How to edit PDF's in linux?

is there something opensource that does the same like adobe acrobat (not the reader)?
thx in advance

skoal wrote:
dp wrote:is there something opensource that does the same like adobe acrobat (not the reader)?
Hmm. Good question Dp. I don't know of any direct manipulation tools which are open source to do what you are asking.
1. But, if you want to do a little reconstructive surgery...
If you've used "latex" and "ImageMagick" before, you could rip all the ASCII text from the PDF, manipulate the Images in GIMP, and reconstruct the PDF's how you see fit using "latex". You might lose some Image quality in the process.
"ps2ascii", "convert", "gimp" and an emulated ".tex" file should do the trick. But, I think I would like to find an open source package myself, to do all that stuff directly as well. I think you said there were 124 pages? Good luck brother...
i already tried something like that ... but unfortunately this file is somehow compressed (in a hex editor i see the first line in ASCII and then lots of "non-human-readable" things ... and at the end (13MB later) some metadata xml)
i do not understand the structure and formats of PDF's but as i then tried to open another PDF from the net successfully and managed to edit text, the conclusion must be, that there are different formats of PDF and the one i have is compressed or something like this (what is PDF/X1?)
skoal wrote:2. * By the way, as dumb as this sounds...Gimp can read most PDF files rather nicely. I know I've opened a PDF file in GIMP before, moved images around and such, saved it to PS format, then reran 'ps2pdf' to recreate the PDF. That might be a workaround after you split the 124 pages up and just want to correct a spelling or two... and for the spelling errors, you could just cut and paste letters from other parts of the document and align it properly. Good 'ole Gimp, what can't it do? The only problem is that you may lose some quality in the process. Maybe playing with the Gimp import settings could minimize that. I tried it with a sample PDF, set the import to "200%" resolution, turned on AA, exported it to ps, ran ps2pdf, and compared it to the original document. I see no difference.
gimp can import PDF's? :shock: :shock: 8)
THANX FOR THIS INFO!!!!
i managed to correct some things with ->ImportToGimp->editIt->ps->pdf
the only thing: the output is _much_ bigger than the original PDF (i suspect that th text is now vectors), but it helped
this "tricks" are really cool, but i see the need of an openPDFeditor ;-)

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