[plug] edit pdf's under linux?

Russell Steicke r.steicke at bom.gov.au
Thu Sep 1 12:34:01 WST 2005


On Thu, Sep 01, 2005 at 11:34:17AM +0800, W.Kenworthy wrote:
> I want to extract a 6 pages from an existing 209 page pdf which I dont
> have the source for, change a line of text and add an explanation why,
> and save it as a new pdf.  So I need a way to edit it, not create a new
> one from scratch which I can do in a number of ways.

pdf2ps file.pdf - | psselect -p100-105 | sed 's/old text/new text/' | ps2pdf - newfile.pdf





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