"John A. Sullivan III" <jsulli...@opensourcedevel.com> writes:
> 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. Didn't know about this one -- I need to try it... > 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. And it completely loses the document structure: it edits it as an image. Even if you save the result as a PDF, it's just a big image. > 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/1bwr8vuq1u....@pfeifferfamily.net
