[plug] edit pdf's under linux?

[W.Kenworthy]

wont work: even the text is in the form of images and vector strokes.   

My first attempt was like that bsuggested below, though instead of sed I
used gvim. Ive now extracted the pages (as 600dpi png's), edited where
necessary with gimp, saved as postscript, merged with psjoin and am now
converting back to postscript.  The pdftk that others have mentioned is
new to me and I am building it now to check it out.

BillK


On Thu, 2005-09-01 at 12:34 +0800, Russell Steicke wrote:
> 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.
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> pdf2ps file.pdf - | psselect -p100-105 | sed 's/old text/new text/' | ps2pdf - newfile.pdf
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