Re: How can I edit the text of a PDF file without having the source file of it?
Hello Sridhar and All Australian Ubuntu Users,
I visited the [2] site you mention below, eg:
[2] Open source, java: http://www.pdfsam.org/?page_id=10
And it _sounds_like_ a good idea. However, when I went to download the
executable version, I could only see a M$ Windows installable version and I
think also there was a Macintosh version there too. I downloaded the M$
Windows version and it appears to have run and installed correctly using
WINE. However, when I use the WINE menu to run the program nothing seems to
happen.
I also downloaded the java source code for the above program. Unfortunately,
even though the source file *appear* to be included, I don't know how to
compile it, and there seems to be no instructions included with the source
files.
This is rapidly seeming to be one job that will go into my too hard
basket. *SMILE*
Someone mentioned that OpenOffice.org 3.0 *should* be able to edit PDF
files. I'm thinking that maybe my best option will be for me to wait for OO
3 to be released and try it.
Thank you for the info and efforts you have made to try to help me with this
problem. *SMILE*
Fond Regards,
Peter Eric (aka 'pew') Williams
from North Hobart, Tasmania, Australia
2008/6/23 Hamish Carpenter [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
Sridhar Dhanapalan wrote:
On Sat, 21 Jun 2008 at 15:40, Peter Williams [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hello Ubuntu-Australia ppl,
{ I apologize for waffling on (below) however I figured that I was best
for
me to supply too much info rather than not enough. }
I have a PDF file (eg an Adobe Portable Document Format) file which I
authored quite a long time ago... back when I was using M$ Windows XP
Home
Edition as my Operating System. I now wish to edit the PDF file, however
I
don't know where the source document is, or whether I even HAVE the
source
file. From memory, the file was written using Micro$oft Word, and
probably
printed with PDF995 (M$ Windows print driver which creates PDF
documents).
[ eg PDF995 is available from the website www.pdf995.com ]
PDF is primarily an export format - it was never designed to be edited.
However, there are some tools out there which can do it - pdfedit and the
soon-to-be-released OpenOffice.org 3.0 spring to mind.
It is possible to treat a PDF like a canvas and draw a white box with new
text over the old text. This is usually done programmatically and can take a
lot of fiddling.
It would also be possible to splice the original PDF with a new page
replacing the one with the old url. This is probably the easiest approach.
PDF::Reuse [1] will do this for you in perl but its API is reasonably
complicated, there may also be GUI tools for this including PDF Split and
Merge [2]. Extract pages 1 to 4 and 6 to 16. Create a new page 5, merge back
together.
[1]
http://search.cpan.org/~nsharrock/PDF-Extract-3.02/lib/PDF/Extract.pmhttp://search.cpan.org/%7Ensharrock/PDF-Extract-3.02/lib/PDF/Extract.pm
[2] Open source, java: http://www.pdfsam.org/?page_id=10
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Peter Eric (aka 'pew') WILLIAMS
My free website is:
http://pewtas.googlepages.com (or) http://tinyurl.com/yuyejs
(please visit my free website and let me know what you think about it.)
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Re: How can I edit the text of a PDF file without having the source file of it?
Hi Sridhar and fellow Australian Ubuntu users, Firstly, Sridhar, I'd like to thank you for your supportive and informative emails and giving me good advice on what to try. The Good News is that I *found the source file* -- it was a Micro$oft Word format document which I had authored in Sept 2005 (which I knew from the document's filename), and it was saved on my system without me realizing that it was saved. I examined the properties of the PDF file I had and that told me the title of my M$ Word document. A quick search and it was found... lurking in a sub-directory of my Home directory. The main work remaining for my document was to replace the crappy M$ Windows Fonts with Linux Ubuntu fonts -- which is easy compared to the PDF extracting dramas which I was thinking I'd need to do, if I did not find the original document. Thank you again for all your help! Fond Regards, PEW From Hobart, Tasmania, Australia 2008/6/29 Sridhar Dhanapalan [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Sun, 29 Jun 2008 at 05:51, Peter Williams [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Someone mentioned that OpenOffice.org 3.0 *should* be able to edit PDF files. I'm thinking that maybe my best option will be for me to wait for OO 3 to be released and try it. You can try it now if you like: http://blogs.sun.com/GullFOSS/entry/pdf_import_first_milestone_reached?intcmp=1549 You'll need to get the OpenOffice.org 3.0 beta for that extension to work. Keep in mind that it's all still a work in progress, so it won't be smooth as silk yet. More info at http://www.oooninja.com/2008/03/openofficeorg-30-new-features.html PDF importing is far from easy, since the format was never designed for it. The general way to do things is to use the OpenDocument formats for editing, and PDF for exporting. The approach I'd take is: 1. import your PDF 2. save as an OpenDocument format and edit there 3. when you're done, export to PDF 4. keep the OpenDocument version around for editing in the future -- What is the sound of one hand typing? -- Fond Regards, Peter Eric (aka 'pew') WILLIAMS My free website is: http://pewtas.googlepages.com (or) http://tinyurl.com/yuyejs (please visit my free website and let me know what you think about it.) -- ubuntu-au mailing list ubuntu-au@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-au
Re: How can I edit the text of a PDF file without having the source file of it?
