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Idea #8517: Effective and Easy PDF Editor

bug This idea is a duplicate of Idea #7385: Provide a decent PDF editor.
Written by majiq the 14 May 08 at 03:40. Category: Graphics. Related project: Nothing/Others. Status: New
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In Windows, there's Adobe Acrobat Professional to work on PDFs with. You can annotate, create/join, edit (to an extent) PDFs using it. Also, there's Adobe Illustrator to work on PDFs effectively, to make interactive PDFs as well. We need a program in Linux to do the same because of the portability and ubiquity of PDFs.
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Solution #1: Auto-generated solution of idea #8517
Written by majiq the 14 May 08 at 03:40.
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Solution #2: OpenOffice addon: PDF import
Written by malathion the 19 Sep 09 at 22:45.
OpenOffice has a PDF Import addon that allows editing PDF files through Draw. It's a terrific PDF editor. Perhaps this addon could be packaged?

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filipf wrote on the 14 May 08 at 06:00
Checkout
http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/idea/7385/

Some folks have pointed out that Inkscape can handle PDF editing now. I tried it and it works well, but it's on page-by-page basis. PDFEdit is another editor, but it needs more work.
Cheers!

fazillatheef wrote on the 14 May 08 at 08:10
now inkscape can create pdf

krs wrote on the 14 May 08 at 08:33
Inkscape can create AND edit PDF.

krs wrote on the 14 May 08 at 08:34
Like Illustrator indeed, not like Acrobat Pro.

Eldmannen wrote on the 14 May 08 at 09:31
LaTeX, Inkscape, OpenOffice, etc.

You can create PDF from any application, using the virtual PDF printer.

logari81 wrote on the 14 May 08 at 12:53
Inkscape is super but it doesn't offer a native pdf-manipulation rather than an import - export pdf solution.

PDF Editor does native manipulation of pdfs but is pretty buggy and too complicated.

I think we really need a nice gui for pdf editing.

roberthr wrote on the 14 May 08 at 13:04
I use gscan2pdf which is a great tool for scaning images to PDF and also for basic manipulation of PDFs - not only scanned. It can import, add, delete and rotate PDF pages. It should be included as default PDF manipulation tool under Gnome environment.

Primož Papič wrote on the 14 May 08 at 14:45
Also try Scribus it's similar to Adobe Inline 8or something like that; previous adobe pagemaker)

noodlesgc wrote on the 14 May 08 at 17:11
check out the Open Office 3 improvements.

thiemster wrote on the 15 May 08 at 00:07
something like kPDF would be a good reader. at least it has more functions

hishnash wrote on the 15 May 08 at 11:25
open office 3 will support opening pdf files.

cson wrote on the 17 May 08 at 03:22
You also my want to try one of the online alternatives:

PDFescape, a pretty full featured PDF editor and form filler
http://www.pdfescape.com

PDF Hammer, a very simple PDF page rearranger
http://www.pdfhammer.com

kyleskrinak wrote on the 6 Jun 08 at 10:10
I do heavy PDF editing (including metatagging) and there's no tool comparable to Adobe Acrobat for linux. I hate to be rude but pdfedit is useless -- its like a non-proof of concept. I will check out inkscape.

pierre.slamich@gmail.com wrote on the 27 Jun 08 at 17:19
http://www.apple.com/macosx/features/300.html#preview
Have a look at how it's handled on Leopard. Drag and drop in the viewer.


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