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

From: Farrin Reid <blakmatrix@gmail.com>
Date: Sat Mar 14 2015 - 00:02:44 AKDT

Old old skool should be that everything is editable... They're just bits,
heck nothing is sacred in computing.

On Friday, March 13, 2015, Greg Madden <gomadtroll@gci.net> wrote:

>
>
> 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 outdated that you just can't use it anymore.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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