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mgh · Joined: 03 Mar 2012 Posts: 8

I have spent a few hours but have found no working solution.

Have downloaded a PET file for both PDFEdit, and Foxit, but neither work. FDFEdit will not even open, Foxit will open, but then when I try to open a PDF file it closes.

Both programs are in the menu.

I have slacko 5.3.1.

really like Okular that I am using with Bodhi Linux.

I know others are having same problem, but I found no solution here on the forums.

Any suggestions?

Thanks

darkcity · Joined: 23 May 2010 Posts: 2544 Location: near here

its strange neither package worked.

did you install them from the Puppy Package Manager?

if not where did you get them?

looks like pdfedit needs libqt-3.3.8 installed.

more info here-
http://puppylinux.org/wikka/pdf

8-bit · Joined: 03 Apr 2007 Posts: 3425 Location: Oregon

Try running PdfEdit from a terminal.
The terminal should show you what files are missing and needed

mgh · Joined: 03 Mar 2012 Posts: 8

I can find nothing in the Puppy package manager under document or business for a PDF editor.

When I tried to run pdfedit via console, I got message "error while loading shared libraries, libaudio.so.2"

Unfortunately I am too new to Puppy to know how to find and install the library I am missing.

I will keep trying. Thanks for the help

Henry · Joined: 29 Jul 2006 Posts: 865 Location: Oregon USA

The best editor I have found is Draw. Open the pdf in Draw. Edit it. Export as pdf.

mgh · Joined: 03 Mar 2012 Posts: 8

Jasper · Joined: 25 Apr 2010 Posts: 1350 Location: England

Hi,

I'm also using Slacko 5.3.1 and the sfs version of LibreOffice works well and seems low on resources so it may not matter if you cannot install Draw as a standalone program.

My regards

mgh · Joined: 03 Mar 2012 Posts: 8

I'll give LibreOffice a try.

darkcity · Joined: 23 May 2010 Posts: 2544 Location: near here

PDFedit 0.45 works in Polarpup 005 and Wary 5 see-

http://murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=70259

not much help if your on slacko ; -)

mhanifpriatama · Joined: 22 Jan 2011 Posts: 60

I use inkscape 0.48 (not lite). But, you can only edit page by page.
Then, you can merge those pdf (use peasypdf, just write on terminal).
Note: you just open inkscape, then open pdf file, choose the page that what you want. After edit, save with .pdf filetype.
And, you must have font installed like in pdf's file.

mhanifpriatama · Joined: 22 Jan 2011 Posts: 60

This is a way to extract font from pdf and install to puppy.

First, download a script from this :
http://svn.ghostscript.com/ghostscript/trunk/gs/toolbin/extractFonts.ps

place extractFonts to a directory (example /root)
place your pdf's file to that directory
open terminal
type : cd /root then enter
type : gs -q -dNODISPLAY extractFonts.ps -c "(somefile.pdf) extractFonts quit"

open the directory with rox. Copy *.ttf to /root/.fonts (you must make that directory).

Puppyt · Joined: 09 May 2008 Posts: 676 Location: Gatton, Queensland

I'm also in the hunt for an excellent pdf editor, but one that manages pages - reordering and cropping, differently to the way you seem to be describing. Have a look at "pdfshuffler" here http://murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?p=329125#329125. I just wish I knew how to compile, or I might have a bash at constructing a pet of the latest version of the software here: http://sourceforge.net/projects/pdfshuffler/.

disciple

glene77is · Joined: 17 Aug 2010 Posts: 119 Location: Memphis, TN, USA

@darkcity,

disciple · Posted: Thu 15 Nov 2012, 16:17 Post subject: