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edoc · Posted: Tue 24 Aug 2010, 11:07 Post subject: How to edit a PDF?

This is not ready for the How-To area of the Forum since I don't understand these instructions.

My specific variables:

1. The document arrived sideways so it had to be rotated 90 degrees clockwise (to the right).

2. When I click on Add Text and a location on the form and I type my text and hit Enter the text displays sideways.

3. The PDF Edit Documentation says "Note: When pages are rotated the text can appear unrotated. This is because the text uses own transformation matrix than the whole page.", which is nice I suppose, but provides no guidance as to what that means in terms of resolving the problem.

QUESTIONS:

A. How does one fix the incorrect orientation of added text?

B. Is there a more simple step-by-step set of instructions for 99% of users, which is simply adding text to a common PDF form, please?

aarf · Joined: 30 Aug 2007 Posts: 3620 Location: around the bend

open office? to realign and save the pdf then edit the newly saved pdf afterwards

edoc · Posted: Tue 24 Aug 2010, 16:46 Post subject:

I loaded Wary 060 and was a able to print from there.

OpenOffice generated several pages of garbage characters when I tried to open a one-page PDF with a logo and company name at the top and the rest a text form.

Is there an add-in required for OO to handle PDF?

BTW: On another thread it is suggested that the PDF problem in CUPS 1.4.3 is due to mismatched font sets.

Go here and scroll down a bit ...
http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?p=445026#445026

scsijon · Posted: Tue 24 Aug 2010, 22:34 Post subject:

openoffice 3.2 or greater should work/[u], maybe add the sfs and update though.

i have used oo 3.2 to read pdf ok, haven't tried a mod or write.

regards
scsijon

edoc · Posted: Tue 24 Aug 2010, 23:48 Post subject:

I have 3.21, no-go here.