompress
 
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i think scribus also exports as PDF.
 
  


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