Sridhar Dhanapalan wrote:
On Sat, 21 Jun 2008 at 15:40, Peter Williams [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hello Ubuntu-Australia ppl,
{ I apologize for waffling on (below) however I figured that I was best for
me to supply too much info rather than not enough. }
I have a PDF file (eg an Adobe Portable Document Format) file which I
authored quite a long time ago... back when I was using M$ Windows XP Home
Edition as my Operating System. I now wish to edit the PDF file, however I
don't know where the source document is, or whether I even HAVE the source
file. From memory, the file was written using Micro$oft Word, and probably
printed with PDF995 (M$ Windows print driver which creates PDF documents).
[ eg PDF995 is available from the website www.pdf995.com ]
PDF is primarily an export format - it was never designed to be edited.
However, there are some tools out there which can do it - pdfedit and the
soon-to-be-released OpenOffice.org 3.0 spring to mind.
It is possible to treat a PDF like a canvas and draw a white box with new text
over the old text. This is usually done programmatically and can take a lot of
fiddling.
It would also be possible to splice the original PDF with a new page replacing
the one with the old url. This is probably the easiest approach. PDF::Reuse [1]
will do this for you in perl but its API is reasonably complicated, there may
also be GUI tools for this including PDF Split and Merge [2]. Extract pages 1
to 4 and 6 to 16. Create a new page 5, merge back together.
[1] http://search.cpan.org/~nsharrock/PDF-Extract-3.02/lib/PDF/Extract.pm
[2] Open source, java: http://www.pdfsam.org/?page_id=10
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Re: How can I edit the text of a PDF file without having the source file of it?
On Sat, 21 Jun 2008 at 15:40, Peter Williams [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hello Ubuntu-Australia ppl,
{ I apologize for waffling on (below) however I figured that I was best for
me to supply too much info rather than not enough. }
I have a PDF file (eg an Adobe Portable Document Format) file which I
authored quite a long time ago... back when I was using M$ Windows XP Home
Edition as my Operating System. I now wish to edit the PDF file, however I
don't know where the source document is, or whether I even HAVE the source
file. From memory, the file was written using Micro$oft Word, and probably
printed with PDF995 (M$ Windows print driver which creates PDF documents).
[ eg PDF995 is available from the website www.pdf995.com ]
PDF is primarily an export format - it was never designed to be edited.
However, there are some tools out there which can do it - pdfedit and the
soon-to-be-released OpenOffice.org 3.0 spring to mind.
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How can I edit the text of a PDF file without having the source file of it?
Hello Ubuntu-Australia ppl,
{ I apologize for waffling on (below) however I figured that I was best for
me to supply too much info rather than not enough. }
I have a PDF file (eg an Adobe Portable Document Format) file which I
authored quite a long time ago... back when I was using M$ Windows XP Home
Edition as my Operating System. I now wish to edit the PDF file, however I
don't know where the source document is, or whether I even HAVE the source
file. From memory, the file was written using Micro$oft Word, and probably
printed with PDF995 (M$ Windows print driver which creates PDF documents). [
eg PDF995 is available from the website www.pdf995.com ]
The file is called piffle_forever.pdf and is 16 A4 pages in length and
also contains embedded colour images. I want to keep all of the formatting
and images etc. However what I do want to do is change the text of a URL on
page 5 of the book, to reflect that the Piffle Page Url is different to
that currently in the document.
I attempted to open the pdf file with Scribus 1.3.3.11 however I get the
following error message:
FATAL ERROR
The /home/user/Desktop/piffle_forever.pdf is not in an acceptable format.
[OK] { button }
The Fatal Error message appears to be a Scribus error message and not a
Ubuntu error.
If you ( anyone ) would like to try to change this PDF or attempt to edit
it, I will tell you where you can download is from:
Some of the text on page 5 of the document is as follows:
Piffle the Cat first published in Dreaming of Dreaming,
by Peter E. Williams, 1999.
The Piffle webpage is http://members.fortunecity.com/pew/piffle.html
e.g I want the last line (above) to read:
The Piffle webpage is http://pewtas.googlepages.com/thepifflepage
I you go to http://pewtas.googlepages.com/thepifflepage and go to the bottom
of the page, you will see a HTML table with 2 columns. In the left-hand
column is the URL for the document:
piffle_forever.pdf http://pewtas.googlepages.com/piffle_forever.pdf ---
this is the PDF document which I am referring to.
Download the *PIFFLE FOREVER* Book in PDF format (Adobe Portable Document
Format).and in the right-hand column is the File Size: 830 Kilobytes
---
To summarize, can someone please help me to change the text in my PDF
document. Note that I have the PDF file but not the source M$ Word file used
to create it. Also, I no longer use M$ Windows XP Home Editon OS... My
system is purely Hardy Heron OS.
I look forward to replies.
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Fond Regards,
Peter Eric (aka 'pew') WILLIAMS
My free website is:
http://pewtas.googlepages.com (or) http://tinyurl.com/yuyejs
(please visit my free website and let me know what you think about it.)
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