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donavon
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Hey All,
are there any applications that will enable me to edit a PDF file in Linux. Someone had suggested Kword, but I don;t see that filter in Kword V1.2.
Any suggestions ?
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Germ
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| Posted: Fri Jun 27, 2025 2:30 pm Post subject: |
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Hello donavon. Welcome to usalug.
Acrobat will give you limited editing capability. I think GhostView may, as well.
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mmmna
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This question is a tough but frequently occurring question.
Warning: some of these entries might not be stable, might not be current, might not be standalone, might not do very much, etc.
Until Adobe gets going on Linux versions...
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Create a document in something, convert to PDF:
Lout
-> Per the TeX Frequently Asked Questions page, you can convert PostScript to PDF Via ghostscript and via Pstill
NOTE: LaTeX seems to be interested in creating output from itself to the PDF format, visit their FAQ, use your browser to search for 'PDF' on the FAQ page.
Create a document in XML, output PDF:
FOP
Java based PDF import/creation:
Big Faceless PDF Library
iText
In fact, here is a Freshmeat search for 'PDF', which generated much of the above.
Caveat Emptor, I have never tried any of the above software!
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donavon
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| Posted: Fri Jun 27, 2025 2:52 pm Post subject: |
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Thanks for all the leads.
It's unfortunate for such an ubiquitious software that you cannot easily find a converter to Word.....Thanks to bad feelings from adobe and Microsoft.
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| Posted: Thu Jul 03, 2025 3:38 am Post subject: |
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| well - not editing direct pdfs - but there is htmldoc - this will create a pdf with links in it, better than straight pdf
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mmmna
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Idea - if the output PDF is your own original work, then save your final document 2 times: first save it as PDF, then save it as postscript.
You can always reload the postscript version of the document, edit that and repeat the double save trick (which creates the PDF with the new data).
If you are trying to edit someone elses PDF, I'm still keeping that in mind.
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donavon
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| Posted: Sat Jul 19, 2025 9:31 am Post subject: |
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| I'm trying to edit someone elses PDF document.....any know solutions?
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donavon
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Let get to the point, I am in no way attempting to commit any type of fraud by editing a PDF.
FIrst off, I have a legal copy of Adobe PDF write. Howver, when you open a PDF with it, it's not really made ofr editing, just some basic managemnet of the document. I got an Open PDF doucment from the web and I want to use it as a basis in a white paper, so I need to edit it.
Remember that you can't edit any PDF where the author doesn't give that explicit permission. So therefore any PDF that would be editing would have had permissioon explicitly given by the author.
May I ask, What the heck is the purpose of locking a thread? It it to stop the potential discussion or resolution of the question? What would be the point? There are countless other forums that can provide the solution!
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| Posted: Mon Jul 28, 2025 2:54 pm Post subject: |
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| I think the point was not to stop discussion, but to not try to help edit pdf's where EXPLICIT permission wasn't there. Sorry for the misunderstanding.
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mmmna
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| Posted: Mon Jul 28, 2025 3:02 pm Post subject: I'm sorry, I was a bad editor. |
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| donavon wrote: | | Let get to the point, I am in no way attempting to commit any type of fraud by editing a PDF. |
You never implied such activities, donavon.
I developed that point of view from my own research into the functions of PDF files, I'm sorry that I came across as implying such activities towards you.
| Quote: | | Remember that you can't edit any PDF where the author doesn't give that explicit permission. So therefore any PDF that would be editing would have had permissioon explicitly given by the author. |
I disagree there. Editing any file is technically possible, the skills are all that is needed.
| Quote: | | May I ask, What the heck is the purpose of locking a thread? It it to stop the potential discussion or resolution of the question? What would be the point? There are countless other forums that can provide the solution! |
I understand your point, and I'll make this clear: I as moderator will not allow a discussion to progress to reach a conclusion such that forged documents are generated herein. If crouse, our administrator wishes to override me, that is fine by me. For my part, I did a bad job at forming my post which explained my reasons for locking the thread - I repeatedly edited and edited my response, and in the end, I edited my post poorly; I could have separated my reasons better. I'm sorry for the error.
You have a private message.
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| I think you can use PS2PDF and vica versa to convert between PostScript and PDF. These come with gs/gv. I know OO.org 1.1 can save to PDF but I'm not sure about editing it. If there is some DTP program that can work with PS format, you should be ok.
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| mmmna wrote: | | http://usalug.org/phpBB2/viewtopic.html?t=10314 |
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I'll suggest that any medical records, any government documents should