Comments on: Linux PDF editor for manipulating PDF documents

By: Mike

Mike — Thu, 03 Nov 2011 20:02:33 +0000

“GIMP is almost installed on all Linux distribution”

That’s not true. It was completely installed on mine.

By: Mustafa İrfan Değerli

Mustafa İrfan Değerli — Tue, 27 Sep 2011 12:14:17 +0000

thanks for usefull recommandation :)

By: Rob

Rob — Fri, 16 Sep 2011 10:56:40 +0000

I’ve just tried Inkscape and it seems to work well for editing pdf pages, albeit one at a time.

I can ‘staple’ them back together using pdftk.

pdftk document1.pdf document2.pdf cat output combined-document.pdf

Great site BTW

By: Bill

Bill — Wed, 22 Jun 2011 04:29:04 +0000

Thanks Ajay! That works great!, I did the top portion and kept getting errors trying ot direct to the pdf files (i know next to nothing about Linux – brand new running Ubuntu 11.04) but when I ran your commands it all came together great and is a really good editor except for some encrypted pdf’s.

By: Sanyi G

Sanyi G — Mon, 18 Apr 2011 09:17:20 +0000

I concur. Pdfedit is next to useless – i really wonder why it is being overhyped everywhere you look. Easy annotation such as in windows pdf xchange viewer is not possible. Plus the program is slow and crashes every other minute under Ubuntu 10.10

By: Ajay

Ajay — Fri, 15 Apr 2011 11:43:55 +0000

sudo apt-get update

sudo apt-get install alien

wget -c http://downloads.sourceforge.net/pdfedit/pdfedit-0.3.1-1.i386.rpm

sudo alien -iv pdfedit-0.3.1-1.i386.rpm

By: RF

RF — Sun, 27 Mar 2011 17:05:36 +0000

Several years ago, I found PDF Studio worked well for editing PDFs in Linux and allowed me to add highlighting and notes to PDF documents. I’ve used it in Linux for 3 years now, and although I’ve been hoping for an open source solution that supasses it, I’ve not been able to find anything yet. The latest verion has significant improvements and more features.

By: Warren

Warren — Fri, 14 Jan 2011 20:23:13 +0000

Please, people, what is “this tool?” There are a number of different tools discussed on this page. When you say things like “I find this tool almost useless” or “How to install this tool” or “nice tool,” you have to tell us WHICH tool you’re talking about!

By: Sasha

Sasha — Fri, 14 Jan 2011 09:49:25 +0000

I find this tool almost useless. I opened a PDF document and could not manage to find a way to type text. Ctrl+V does not work either and most surprisingly, there is no undo function. Even pocket calculators have undo. Sorry…

By: Mridhul

Mridhul — Tue, 23 Nov 2010 10:34:22 +0000

How to install this tools in centos/rhel ?

I’m not able to find this in yum repo.

By: Lisa

Lisa — Thu, 07 Oct 2010 19:57:51 +0000

I came across this article just a bit ago and I tried out the pdf editing on linux, I have to say it was great and I now use it whenever I’m on linux, and I think I’m starting to prefer it over pc applications on windows.

By: pral

pral — Sat, 02 Oct 2010 08:16:23 +0000

hey,thanks for the useful post. :)

By: NoobLan

NoobLan — Sat, 14 Aug 2010 19:49:55 +0000

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By: renga

renga — Sat, 07 Aug 2010 13:39:01 +0000

thanks…It was of great help

By: Stuart Naylor

Stuart Naylor — Thu, 10 Jun 2010 23:30:10 +0000

Errm Scribus can not open and edit PDF files, well it has the option but it hasn’t been fully implemented. Gimp opens them as images and for many that isn’t enough.

So for me not the best article apart from pfdEdit which I will try.

By: Maniyeri

Maniyeri — Thu, 03 Jun 2010 07:16:07 +0000

Thanks a lot!!!
very usefull….

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Sun, 18 Apr 2010 04:54:50 +0000

@romunov

PDF escape really does work! Thank you for finding this out!
+ Easy 2 use (after some 1-1.5 hours of trying)
+ Has the most essential tools
- Cannot add pictures
- Sometimes the result is not as you expect (e.g. some text that I added came out of the designated boxes… but that was relatively easy to fix)

By: romunov

romunov — Mon, 05 Apr 2010 07:17:14 +0000

I take it back, online editing @ PDFescape works also with my local characters. Hazzah!

By: romunov

romunov — Mon, 05 Apr 2010 07:07:26 +0000

Unfortunately none of the software above can handle localized characters, rendering themselves useless for my current need. :/

By: Egazoid

Egazoid — Wed, 31 Mar 2010 06:29:04 +0000

I wanted to do something rather simple – translate a PDF written in English into Russian. But it seems there’s some kind of encoding problem (cannot can’t use Cyrillic in PDFedit). I tried different encodings (e.g. KOI8R should be Russian, KOI8U should be Ukrainian) but every time the characters do not display right, I get some symbol-gibberish instead. Anyone with a fix for this problem?