[Novalug] Making an editable PDF?

Dan Arico dan_arico at aricosystems.com
Sun May 27 19:51:41 EDT 2007


On Sun May 27 2007 7:45 pm, Rich Goodwin wrote:
> I want to make some PDF's which are editable by someone.  I am just
> starting to look into this and will check out PDF Toolkit (pdftk).  In
> the meantime, I'm curious if anyone has created such and might be abl
> eto offer any insights such as do this but DON'T do that...
>
> Rich

Depends on exactly what you want to do.

I've used Scribus to create pdf files, but the original Scribus file was 
needs to do editing.

There are tools to extract the text and pictures (pdftotext, pdftoppm), 
but after you edit them, you have to reassemble the document.

Dan Arico

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