Portable Document Format
Printing PDF files
To print to a PDF use CUPS-PDF
Editing PDF files
The following programs can edit-
PeasyPDF
Convert, build/combine to make a . Can extract from PDF files. Project created by rcrsn51. See the PeasyPDF page for more information.
PDFedit
Can edit many aspects of a pdf document, including text and saves in PDF format.
PDFshuffler
Can re-arrange PDF documents by splitting, merging, cropping etc. For this purpose it is easier than PDFEdit. It saves in PDF format. PDFShuffler requires Python, see the following threads-
Inkscape
GIMP
Can import PDF, see GIMP GIMP page.
OpenOffice.org with Sun PDF Import Extension
The PDF Import Extension allows you to import and modify PDF documents. Best results with 100% layout accuracy can be achieved with the “PDF/ODF hybrid file” format, which this extension also enables. A hybrid PDF/ODF file is a PDF file that contains an embedded ODF source file. Hybrid PDF/ODF files will be opened in OpenOffice.org as an ODF file without any layout changes. Users without this extension can open the PDF part of the hybrid file with their PDF viewer.
The PDF Import Extension also allows you to import and modify PDF documents for non hybrid PDF/ODF files. PDF documents are imported in Draw to preserve the layout and to allow basic editing. This is the perfect solution for changing dates, numbers or small portions of text with a minimum loss of formatting information for simple formatted documents.
Features:
* Text attributes like font family, font size, weight (bold, not bold), style (italic, not italic) are imported together with their respective text
* Retain font appearance, when a PDF file uses a font not installed on your system, the font is replaced with the best alternative font
* Converts images and vector graphics
* Each line in a paragraph is converted into one text object
* Import of password-protected PDF files
* Import shapes with default style
* Support for colors and bitmaps
* Backgrounds remain behind other elements
Okular
KDE PDF editor, not yet available for Puppy Okular homepage
Xpdf
Works with PDF's black over white Xpdf
PDF reading
AdobeReader
See the AdobeReader page for more information.
Evince
Foxit
Related Webpages
How to edit a PDF?techrepublic reference
pdf-import-hybrid-odf-pdfs-extension
list-of-pdf-editing-tools-for-ubuntu
