Date: Fri, 12 Oct 2012 12:47:23 -0400 From: "illoai@gmail.com" <illoai@gmail.com> To: freebsd@dreamchaser.org Cc: FreeBSD Mailing List <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: editing pdf files Message-ID: <CAHHBGkozes7sg890PLtHbU54zsyXdHX3dGNtB4eOBjEjuUuveA@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <5074A6B9.8040209@dreamchaser.org> References: <5074A6B9.8040209@dreamchaser.org>
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On 9 October 2012 18:35, Gary Aitken <freebsd@dreamchaser.org> wrote: > Can someone give me advice on editing pdf files? > I have some forms I'm trying to fill out that contain labels followed by > a bunch of underline characters and all I need to do is delete some of the > underlines and add text. > > I tried using pdfedit but the modified file doesn't display properly. I assumed > it would take care of text placement, etc., but it did not produce readable > results. For example, removing underline characters and replacing them with > "340007174" only displays "3400014"; "75-300mm" displays as "-300mm". Am I > missing something or does it just not work? > > Does anyone have any experience with the open office oracle pdf import extension? > I don't see it in the ports collection, > and I am not sure whether to even try using the linux version. > That a file is a .pdf doesn't tell you much about it, actually. If the .pdf is just an image (eg a scanned document) you can perhaps import it into gimp, or export it as a .png. You might be able to OCR it, I don't know. If it's a proper text document saved as a .pdf, you can surely import it into open- or libre-office & edit it from there. You might also be able to export it as a .ps (using perhaps print/gv or graphics/xpdf, or perhaps one of the tools from graphics/poppler) & edit it with an even wider variety of tools. Yet another option would be to use google docs (or similar), which generally allows viewing & perhaps editing as an HTML document. I don't know if google docs allows re-export back to .pdf, though. -- --
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