PDF editor

ultraincognito · Guru Joined: 03 Jun 2011 Posts: 346 Location: Ukraine

Which do you use pdf editor in the Linux nowadays? I don't like GIMP for this matter. And I don't want install qt libraries. Suggest me something.

smartass · Posted: Sun Jan 29, 2012 11:19 am Post subject:

Hi, PDF editing in the land of free software has been something a little hard, because PDF is a format made by Adobe and they provide their own non-free tools to manipulate PDF files. I often have to reside to using Foxit under Wine if I want to add comments and other things (No, Okular just saves them in a cache).

However, there is free software for some kinds of editing other than annotation.

For manipulating permissions and merging pages: PDFTK
For manipulating PDF with vector precision graphics : Inkscape (in GTK+

)

And when possible, try to persuade people to send you the source files (like *.tex) for the PDFs, so you can make the changes directly in them.
Libreoffice has also some kind of PDF import, but that is questionable, however, it may work for simpler stuff.

And I don't edit PDFs in GIMP, because it just exports them into a bitmap and then you edit that.... So definitely Inkscape for this kind of editing

ultraincognito · Guru Joined: 03 Jun 2011 Posts: 346 Location: Ukraine

Understood. Now I'll be looking on the PDF with a contempt. I've added it to my own list of things that I hate. PDF must die!
I think the Libreoffice can open the PDF but cannot save.
I don't want Inkscape because it is too complex.
Thanks for PDFTK. Shall try.

smartass · Posted: Sun Jan 29, 2012 2:26 pm Post subject:

Yeah, Inkscape may appear a little too complicated at first, but if you learn to use it, trust me, you will never regret it

ultraincognito · Guru Joined: 03 Jun 2011 Posts: 346 Location: Ukraine

Okay, I shall learn Inkscape.

ferreirafm · Posted: Wed Aug 27, 2014 1:29 pm Post subject:

Try this really nice pdf editor:
http://code-industry.net/free-pdf-editor.php
G'Luck

i92guboj · Posted: Wed Aug 27, 2014 2:05 pm Post subject:

I am no expert in the matter, but a couple of months ago I discovered by pure accident (silly DE file associations and misclicks, you know) that I could edit most PDFs just like I edit a word processor document by using the libreoffice drawing program (lodraw).

Sometimes some pictures are misplaced, but for the most part it works very well. To tell the truth, I was greatly surprised by this little accident.