On Tuesday 13 June 2006 23:54, JimD wrote: > Are there any tools/editors to edit a pdf or ps file? I am > digitizing some books. I have the books as pdf and can convert > that to postscript, text, html. > > I would like to be able to insert a few graphics into the PDF > files. I could convert to plain text, edit in OOo and export to > PDF. However, I lose all formatting doing that. > > I was hoping there were tools/editors for PDF/PS. What the heck do > book writers use? I hope not a word processor. I am only working > with small books and it is a pain to have to deal with layout.
If the original is plain text without loads of graphics and fancy layout, koffice does a reasonable job of reading .pdf pdf wasn't really intended to be edited. It's actual purpose is as a final presentation format, so editing it is a somewhat like taking compiled code and expecting to be able to get the original C back -- If only me, you and dead people understand hex, how many people understand hex? Alan McKinnon alan at linuxholdings dot co dot za +27 82, double three seven, one nine three five -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
