Found this on the web at http://www.linux.com/archive/feature/139588 OpenOffice.org extension will add PDF editing By Bruce Byfield on July 03, 2008 (7:00:00 PM)
I tried to edit a PDF file, and I have to report that, on my unicore athlon 64, 2GB ram, it is so painfully slow to edit a PDF file that I had to abandon the effort.
There is a faster pdf editor called flpsed, and is available in the fedora repo. It is much faster, but when I saved the file as a pdf (not a postscript), it could not be viewed by the Adobe Reader, which said that it was corrupt. However, it was readable by Evince, which is also in Fedora repo.
I was unable to use pdfedit in Fedora Repo because it is not a WYSIWYG editor - or at least, I had no idea how to use it to change a PDF file.
Any other pdf editors available that are quick and work?
On Fri, 2011-04-15 at 18:33 -0700, JD wrote:
Found this on the web at http://www.linux.com/archive/feature/139588 OpenOffice.org extension will add PDF editing By Bruce Byfield on July 03, 2008 (7:00:00 PM)
I tried to edit a PDF file, and I have to report that, on my unicore athlon 64, 2GB ram, it is so painfully slow to edit a PDF file that I had to abandon the effort.
There is a faster pdf editor called flpsed, and is available in the fedora repo. It is much faster, but when I saved the file as a pdf (not a postscript), it could not be viewed by the Adobe Reader, which said that it was corrupt. However, it was readable by Evince, which is also in Fedora repo.
I was unable to use pdfedit in Fedora Repo because it is not a WYSIWYG editor - or at least, I had no idea how to use it to change a PDF file.
Any other pdf editors available that are quick and work?
Well there is good news and bad news. The program xournal can edit pdf files. But the bad news is that xournal is needed to read the file.
On 4/16/11, Aaron Konstam akonstam@sbcglobal.net wrote:
On Fri, 2011-04-15 at 18:33 -0700, JD wrote:
Any other pdf editors available that are quick and work?
Well there is good news and bad news. The program xournal can edit pdf files. But the bad news is that xournal is needed to read the file.
You can export pdf from xournal. But I wouldn't call xournal a pdf editor. And, of course, pdf is not meant to be edited.
Andras
On 04/16/2011 06:33 AM, Aaron Konstam wrote:
On Fri, 2011-04-15 at 18:33 -0700, JD wrote:
Found this on the web at http://www.linux.com/archive/feature/139588 OpenOffice.org extension will add PDF editing By Bruce Byfield on July 03, 2008 (7:00:00 PM)
I tried to edit a PDF file, and I have to report that, on my unicore athlon 64, 2GB ram, it is so painfully slow to edit a PDF file that I had to abandon the effort.
There is a faster pdf editor called flpsed, and is available in the fedora repo. It is much faster, but when I saved the file as a pdf (not a postscript), it could not be viewed by the Adobe Reader, which said that it was corrupt. However, it was readable by Evince, which is also in Fedora repo.
I was unable to use pdfedit in Fedora Repo because it is not a WYSIWYG editor - or at least, I had no idea how to use it to change a PDF file.
Any other pdf editors available that are quick and work?
Well there is good news and bad news. The program xournal can edit pdf files. But the bad news is that xournal is needed to read the file.
Huh??? Sorry, I feel rather slow this morning :) Could you please explain the "bad news" part?
I mean, every editor must first "read" the file it will edit into a memory buffer, display it on the screen and then accepts edit commands. Or am I missing something?
On 04/16/2011 06:33 AM, Aaron Konstam wrote:
On Fri, 2011-04-15 at 18:33 -0700, JD wrote:
Found this on the web at http://www.linux.com/archive/feature/139588 OpenOffice.org extension will add PDF editing By Bruce Byfield on July 03, 2008 (7:00:00 PM)
I tried to edit a PDF file, and I have to report that, on my unicore athlon 64, 2GB ram, it is so painfully slow to edit a PDF file that I had to abandon the effort.
There is a faster pdf editor called flpsed, and is available in the fedora repo. It is much faster, but when I saved the file as a pdf (not a postscript), it could not be viewed by the Adobe Reader, which said that it was corrupt. However, it was readable by Evince, which is also in Fedora repo.
