Yeah, i've used Inkscape for many years for this purpose with success. On Fri, Aug 3, 2018 at 5:58 PM Reco <recovery...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi. > > On Fri, Aug 03, 2018 at 11:29:07PM +0200, Rodolfo Medina wrote: > > Hi all. > > > > I've been tried masterpdfeditor, in the .deb version from official site, > and it > > seems to be quite powerful. Differently from xournal, it allows you to > re-edit > > previous changes to the document, whereas xournal seems not to be able > to do > > that. > > xournal does not add text to PDFs per se. What it does is adding PDF > annotations. Probably. First versions of xournal cheated and stored said > annotation in a xml alongside with PDF. > > > The problem is, that it is proprietary software that asks for money > > otherwise more and more `watermarks' are added to the document any time > you > > edit it again. > > That's to be expected. Nearly all proprietary software is written with a > purpose to make end-user's life as miserable as possible. Unless said > user pays, then it's twice as miserable. > Masterpdfeditor is not different in this regard. > > > Anyone out there has experimented the matter and found a good > > solution to the problem of adding some bit of text to pdf documents? In > > particular, I want to add fingering notation to piano sheet music papers. > > The answer is - it depends on what you really need. > If you need to add a PDF annotation without touching PDF itself - > anything that's based on poppler library should satisfy your needs > (evince/okular/etc). > If you need to add a real text to a PDF and have a time to spend - > you'll need inkscape or Gimp or that PDF editing plug-in for > Libreoffice. > If PDF batch processing is your cup of tea - it's called PDF::API2 in > perl. Ghostscript may be suitable too. > > Reco > >
