topic title: pdf editor
Posts: 70
bbwf
Joined: 19 May 2013
#1
LibreOffice Version 4.2 has a nifty pdf editor.
Prior to 4,2, you needed to download the proper extension.
They included it in the programming of LibreOffice, so things just work.

Open LibreOffice Draw
Open pdf file
Get in there and edit.
Save file as .odg
reopen in libreoffice writer
export as pdf
viola

I found converted word or text files work the best.
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jdmeaux1952
Joined: 01 Nov 2013
#2
What about PDFEdit (
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SamK
Joined: 21 Aug 2011
#3
bbwf wrote:LibreOffice Version 4.2 has a nifty pdf editor.
Prior to 4,2, you needed to download the proper extension.
They included it in the programming of LibreOffice, so things just work.
On this system (13.2-Full-Stable) LibreOffice is v4.0.3.3. The following enabled opening a PDF for editing in LibreOffice via the usual File-->Open.

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apt-cache policy libreoffice-pdfimport
libreoffice-pdfimport:
  Installed: (none)
  Candidate: 1:4.0.3-2~bpo70+1
  Version table:
     1:4.0.3-2~bpo70+1 0
        500 http://antix.daveserver.info/stable/ stable/main i386 Packages
     1.0.5+LibO3.5.4+dfsg2-0+deb7u2 0
        500 http://ftp.uk.debian.org/debian/ wheezy/main i386 Packages

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sudo apt-get install libreoffice-pdfimport

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apt-cache policy libreoffice-pdfimport
libreoffice-pdfimport:
  Installed: 1:4.0.3-2~bpo70+1
  Candidate: 1:4.0.3-2~bpo70+1
  Version table:
 *** 1:4.0.3-2~bpo70+1 0
        500 http://antix.daveserver.info/stable/ stable/main i386 Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
     1.0.5+LibO3.5.4+dfsg2-0+deb7u2 0
        500 http://ftp.uk.debian.org/debian/ wheezy/main i386 Packages
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bbwf
Joined: 19 May 2013
#4
( Master PDF Editor (
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Thank You,
I gave it a spin around the block. It's a bit processor hungry, however, it is well made and does a fine job without all the needed conversions.
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kdd
Joined: 30 Sep 2013
#5
jdmeaux1952 wrote:What about PDFEdit (
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pdfedit doesn't work with qt4, yet. you can build it if you want to install qt3. all the needed libs and programs are in the readme file. great looking program. will wait for qt4 support, unless it's already here.

i have found pdfsam to do the job of split/merge.

cheers