![]() ![]() Something though that is an irritating problem with it is that if I make some mistake in highlighting something. Since writing my last post re PDF Editor I've sometimes had problems with it, though for simple highlighting of important points in a pdf file its still helpful. if you haven't found something to your liking yet, this is probably worth trying. I've seen a couple of other much older notes in Debian forums re pdfedit, at least one re simple uses such as I need. ![]() By checking your (dilberts_left_nut) links, and some others, I found the links that I copied as described above. Its working well for what I wanted (highlighting lines in pdf files), so I'm a happy camper. It included all the packages, including qt3 stuff, that it seems to have needed. I'm not sure what one worked, but at least 1 did, then pdfedit (0.4.5-1) showed up as an option I could select for installation with Synaptic. Within Synaptic>Settings>Repositories>Other Sources I added 4 links to Debian Squeeze. > Seemed to work ok when I tried it a while ago, but haven't used it much. > I think it is installable in wheezy from the squeeze debs (if you get the dependencies too and are careful about it). PDF Studio is another non-free software that runs on GNU/Linux that I've never used. Master PDF Editor is a proprietary software that has a free-as-in-beer version for non-commercial use. The tool pdfchain allows you to do some manipulating with a GUI interface for CLI tools. Most things you can do with the command-line tools, which some people find too complex. This thread discusses how to compile it yourself, but since it's from 2008 the qt3 dependencies were available from the repositories, so *if* those dependencies are still there (they may not be anymore) you'd need to make them available too and it would tend to get complicated.įor more or other editing functions, keep reading below. You could translate the thread here if you want to try installing it anyway: You're right, PDFEdit is not in Wheezy, apparently because it has or then had a qt3 dependency. These are all free as in beer but not as in freedom. Foxit Reader probably also does this there is a very basic GNU/Linux version and the Windows version may work under WINE. ![]() I believe Adobe Reader on GNU/Linux fills forms, it's easy to figure out how to install it. Just do a quick web search to figure out how to install it. PDF-XChange has many useful features and runs well under WINE. If you just need to fill forms and don't mind loading your documents onto a third-party server, there is PDFescape. Both of those seem clumsy solutions to me. You can also use Inkscape to fake the filling of forms by inserting a text field wherever desired and exporting as PDF. You can fill forms with GIMP, but the result will become rasterized. As I recall, however, they don't save the form information inside the PDF file itself, so if you send the document you filled out to someone else it would probably be empty for them. Okular and I think Evince will both fill and save forms in PDF. There is precious little free PDF editing software, and the ones that exist are not polished. ![]()
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