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Looking for a Free PDF editor

  • 12-04-2010 1:27pm
    #1
    RolandIRL
    Closed Accounts Posts: 11,924 ✭✭✭✭


    hi all,
    i'm looking for a free pdf editor to just insert notes, or change some text. been looking around on download.com and sourceforge.net, but all i could find was something on sourceforge.net but it wasn't working for me - http://sourceforge.net/projects/pdfedit/

    so any suggestions?

    thanks


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  • #2
    mp22
    Moderators, Business & Finance Moderators, Regional South Moderators Posts: 6,854 Mod ✭✭✭✭mp22


    I might be wrong but that software looks like it is for linux operating systems.


  • #3
    Jen32
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 58 ✭✭Jen32


    You can edit PDF's in Open Office. Just import them into Draw (PowerPoint equivalent), make the edits and export them again as hybrids. I use it all the time and it's excellent

    http://download.openoffice.org/


  • #4
    brian ireland
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,647 ✭✭✭brian ireland


    Jen32 wrote: »
    You can edit PDF's in Open Office. Just import them into Draw (PowerPoint equivalent), make the edits and export them again as hybrids. I use it all the time and it's excellent

    http://download.openoffice.org/

    +1


  • #5
    RolandIRL
    Closed Accounts Posts: 11,924 ✭✭✭✭RolandIRL


    Jen32 wrote: »
    You can edit PDF's in Open Office. Just import them into Draw (PowerPoint equivalent), make the edits and export them again as hybrids. I use it all the time and it's excellent

    http://download.openoffice.org/

    just tried doing that with OpenOffice, but it's coming up in Writer as a load of garble, not in Draw. tried with 2 different files. the first one was one with a lot of maths handwriting in it (an assignment i scanned into the computer), but the second was a document with loads of text. a dialog box comes up with "ASCII Filter Options" as the heading asking to set properties for Character Set, Font Type, and Language. know what to do?


  • #6
    Jen32
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 58 ✭✭Jen32


    My apologies...i think i had to install a little add-on to do this. The reason you're getting the ASCII dialog box is because Writer doesn't recognise the PDF file and is trying to open it as a text file. Download the little add-on below and install it...make sure to follow the guide

    http://www.ghacks.net/2009/07/28/open-and-edit-pdf-files-in-openoffice/


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  • #7
    roberthurley14
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 105 ✭✭roberthurley14


    try CutePDF


  • #8
    RolandIRL
    Closed Accounts Posts: 11,924 ✭✭✭✭RolandIRL


    that openoffice plugin works, thanks. though some pdfs are coming out as inverted colour. that assignment i handed in came out as the writing white on a black background. this ever happen to ye?


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