Re: [OT] Free app for editing PDF files?

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Kevanf1

24 Apr 2006 24 Apr '06

13:23

On 24/04/06, Shriramana Sharma wrote:

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Does anyone know of a no-cost software to run on Windows (if not, on Linux) that allows one to edit PDF files? All my googling turns up only free trials of shareware.

Does Ghostscript help here in any way?

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Shriramana Sharma

24 Apr 24 Apr

13:29

New subject: [SLE] Re: [OT] Free app for editing PDF files?

Monday, 24 April 2006 18:53 samaye, Kevanf1 alekhiit:

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What about Open Office? Or is there not enough functionality

Maybe I was not clear. There is a lot of freeware to *create* PDFs. I have a PDF that someone else created and I do not have its source i.e. the HTML or ODF or DOC or whatever that it was created *from*. But I have to make some changes to it. Adobe Acrobat (not the reader) has this facility as do many non-gratis programs. I need a gratis program that does this. P.S: Why did you shift this to SLE? It is an OT query, no? -- Tux #395953 resides at http://samvit.org playing with KDE 3.52 on SUSE Linux 10.0 $ date [] CCE +2006-04-24 W17-1 UTC+0530

Dave Cotton

13:58

New subject: [SLE] Re: [OT] Free app for editing PDF files?

On Mon, 2006-04-24 at 18:59 +0530, Shriramana Sharma wrote:

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Monday, 24 April 2006 18:53 samaye, Kevanf1 alekhiit:

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What about Open Office? Or is there not enough functionality

Maybe I was not clear. There is a lot of freeware to *create* PDFs. I have a PDF that someone else created and I do not have its source i.e. the HTML or ODF or DOC or whatever that it was created *from*. But I have to make some changes to it. Adobe Acrobat (not the reader) has this facility as do many non-gratis programs. I need a gratis program that does this.

You'll have to search, but, I did this when I needed to translate some PDF brochures 2/3 years ago. There is a conversion program pdf2text or something like that, there is also something to extract images from PDF files. Then Openoffice can put it all back together.

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Dave Cotton

Per Jessen

13:32

New subject: [SLE] Re: [OT] Free app for editing PDF files?

Kevanf1 wrote:

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On 24/04/06, Shriramana Sharma wrote:

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Does anyone know of a no-cost software to run on Windows (if not, on Linux) that allows one to edit PDF files? All my googling turns up only free trials of shareware.

I've always treated PDF as an output-format, not a source-format. I don't know of an application that will edit PDFs directly, but there's of course plenty that will generate PDFs from all kinds of other source-formats. /Per Jessen, Zürich

James Knott

23:41

New subject: [SLE] Re: [OT] Free app for editing PDF files?

Per Jessen wrote:

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Kevanf1 wrote:

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On 24/04/06, Shriramana Sharma wrote:

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Does anyone know of a no-cost software to run on Windows (if not, on Linux) that allows one to edit PDF files? All my googling turns up only free trials of shareware.

I've always treated PDF as an output-format, not a source-format. I don't know of an application that will edit PDFs directly, but there's of course plenty that will generate PDFs from all kinds of other source-formats.

KOffice can import & edit PDF.

Stephen Boddy

13:58

New subject: [SLE] Re: [OT] Free app for editing PDF files?

On Monday 24 April 2006 14:23, Kevanf1 wrote:

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On 24/04/06, Shriramana Sharma wrote:

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Does anyone know of a no-cost software to run on Windows (if not, on Linux) that allows one to edit PDF files? All my googling turns up only free trials of shareware.

Does Ghostscript help here in any way?

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Tux #395953 resides at http://samvit.org playing with KDE 3.52 on SUSE Linux 10.0 $ date [] CCE +2006-04-24 W17-1 UTC+0530

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What about Open Office? Or is there not enough functionality

KOffice (linux only) allows the import and editing of PDF files with varying degrees of success depending on the complexity. If you use 1.5, you can import, then save to odt, and load it into OpenOffice (Windows or Linux). You will have to do additional work. You can't load and save in PDF only and expect it to work, but KOffice gets around the boring bit (the typing). -- Steve Boddy

Allister

15:55

New subject: [SLE] Re: [OT] Free app for editing PDF files?

On Monday 24 April 2006 13:23, Kevanf1 wrote:

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On 24/04/06, Shriramana Sharma wrote:

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Does anyone know of a no-cost software to run on Windows (if not, on Linux) that allows one to edit PDF files? All my googling turns up only free trials of shareware.

http://www.scribus.net/ Very good editor, even if the save file overhead is a little large. Allister -- Public Key to be found at www.keyserver.net. Search for tag@ukfsn

Shriramana Sharma

16:42

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Monday, 24 April 2006 21:25 samaye, Allister alekhiit:

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http://www.scribus.net/ Very good editor, even if the save file overhead is a little large.

Scribus edits *PDFs*??? Scribus 1.331 just now refused to open the most basic Hello World test PDF. -- Tux #395953 resides at http://samvit.org playing with KDE 3.52 on SUSE Linux 10.0 $ date [] CCE +2006-04-24 W17-1 UTC+0530

Allister

18:06

New subject: [SLE] Re: [OT] Free app for editing PDF files?

On Monday 24 April 2006 16:42, Shriramana Sharma wrote:

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Monday, 24 April 2006 21:25 samaye, Allister alekhiit:

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http://www.scribus.net/ Very good editor, even if the save file overhead is a little large.

Scribus edits *PDFs*??? Scribus 1.331 just now refused to open the most basic Hello World test PDF.

Sorry, getting over enthusiastic. I should have said Scribus creates PDF's. Allister -- Public Key to be found at www.keyserver.net. Search for tag@ukfsn

James Knott

23:38

New subject: [SLE] Re: [OT] Free app for editing PDF files?

Kevanf1 wrote:

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On 24/04/06, Shriramana Sharma wrote:

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Does anyone know of a no-cost software to run on Windows (if not, on Linux) that allows one to edit PDF files? All my googling turns up only free trials of shareware.

Does Ghostscript help here in any way?

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Tux #395953 resides at http://samvit.org playing with KDE 3.52 on SUSE Linux 10.0 $ date [] CCE +2006-04-24 W17-1 UTC+0530

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What about Open Office? Or is there not enough functionality

OpenOffice will create, but not edit PDF files. I believe KOfFice and edit PDF.

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