Hi Everyone, Can anyone let me know how to edit (not create) pdf files in Linux? I have Star Office 5.2 installed and I am using SuSe 8.0 pro. I want to fill some forms (interactive and non-interactive) and also edit the text. regards Leo
The 03.09.15 at 17:41, LinuxMail wrote:
Can anyone let me know how to edit (not create) pdf files in Linux?
As far as I know, it is not possible. Acrobat doesn't provide a linux version of distiller and such. But you can convert it to postcript and edit that... or ps to a graphic file, or text, or html... at the end, convert back to pdf.
I want to fill some forms (interactive and non-interactive) and also edit the text.
As I haven't seen any pdf form (only heard of them once) I don't know if it is possible. It would be with acrobat reader, I think. -- Cheers, Carlos Robinson
On Monday 15 September 2003 01:41 pm, LinuxMail wrote:
Hi Everyone,
Can anyone let me know how to edit (not create) pdf files in Linux? I have Star Office 5.2 installed and I am using SuSe 8.0 pro. I want to fill some forms (interactive and non-interactive) and also edit the text.
regards Leo ==============
The latest version of KWord will load PDF and let you edit them, but not save to pdf. Don't know how far back KWord would do this, so if you are still working with the version installed by 8.0, it may not. Lee -- --- KMail v1.5.3-3 --- SuSE Linux Pro v8.2 --- Registered Linux User #225206 On any other day, that might seem strange...
On Mon, 2003-09-15 at 21:28, BandiPat wrote:
The latest version of KWord will load PDF and let you edit them, but not save to pdf. Don't know how far back KWord would do this, so if you are still working with the version installed by 8.0, it may not.
Lee
But kword, like any kde app, should be able to use the default pdf driver to print to. So that should cover everything :-)
In a previous message, BandiPat <penguin0601@earthlink.net> wrote:
The latest version of KWord will load PDF and let you edit them, but not save to pdf. Don't know how far back KWord would do this, so if you are still working with the version installed by 8.0, it may not.
I've tried this, using the kword version on the 8.2 DVD. It loads PDFs quite nicely. Unfortunately, it loses italicization information (but, strangely, keeps font size). Has this ability been added in a later version? That would make it an extremely useful thing for me (some authors insist in supplying only PDF files, which are very hard to extract editable text from in a usable form!). John -- John Pettigrew XL Cambridge - contract and freelance editing Biology specialist Molecular biology, genetics, biotechnology john@xl-cambridge.com http://www.xl-cambridge.com/ PGP public key available
The 03.09.16 at 09:41, John Pettigrew wrote:
(some authors insist in supplying only PDF files, which are very hard to extract editable text from in a usable form!).
There is a pdftotext and a pdftohtml that could help. Of course, format is lost in plain text conversion. -- Cheers, Carlos Robinson
In a previous message, "Carlos E. R." <robin1.listas@tiscali.es> wrote:
There is a pdftotext and a pdftohtml that could help. Of course, format is lost in plain text conversion.
Ah - pdftohtml is almost useful. If I could get it to recognise the difference between a paragraph break and a line break, it would be ideal! Thanks for that, though! John -- John Pettigrew Headstrong Games john@headstrong-games.co.uk Fun : Strategy : Price http://www.headstrong-games.co.uk/ Board games that won't break the bank
The 03.09.17 at 10:14, John Pettigrew wrote:
Ah - pdftohtml is almost useful. If I could get it to recognise the difference between a paragraph break and a line break, it would be ideal!
Ah.. too bad. What about marking text inside acrobat reader, and pasting it, as text, to some editor outside? Ah, no I remember I tried. It not only doesn't recognise paragraph, it doesn't even recognise lines! It mixes title lines and paragraph body, everything together. -- Cheers, Carlos Robinson
The 03.09.17 at 10:14, John Pettigrew wrote:
Ah - pdftohtml is almost useful. If I could get it to recognise the difference between a paragraph break and a line break, it would be ideal!
I forgot to mention something I saw a few minutes ago. If I use bash autocompletion, typing "pdf[tab][tab]" gives a list of interesting programs: cer@nimrodel:~> pdf pdf2dsc pdfcsplain pdfetex pdfimages pdfjadetex pdftex pdftops pdfvirtex pdf2ps pdfeinitex pdfevirtex pdfinfo pdflatex pdftohtml pdftosrc pdfcslatex pdfelatex pdffonts pdfinitex pdfopt pdftopbm pdftotext cer@nimrodel:~> pdf Now, what is pdftosrc? The names sounds interesting. But there is no help and no man. I leave it to you to investigate ;-) -- Cheers, Carlos Robinson
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