Re: [chat] editing pdf files

[Chris Deigan <chris@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, 2003-12-09 at 00:04, mlh@xxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> On Mon, 08 Dec 2003 19:35:41 +1100
> Russell Davie <rjrd@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> > Hi All
> > what can I use to open and then edit pdf files with out having to use 
> > proprietary software?
> > The adobe and the other os is not the preferred solution...
> > please help
> 
> You can't.  About the best you could do is to convert
> the pdf to html, edit the html and then convert back
> to pdf.

Probably a better way would be convert it to a Post Script (.ps) file
using pdf2ps or XPDF, you can then edit it in the GIMP and convert back
using ps2pdf.

Since HTML may not be able to handle the markup / setting out in the PDF
file.

-- 
Chris
chris@xxxxxxxxxxxx