On Sat, Jan 14, 2012 at 01:00:35PM -0800, Weaver wrote: > > > John A. Sullivan III wrote: > >> This is a real hole in the Linux desktop environment. > > > > I disagree. PDFs are not _meant_ to be edited. Even Adobe Acrobat has > > very limited options to edit a PDF. There are third party plugins for > > Acrobat that can do some more editing, but it's still rather limited. > > I've just started to use pdfedit, but haven't even delved beneath the > surface yet. > > I have found that by opening a pdf in this app, I can gain access > to'select all', 'copy' and then paste into LibreOffice Writer. Use this as > an editor, then 'export to pdf'. > Regards,
For something like that, you could just as easily use pdftotext $pdffile $textfile then edit the resulting textfile in LO, or whatever. Of course, it only works with pdf files that were built from text, not scans/image files. ./tony -- http://tonybaldwin.me/hax free software by tony -- 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/20120114220852.ga18...@deathstar.hsd1.ct.comcast.net