This is why I still use Windows so I can have Adobe Acrobat Professional
so I can quickly and effectively edit pdfs with out butchering them with
a export from pdf to ps to zxy program back to pdf.
Ron Youvan wrote:
>> I have a PDF, I need to go into it and change some text,
>> I do not want to export it to another format and change it and then
>> export
>> it back, I am not trying to generate a NEW document, the one I am
>> looking
>> at presently exist all done, I just need to go into the text body and
>> change
>> about 30 -40% of what is in there and then close it up and put it to
>> use.
>> Here is the pdf I need to change:
>> http://www.xpondr.com/041202/flood_advisor.pdf
>
>> The text that is to the right of the photo at the top left of the pdf
>> is where
>> I need to do some changes.
>
> My understanding is that a pdf file is merely a compressed ps file,
> so a
> special program would have to be developed to edt a compressed file
> without
> first uncompressing it.
>
> Any LINUX program that displays a pdf should "print it to a file" in
> the ps form.
> ps files can be converted to image or text files depending on how they
> were created.
> I don't know anything that will load a ps file to edit it.
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