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pemasu
 Joined: 08 Jul 2009 Posts: 5174 Location: Finland |
There is also pdftk and pdfchain which gives gui for pdftk. I created eons ago pets for them for Lucid Puppy. I believe the pets in Lucid Puppy repo are little wrongly packaged. These versions works. They need all libgtkmm,libcairomm, libglibmm,libpangomm framework. Those should be in Lucid Puppy...still ? Libgcj and libgcj-common were needed also in dpup exprimo. After installing those it works in dpup exprimo also, I installed the libs from debian repo. http://pdfchain.sourceforge.net/ http://www.pdflabs.com/tools/pdftk-the-pdf-toolkit
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Henry
Joined: 29 Jul 2006 Posts: 812 Location: Oregon USA |
Thanks, Pemasu, Good to know. (My puppy is too old to have the dependencies.) But anyone using Linux who is a serious enough writer to be editing pdfs should probably be using LibreOffice anyway (instead of the troublesome Abiword) and will already have most of these facilities "paid for" in the sfs. Henry BTW I just tried pdfchain. Of course it didn't run, missing a dependency, but when I uninstalled it it left about 5 Mb of residue in the save file. After this many years of Puppy I have "restore from backup" down to an art ! |
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disciple
Joined: 20 May 2006 Posts: 6198 Location: Auckland, New Zealand |
The other main one out there is Podofo.
Yes, or by drag and drop. But I've just done some testing, and as I expected: - the import/export process is quite slow. - the page content is "messed up": some pictures have disappeared, the size and spacing of a lot of text has changed slightly, and some of the colours have also changed very slightly. As you can see, the distinction is not without a difference 
They've done a pretty amazing job with libreoffice, and I'm sure for a lot of documents and a lot of purposes it will be fine, but I'll still be recommending people use something like Pdfshuffler if they don't need to edit the page content.
Hmmm. I don't see any connection between being a writer and editing PDFs. e.g. in fields like civil engineering the most regular users of Acrobat Standard are the CAD drafters, most of whom aren't writers at all. But anyone writer with sense would be using some sort of Latex system. Word processors are just trouble if you need to write serious reports or something. _________________ DEATH TO SPREADSHEETS - - - Classic Puppy quotes - - - Beware the demented serfers! |
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disciple
Joined: 20 May 2006 Posts: 6198 Location: Auckland, New Zealand |
Was the residue really there? I've found that sometimes freememapplet doesn't indicate that space has been freed up until quite a while afterwards. _________________ DEATH TO SPREADSHEETS - - - Classic Puppy quotes - - - Beware the demented serfers! |
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Henry
Joined: 29 Jul 2006 Posts: 812 Location: Oregon USA |
The principal bug I've seen (just now) is the loss of full justification, resulting in a ragged right. This is serious, and will I expect be fixed. Haven't lost any pictures. BTW, I assume you are using the latest LO-3.5.1? Does pdfedit have bugs - just asking; I haven't used it.
Sounds a bit ad hominem. Writers can be quite opinionated about their tools. I won't pursue that except to note that I have written and published a catalog of successful books however innocent of LaTeX. www.henrystrobel.com |
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Henry
Joined: 29 Jul 2006 Posts: 812 Location: Oregon USA |
Yes, the residue was really there although I didn't bother to identify it. It was still there after a reboot. It's not unusual for .pets to do this. |
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Henry
Joined: 29 Jul 2006 Posts: 812 Location: Oregon USA |
The last time I tried to run pdfedit was some time ago. I just tried it again this evening with pdfedit-0.4.5-i486.pet and libqt-mt.so.3. This is the first time I've seen it; I guess it is working but haven't been able to absorb it yet. I can see there's a lot there - easy to use?- dunno. |
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disciple
Joined: 20 May 2006 Posts: 6198 Location: Auckland, New Zealand |
No, not really. _________________ DEATH TO SPREADSHEETS - - - Classic Puppy quotes - - - Beware the demented serfers! |
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Henry
Joined: 29 Jul 2006 Posts: 812 Location: Oregon USA |
I had sometime back filed a bug report on the jusification errors when Draw is used as a pdf editor. See: https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=47730 The bug was accepted by LibreOffice but not yet fixed. I would guess it's a tough one. A pdf editor is a tough one in any case, and here it's an adaptation of the old Sun extension. It works surprisingly well, all things considered, on simpler, smaller, left justified documents. Far from perfect, but I have used it on a few occasions. The reason I'm writing now is that, having just installed the new stable LibreOffice 3.5.2.2 I can confirm it's no better in this area. (Thanks again to 01micko for the LibreOffice downloader-installer that makes it so easy.) BTW, here's a good overall review article for pdf editors. http://www.bestfreeonline.net/best-free-pdf-editor/ |
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Henry
Joined: 29 Jul 2006 Posts: 812 Location: Oregon USA |
Update on Bug 47730 - Editing pdf in Draw corrupts text justification Here is my reply to LibreOffice today: ==================================
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disciple
Joined: 20 May 2006 Posts: 6198 Location: Auckland, New Zealand |
Except that it doesn't cover most of them... it isn't really an overview of anything _________________ DEATH TO SPREADSHEETS - - - Classic Puppy quotes - - - Beware the demented serfers! |
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Henry
Joined: 29 Jul 2006 Posts: 812 Location: Oregon USA |
The latest release of LibreOffice includes a much improved Draw, which is really useful as a pdf editor. I was pleased to help with this now cleared bug report. https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=47730 -------------------------------------------------- EDIT: 11 November 2012 I am now using Version 3.6.3.2 (Build ID: 58f22d5) The same bug is back, which severely limits the ability to use Draw to edit pdfs with fully justied text. (It removes the right side justification, making it "ragged right." I have REOPENED this bug report. https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=47730 Edited_time_total |
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disciple
Joined: 20 May 2006 Posts: 6198 Location: Auckland, New Zealand |
Interesting: on my decade old machine running Linux I get decent performance when importing PDFs to libreoffice. On a newer Windows machine at my work with much higher specs the performance is so rubbish as to be unusable. It takes hundreds, probably thousands of times as long to open the same pdf(s), and then to do anything in them... _________________ DEATH TO SPREADSHEETS - - - Classic Puppy quotes - - - Beware the demented serfers! |
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