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sean

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Sep 26, 2006, 11:50:08 AM9/26/06
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Hello All,

Can anyone recommend an application to edit a pdf file, and I am
running 64 bit Gentoo, so it needs to be compatible?

Thanks,
Sean
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Christopher E. Granade

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Sep 26, 2006, 1:30:06 PM9/26/06
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sean wrote:
> Hello All,
>
> Can anyone recommend an application to edit a pdf file, and I am
> running 64 bit Gentoo, so it needs to be compatible?
>
> Thanks,
> Sean
In general, PDFs aren't very editable after having been made. What kinds
of edits did you need to make?
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Philip Webb

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Sep 26, 2006, 2:00:19 PM9/26/06
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060926 sean wrote:
> Can anyone recommend an application to edit a pdf file

root: root> eix pdftk
* app-text/pdftk
Available versions: 1.12
Homepage: http://www.accesspdf.com/pdftk
Description: A tool for manipulating PDF documents

root: root> which pdftohtml
/usr/bin/pdftohtml
root: root> equery belongs /usr/bin/pdftohtml
app-text/poppler-0.5.3 (/usr/bin/pdftohtml)

> I am running 64 bit Gentoo, so it needs to be compatible?

It's easy to test them & find out (smile).

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Piotr Gąsiorowski

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Sep 26, 2006, 2:10:09 PM9/26/06
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On Tue, 26 Sep 2006 17:39:05 +0200, sean <tech...@verizon.net> wrote:

> Hello All,
>
> Can anyone recommend an application to edit a pdf file, and I am
> running 64 bit Gentoo, so it needs to be compatible?
>
> Thanks,
> Sean

OpenOffice Writer can easily export your documents as PDF files, but for
editing existing PDFs - I don't know :(.

Regards,
Piotrek
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Mauro Faccenda

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Sep 26, 2006, 2:10:12 PM9/26/06
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On Tuesday 26 September 2006 12:39, sean wrote:
> Hello All,
>
> Can anyone recommend an application to edit a pdf file, and I am
> running 64 bit Gentoo, so it needs to be compatible?

kword can import from .pdf files.

hope it helps.

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b.n.

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Sep 26, 2006, 2:20:19 PM9/26/06
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Mauro Faccenda wrote:
> On Tuesday 26 September 2006 12:39, sean wrote:
>> Hello All,
>>
>> Can anyone recommend an application to edit a pdf file, and I am
>> running 64 bit Gentoo, so it needs to be compatible?
>
> kword can import from .pdf files.
>
> hope it helps.

I don't think this is what the OP wanted but... wow. I didn't know it. I
just tried, it's not always perfect but it works.
It's one of these secrets of free software that should be more widely known.

m.
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Friedrich Göpel

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Sep 26, 2006, 3:50:09 PM9/26/06
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On 11:39 Tue 26 Sep , sean wrote:
> Hello All,
>
> Can anyone recommend an application to edit a pdf file, and I am running 64
> bit Gentoo, so it needs to be compatible?
>
> Thanks,
> Sean

Hi,

As it happens I was just faced with the same question and found this:
http://applications.linux.com/article.pl?sid=05/01/06/0612209

Mostly the comments are interesting.
If you just need to fill out a form or similar you can use gimp,
but if you need to do proper editing apparently scribus is the best
tool according to this.

Hope this helps.


Cheers,

Friedrich Göpel
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p...@twin.jikos.cz

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Sep 26, 2006, 5:50:13 PM9/26/06
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hi,

> Can anyone recommend an application to edit a pdf file, and I am
> running 64 bit Gentoo, so it needs to be compatible?

does the following ebuild works for you ? :
http://atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz/~sanda/pdfedit/

expect unimplemented features and bugs.
better than nothing :)

pavel
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Andrew Gaydenko

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Sep 26, 2006, 6:50:08 PM9/26/06
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Pavel,

I have tried that ebuild (with patch) and got linking error shown below.


