[plug] edit pdf's under linux?

[rpowersau at gmail.com]

On 9/1/05, W.Kenworthy <billk at iinet.net.au> 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.

flpsed may handle that:

http://packages.debian.org/unstable/graphics/flpsed

"a WYSIWYG pseudo PostScript editor

flpsed is a WYSIWYG pseudo PostScript editor. "Pseudo", because you
can't remove or modify existing elements of a document. But flpsed
lets you add arbitrary text lines to existing PostScript 1 documents.
Added lines can later be reedited with flpsed. Using pdftops, which is
part of xpdf one can convert PDF documents to PostScript and also add
text to them. flpsed is useful for filling in forms, adding notes
etc."


> 
> BillK
> 
> 
> On Thu, 2005-09-01 at 11:20 +0800, W.Kenworthy wrote:
> > Does anyone know of an app that can edit pdf's under linux?  Seems such
> > a thing doesn't exist.  I am downloading pdf995 to try under wine, but
> > are there other alternatives?  I am not keen on acrobat distiller
> > because of some of the things adobe does (web access by the app)
> >
> > BillK
> >
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Regards,
Russ