[gentoo-amd64] PDF Editor

[gentoo-amd64] PDF Editor

[sean]

Hello All,

	Can anyone recommend an application to edit a pdf file, and of course 
works on 64 bit Gentoo?

			Thanks,
			Sean
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Re: [gentoo-amd64] PDF Editor

[Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.]

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On Tuesday 26 September 2006 10:20, sean <tech.junk@verizon.net> wrote 
about '[gentoo-amd64] PDF Editor':
> 	Can anyone recommend an application to edit a pdf file, and of course
> works on 64 bit Gentoo?

PDF isn't meant to be edited.  Most (if not all) of the TeX tools in 
portage as well as OpenOffice and KOffice can export to PDF, and anything 
that can print to cups should be able to generate a PDF via the cups-pdf 
fake printer.

That said, I do not know of any application that lets you open an existing 
PDF and--say--correct typos, though I won't go far enough to say one 
doesn't exist.

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Re: [gentoo-amd64] PDF Editor

[Daniel Gryniewicz]

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On Tue, 2006-09-26 at 13:50 -0500, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote:
> On Tuesday 26 September 2006 10:20, sean <tech.junk@verizon.net> wrote 
> about '[gentoo-amd64] PDF Editor':
> > 	Can anyone recommend an application to edit a pdf file, and of course
> > works on 64 bit Gentoo?
> 
> PDF isn't meant to be edited.  Most (if not all) of the TeX tools in 
> portage as well as OpenOffice and KOffice can export to PDF, and anything 
> that can print to cups should be able to generate a PDF via the cups-pdf 
> fake printer.
> 
> That said, I do not know of any application that lets you open an existing 
> PDF and--say--correct typos, though I won't go far enough to say one 
> doesn't exist.
> 

evince/poppler/kpdf is working on it, but write support is not finished
in poppler yet.  I'm not aware of any other pdf editing software (except
acrobat, or course).

Daniel (evince maintainer)

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Re: [gentoo-amd64] PDF Editor

[Andrei Slavoiu]

--- sean <tech.junk@verizon.net> wrote:

> Hello All,
> 
> 	Can anyone recommend an application to edit a pdf
> file, and of course 
> works on 64 bit Gentoo?
Well, KWord (part of the KOffice suite) has the
ability to import PDF files, but it doesn't work very
well. You can give it a try and maybe you'll be lucky
and it works for your files.

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Re: [gentoo-amd64] PDF Editor

[Martins Steinbergs]

On Tuesday 26 September 2006 22:32, Andrei Slavoiu wrote:
> --- sean <tech.junk@verizon.net> wrote:
> > Hello All,
> >
> > 	Can anyone recommend an application to edit a pdf
> > file, and of course
> > works on 64 bit Gentoo?
>


If other optins mentioned doesnt suit you, give a try to some OCR software. if 
needed, with imagemagick convert to jpg or something.


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Re: [gentoo-amd64] PDF Editor

[Rodrigo Gnoatto Amaral]

There is a program called ps2text that converts the PDF to pure text
(even if the PDF is locked).

2006/9/26, Martins Steinbergs <mar@ml.lv>:
> On Tuesday 26 September 2006 22:32, Andrei Slavoiu wrote:
> > --- sean <tech.junk@verizon.net> wrote:
> > > Hello All,
> > >
> > >     Can anyone recommend an application to edit a pdf
> > > file, and of course
> > > works on 64 bit Gentoo?
> >
>
>
> If other optins mentioned doesnt suit you, give a try to some OCR software. if
> needed, with imagemagick convert to jpg or something.
>
>
> m
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Re: [gentoo-amd64] PDF Editor

[Joerg Gollnick]

Am Dienstag 26 September 2006 20:54 schrieb Daniel Gryniewicz:
> On Tue, 2006-09-26 at 13:50 -0500, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote:
> > On Tuesday 26 September 2006 10:20, sean <tech.junk@verizon.net> wrote 
> > about '[gentoo-amd64] PDF Editor':
> > > 	Can anyone recommend an application to edit a pdf file, and of course
> > > works on 64 bit Gentoo?
> > 
> > PDF isn't meant to be edited.  Most (if not all) of the TeX tools in 
> > portage as well as OpenOffice and KOffice can export to PDF, and anything 
> > that can print to cups should be able to generate a PDF via the cups-pdf 
> > fake printer.
> > 
> > That said, I do not know of any application that lets you open an existing 
> > PDF and--say--correct typos, though I won't go far enough to say one 
> > doesn't exist.
> > 
> 
> evince/poppler/kpdf is working on it, but write support is not finished
> in poppler yet.  I'm not aware of any other pdf editing software (except
> acrobat, or course).
> 
> Daniel (evince maintainer)
> 
For simple things like cat some pdf Files I use app-text/mbtpdfasm

Summary: This program can be used to assemble/merge PDF files, extract
information from PDF files, and update the metadata in PDF files.

