Posted by: Anonymous Coward
on January 07, 2005 03:46 AM
I am using KDE's kword quite regularly to "edit" PDFs. It is astonishing how well it works for most documents I come across (this may change for a while, if Acrobat 7 takes off on the market, and untill Ghostscript 8.50 is more common on Linux distros).
kword opens even multi-page PDF documents for editing. Of course it doesnt edit the original PDF format either -- it imports the PDF into its own native, standard OASIS document format and lets you decide how to save it: PDF again, or *.kwd, *.doc, *.sxw, *.htlm....
Admittedly, sometimes, with some very sophisticated layouts, you may run into probles with kword: margins may need adaption, etc. Also, you need to make sure you have all the fonts installed (but that is not different from any Windows manipulation software of PostScript or PDF files).
Then there is Scribus! How can someone who knows such an obscure tool like flpsed (hehe, I use it myself occasionally<nobr> <wbr></nobr>;-) dare to not mention Scribus?
You can easily get and build one of the latest CVS version for upcoming Scribus-1.3 if you are a guy who does even compile "alpha" software like flpsed.
Scibus-1.3 is so astonishing in its capabilities. And it is rock-solid for me, even the daily builds of my CVS checkout. Scribus lets you import PostScript/(PDF) too. And then the fun starts: all the ex-PS "objects" are prone to your manipulations: you can drag elements to a different place, colorize them differently, resize, rotate and scale them, convert glyphs and shapes into paths and bezier curves and what-not. After you are done, export to PDF again. The resulting PDF is on par with, no -- better than ! -- Windows software. All pre-flight tools let the result pass.
Of course, you need fonts installed, and Little CMS (color management) and Ghostscript 8.50 for the best results.
Last word about kpdf: that one lets you also now do some really really brilliant stuff with PDFs. But you'll have to wait for KDE-3.4 to see the latest features. (Previous versions of kpdf and kghostview sucked big time -- but in the near future kpdf will certainly be one of the shiny new diamonds in KDE's crown.)
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Posted by: Anonymous Coward on January 07, 2005 03:46 AMkword opens even multi-page PDF documents for editing. Of course it doesnt edit the original PDF format either -- it imports the PDF into its own native, standard OASIS document format and lets you decide how to save it: PDF again, or *.kwd, *.doc, *.sxw, *.htlm....
Admittedly, sometimes, with some very sophisticated layouts, you may run into probles with kword: margins may need adaption, etc. Also, you need to make sure you have all the fonts installed (but that is not different from any Windows manipulation software of PostScript or PDF files).
Then there is Scribus! How can someone who knows such an obscure tool like flpsed (hehe, I use it myself occasionally<nobr> <wbr></nobr>;-) dare to not mention Scribus?
You can easily get and build one of the latest CVS version for upcoming Scribus-1.3 if you are a guy who does even compile "alpha" software like flpsed.
Scibus-1.3 is so astonishing in its capabilities. And it is rock-solid for me, even the daily builds of my CVS checkout. Scribus lets you import PostScript/(PDF) too. And then the fun starts: all the ex-PS "objects" are prone to your manipulations: you can drag elements to a different place, colorize them differently, resize, rotate and scale them, convert glyphs and shapes into paths and bezier curves and what-not. After you are done, export to PDF again. The resulting PDF is on par with, no -- better than ! -- Windows software. All pre-flight tools let the result pass.
Of course, you need fonts installed, and Little CMS (color management) and Ghostscript 8.50 for the best results.
Last word about kpdf: that one lets you also now do some really really brilliant stuff with PDFs. But you'll have to wait for KDE-3.4 to see the latest features. (Previous versions of kpdf and kghostview sucked big time -- but in the near future kpdf will certainly be one of the shiny new diamonds in KDE's crown.)
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