[ale] is there an open source program permitting creating/editing of PDF files ?

James Sumners james.sumners at gmail.com
Wed Jun 3 13:07:01 EDT 2009


A quick Google search for "pdf annotator gpl" gives me this
interesting looking application[1].


[1] -- http://tinyurl.com/kbv78

On Wed, Jun 3, 2009 at 12:49 PM, Jim Philips <briarpatch.jim at gmail.com> wrote:
> The key word here is "unnoticeable". Full Adobe Acrobat will let you add
> highlights and arrows and all kinds of drawn-on doodads. Is there an open
> source tool that will let you do that?
>
> On Wed, Jun 3, 2009 at 12:42 PM, James Sumners <james.sumners at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>>
>> Or install the CUPS PDF printer and create PDFs from any application
>> that can print.
>>
>> PDFs aren't really meant to be edited once they are created. There is
>> a plugin for OpenOffice Draw that makes it possible, but I doubt it
>> works very well. A PDF is meant to be a digital representation of a
>> printed document. Can you make unnoticeable edits to printed paper?
>>


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