Best regards Joerg
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Re: [gentoo-amd64] PDF Editor

[David Fellows]

Sean wrote:
> Hello All,
> 
> 	Can anyone recommend an application to edit a pdf file, and of course 
> works on 64 bit Gentoo?

app-text/pdftk can be used to attach files to a pdf doc, add a watermark, 
fill forms, cat pdf files together and burst them apart.  It does not 
allow you to edit the textual content.

It needs gcj, so you will have to add that to your USE flags and re-emerge gcc.

Dave F

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Re: [gentoo-amd64] PDF Editor

[Vladimir G. Ivanovic]

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http://www.foxitsoftware.com/pdf/desklinux/

Foxit has a no-fee reader for Linux, but no writer. Only on Windows.

--- Vladimir


> On Tuesday 26 September 2006 10:20, sean <tech.junk@verizon.net> wrote 
> > 	Can anyone recommend an application to edit a pdf file, and of course
> > works on 64 bit Gentoo?

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Re: [gentoo-amd64] PDF Editor

[Petr Gebauer]

Hello,

try project pdfedit, it's new and I think that it's quite good.
http://pdfedit.petricek.net/pdfedit.index_e

pege


> Hello All,
> 
> 	Can anyone recommend an application to edit a pdf file, and of course 
> works on 64 bit Gentoo?
> 
> 			Thanks,
> 			Sean


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Re: [gentoo-amd64] PDF Editor

[Neil Stone]

> 
>> Hello All,
>>
>> 	Can anyone recommend an application to edit a pdf file, and of course 
>> works on 64 bit Gentoo?
>>
>> 			Thanks,
>> 			Sean
> 
> 

*  app-text/pdftk
       Latest version available: 1.12
       Latest version installed: [ Not Installed ]    <---- just about to
       Size of downloaded files: 2,310 kB
       Homepage:    http://www.accesspdf.com/pdftk
       Description: A tool for manipulating PDF documents
       License:     GPL-2


website says;

If PDF is electronic paper, then pdftk is an electronic staple-remover, 
hole-punch, binder, secret-decoder-ring, and X-Ray-glasses. Pdftk is a 
command-line tool for doing everyday things with PDF documents. Keep one 
in the top drawer of your desktop and use it to:

     * Merge PDF Documents
     * Split PDF Pages into a New Document
     * Decrypt Input as Necessary (Password Required)
     * Encrypt Output as Desired
     * Fill PDF Forms with FDF Data and/or Flatten Forms
     * Apply a Background Watermark
     * Report on PDF Metrics such as Metadata, Bookmarks, and Page Labels
     * Update PDF Metadata
     * Attach Files to PDF Pages or the PDF Document
     * Unpack PDF Attachments
     * Burst a PDF Document into Single Pages
     * Uncompress and Re-Compress Page Streams
     * Repair Corrupted PDF (Where Possible)

Pdftk allows you to manipulate PDF easily and freely. It does not 
require Acrobat, and it runs on Windows, Linux, Mac OS X, FreeBSD and 
Solaris.

Pdftk is free software (GPL).

I'll let you know how I find it as I too have been trying for some time 
to find a friendly way of editing PDF files...

BTW, GIMP can do this, but is not really for tool for the job.
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Re: [gentoo-amd64] PDF Editor

[Barry.SCHWARTZ]

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Neil Stone <neil@flashtek-uk.com> skribis:
> Pdftk is free software (GPL).
> 
> I'll let you know how I find it as I too have been trying for some time 
> to find a friendly way of editing PDF files...

I’ve used pdftk to encrypt PDF. It works fine, but lets you do such
things incorrectly without alarms going off, and you have to learn
command line flags. On the plus side, it lets you do things
incorrectly and is controlled by command line flags. :)

The main drawback is that the name makes one imagine it is a graphical
tool, when it is not.

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