On Fri, 2012-01-13 at 21:50 +0000, richard wrote: > Greetings, > > > Is there any free app which can edit pdf files. > Evince looks like it does it, you can edit, send it as an attachment and read > it with another copy of evince and you can see the alterations. > Open it on a poxy winblos machine with acrobat or acroread, and the edited > sections are as the original. > xpdf also shows the original before editing.. > help ???? > > TIA > > Richard > > This is a real hole in the Linux desktop environment. There are no good options. Here are the ones of which I know:
1) OpenOffice PDF plugin - probably the best potential but it still sometimes chokes on some PDFs or mangles the formatting badly. 2) Xournal - good and simple if you only want to add text but nothing beyond that. 3) GIMP - extremely powerful and consequently complicated and it can only edit a page at a time. 4) Inkscape or Scribus - powerful and consequently complicated, can only edit a page at a time (not sure about that for Scribus), crashes frequently and sometimes completely chokes on the PDF. 5) pdfeditor - potentially the most powerful of the options but still limited, difficult to use, and immature. I sure wish it was different as this is a major problem for us. I'd be absolutely delighted if I was wrong about this - John -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/1326492581.31393.332.ca...@denise.theartistscloset.com