On Mon 11 Jun 2007 17:11:40 NZST +1200, Roy Britten wrote: > acroread with acroread-plugins installed for PDFs with the appropriate > editableness settings (may have to be generated by Acrobat).
How does this allow to edit pdfs? acro*READ* is exactly that: a READer only. If you want acro-edit, you have to buy the acrobat package, which costs truckloads of dosh for both adobe and billy, because there's no Linux version (despite the obnoxious ad on acroread, but at least on Linux that isn't dynamic). For overprinting text on PostScript files, there's flpsed. Note it only works for PostScript, if you shove it a PDF, it does an automatic conversion to PostScript using pdftops of the xpdf package. Converting PostScript back to PDF invariably involves ghostscript, and results are mixed - sometimes good, sometimes rubbish, esp fonts. Ghostscript's PDF->PS conversion is always rubbish wrt fonts, and the rubbish is non-reversible. As Jim points out, OO does similar things to flpsed. pdftk allows a minimal amount of pdf mangling on the command line, but it's mainly format conversion and page layout. There is nothing under Linux which deserves the label "PDF editor" as far as I know. Please prove me wrong. Volker -- Volker Kuhlmann is list0570 with the domain in header http://volker.dnsalias.net/ Please do not CC list postings to me.