Andrew
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../xpdf/xpdf/libxpdf.a(GlobalParams.o): In function `GlobalParams::GlobalParams(char*)':
GlobalParams.cc:(.text+0x4277): undefined reference to `paperinit'
GlobalParams.cc:(.text+0x427c): undefined reference to `systempapername'
GlobalParams.cc:(.text+0x428c): undefined reference to `paperinfo'
GlobalParams.cc:(.text+0x4296): undefined reference to `paperpswidth'
GlobalParams.cc:(.text+0x42af): undefined reference to `paperpsheight'
GlobalParams.cc:(.text+0x42c5): undefined reference to `paperdone'
../xpdf/xpdf/libxpdf.a(GlobalParams.o): In function `GlobalParams::GlobalParams(char*)':
GlobalParams.cc:(.text+0x4a7f): undefined reference to `paperinit'
GlobalParams.cc:(.text+0x4a84): undefined reference to `systempapername'
GlobalParams.cc:(.text+0x4a94): undefined reference to `paperinfo'
GlobalParams.cc:(.text+0x4a9e): undefined reference to `paperpswidth'
GlobalParams.cc:(.text+0x4ab7): undefined reference to `paperpsheight'
GlobalParams.cc:(.text+0x4acd): undefined reference to `paperdone'
collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
make[2]: *** [pdfedit] Error 1

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p...@twin.jikos.cz

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Sep 26, 2006, 8:20:07 PM9/26/06
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> I have tried that ebuild (with patch) and got linking error shown below.

most i can say is that it works on my x86 box (gcc-3.3.6,binutils-2.16.1-r2).
(the patch is not needed to apply; ebuild will do.)

many reasons possible why linker doesnt find the reference and i'm not
going to debug it...

Uwe Thiem

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Sep 27, 2006, 2:20:10 AM9/27/06
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On 26 September 2006 22:16, b.n. wrote:
> Mauro Faccenda wrote:
> > On Tuesday 26 September 2006 12:39, sean wrote:
> >> Hello All,
> >>
> >> Can anyone recommend an application to edit a pdf file, and I am
> >> running 64 bit Gentoo, so it needs to be compatible?
> >
> > kword can import from .pdf files.
> >
> > hope it helps.
>
> I don't think this is what the OP wanted but... wow.

Why not? Import PDF -> Edit -> Export PDF (well, print as PDF).

Uwe

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p...@twin.jikos.cz

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Dec 25, 2006, 4:10:07 PM12/25/06
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> Pavel,
>
> I have tried that ebuild (with patch) and got linking error shown below.
>
>
> Andrew
> ______________________
>
> ../xpdf/xpdf/libxpdf.a(GlobalParams.o): In function `GlobalParams::GlobalParams(char*)':
> GlobalParams.cc:(.text+0x4277): undefined reference to `paperinit'
> GlobalParams.cc:(.text+0x427c): undefined reference to `systempapername'
> GlobalParams.cc:(.text+0x428c): undefined reference to `paperinfo'
> GlobalParams.cc:(.text+0x4296): undefined reference to `paperpswidth'
> GlobalParams.cc:(.text+0x42af): undefined reference to `paperpsheight'
> GlobalParams.cc:(.text+0x42c5): undefined reference to `paperdone'
> ../xpdf/xpdf/libxpdf.a(GlobalParams.o): In function `GlobalParams::GlobalParams(char*)':
> GlobalParams.cc:(.text+0x4a7f): undefined reference to `paperinit'
> GlobalParams.cc:(.text+0x4a84): undefined reference to `systempapername'
> GlobalParams.cc:(.text+0x4a94): undefined reference to `paperinfo'
> GlobalParams.cc:(.text+0x4a9e): undefined reference to `paperpswidth'
> GlobalParams.cc:(.text+0x4ab7): undefined reference to `paperpsheight'
> GlobalParams.cc:(.text+0x4acd): undefined reference to `paperdone'
> collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
> make[2]: *** [pdfedit] Error 1

hi,
this bug should be fixed now. you can find 0.2.3 version in sunrise overlay.

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