I was unable to use pdfedit in Fedora Repo because it is not a WYSIWYG editor - or at least, I had no idea how to use it to change a PDF file.
Any other pdf editors available that are quick and work?
Well there is good news and bad news. The program xournal can edit pdf files. But the bad news is that xournal is needed to read the file.
I just installed it and it seems to do the job rather nicely, albeit, it is really difficult to position the characters in the position where the cursor is. You have to click the cursor almost 3/4 of the characheter's height above where the Character should be, and then type the character. Thanx a lot for the tip.
Cheers,
JD
On Sat, 2011-04-16 at 07:20 -0700, JD wrote:
Any other pdf editors available that are quick and work? Well there is good news and bad news. The program xournal can edit
files. But the bad news is that xournal is needed to read the file.
Huh??? Sorry, I feel rather slow this morning :) Could you please explain the "bad news" part?
I mean, every editor must first "read" the file it will edit into a memory buffer, display it on the screen and then accepts edit commands. Or am I missing something?
No I made a mistake. I missed the Export to pdf option so I thought after you edited the pdf with xournal you couldn't save it as a regular pdf file. That is clearly not true so there is no bad news.
On 04/16/2011 02:32 PM, Aaron Konstam wrote:
On Sat, 2011-04-16 at 07:20 -0700, JD wrote:
Any other pdf editors available that are quick and work? Well there is good news and bad news. The program xournal can edit
files. But the bad news is that xournal is needed to read the file.
Huh??? Sorry, I feel rather slow this morning :) Could you please explain the "bad news" part?
I mean, every editor must first "read" the file it will edit into a memory buffer, display it on the screen and then accepts edit commands. Or am I missing something?
No I made a mistake. I missed the Export to pdf option so I thought after you edited the pdf with xournal you couldn't save it as a regular pdf file. That is clearly not true so there is no bad news.
Well, it turns out there indeed is bad news. Xournal does not or cannot save the edited pdf file in pdf format. It saves it in it's own format - with .xoj extension. That is indeed bad news because if I send the .xoj document to someone, s/he will not be able to open it.
On Sat, Apr 16, 2011 at 2:36 PM, JD jd1008@gmail.com wrote:
Well, it turns out there indeed is bad news. Xournal does not or cannot save the edited pdf file in pdf format. It saves it in it's own format - with .xoj extension.
That is incorrect. You need to export to pdf.
On Sat, Apr 16, 2011 at 6:43 PM, suvayu ali fatkasuvayu+linux@gmail.com wrote:
On Sat, Apr 16, 2011 at 2:36 PM, JD jd1008@gmail.com wrote:
Well, it turns out there indeed is bad news. Xournal does not or cannot save the edited pdf file in pdf format. It saves it in it's own format - with .xoj extension.
That is incorrect. You need to export to pdf.
Also, xournal is not so much a PDF editor as a PDF annotator (additions and markups only) and it does this spectacularly well without adding a lot of size to the original PDF file.
I use it for filling out forms in PDF format that don't have embedded form fields all the time.
But back to the original topic ... I have found both OpenOffice and Inkscape PDF import to be non-reliable. It seems that there are some formats of PDF that make them both fail miserably. But hopefully the import effectiveness improves over time.
/Mike
On 04/16/2011 03:04 PM, Michael Wiktowy wrote:
On Sat, Apr 16, 2011 at 6:43 PM, suvayu alifatkasuvayu+linux@gmail.com wrote:
On Sat, Apr 16, 2011 at 2:36 PM, JDjd1008@gmail.com wrote:
Well, it turns out there indeed is bad news. Xournal does not or cannot save the edited pdf file in pdf format. It saves it in it's own format - with .xoj extension.
That is incorrect. You need to export to pdf.
Also, xournal is not so much a PDF editor as a PDF annotator (additions and markups only) and it does this spectacularly well without adding a lot of size to the original PDF file.
I use it for filling out forms in PDF format that don't have embedded form fields all the time.
But back to the original topic ... I have found both OpenOffice and Inkscape PDF import to be non-reliable. It seems that there are some formats of PDF that make them both fail miserably. But hopefully the import effectiveness improves over time.
/Mike
You hit the nail on the head: I only need to edit textual content - especially in application forms.
Cheers,
JD