[aklug] Re: Addios Adobe. Hello Master PDF Editor!

On Friday 13 March 2015 07:13:00 am WestonandSuzy Howard wrote:
> If you are like me, you probably use Linux at your place of employment.
> If you are also like me, you probably are well aware of the fact that
> Adobe stopped supporting Linux. Now they have even pulled Adobe for
> Linux off of their website. Sure, you can still get it in the
> repository, but that will end in time eventually. Or it will become so
> outdated that you just can't use it anymore.
> My work requires that I fill out numerous government forms that are
> created in Adobe. We all have our favorite viewers, but this doesn't
> help us when we need to edit the form itself. Until now. Perhaps you
> are all already aware, but I recently stumbled across "Master PDF
> Editor", an editor that is available on Linux, Windows, and Macintosh
> that can actually edit PDF's created in Adobe.
> While I feel it is a poor viewer for PDF's, and I use others for that
> purpose, it has worked great for editing the government forms that I
> need to fill out, and I've had no complaints from windows users who
> view my forms electronically via Adobe Reader, nor any problems with
> the printed page. At least not yet.
> A quick web search revealed it was available for download free of
> charge from several sources, and was available as source, rpm, or deb
> packages. I got it here: http://code-industry.net/get.pdfeditor.php
>
> Note: it does say that you can download and use it for free, but you
> need to pay for non-watermarked prints. However, I print with it and
> view it and there are no watermarks, so I don't think they got that
> part working in Linux.
>
> Just thought I'd pass this along to any other frustrated Linux users
> who have to routinely edit PDF forms.
>
> -Weston
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i do not need to edit pdf files sent to me, I still operate under the old,old,
school ..pdf are not editable. I do need to fill in forms , shuffle, delete
extraneous pages and to annotate pdf files.

I have used pdftk that Royce mentions, works great if you use it enough to
remember the commands, I do not eseem to be able to do it,same with
ghostscript.

a couple of simple tools, pdfshuffler allows me to add, delete, re-order pages
in a multi page pdf.

xournal is called a note taking app, but I use it to annotate pdf's, it can
insert a graphic.

The linked app at http://code-industry.net/get.pdfeditor.php does it all, not
sure if it is too much in one package for me..trying it out,,not a fan of
free beer or pay for a license, stuff.

-- 
Peace,
Greg
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