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[glene77is]

@disciple

[disciple]

[rcrsn51]

[glene77is]

"easyPDF v2.3"

rcrsn51 is always a good advisor !
but, this time, "easyPDF v2.3" did not execute fully in Slacko Puppy 3.3.

I have Puppy 5.25 in a subdir.
I have Puppy Slacko in a subdir.
Both share data subdir.
I just reboot and select which ever I need.

You obviously have more experience than me.
Thanks for the try !

[Sajid]

Is there a way with Puppy to install only Lib re Office Draw? Or do I have to install the entire suite? If you have any confusion then you connect the site administrator by PDF reader . he solve your problem . http://www.pdf.com/Home

[Dromeno]

I like the Foxit PDF editor best. It is a windows application but it is small and works great via wine.

[musher0]

Hello, people.

Tip from the penniless editor

I've perused some of the above suggestions, but the following is the best
no-cost (aka free or freeware) solution I've found so far:

* split your PDF in separate pages (a technique also known as "burst")
with pdfsam -- in its own folder
* install the most recent version of the PDF extension in Open/Libre Office
* edit your doc page by page in Open/Libre Office
* export your edited page as a pdf under a slightly different name
* once you've finished editing all your pages, use the "merge" function in
pdfsam to reconstitute your edited pdf pages into a complete document.

The above works reasonably well if you only need to edit lines, for touch-
ups, because in this context, the OpenOffice extension allows you to work
your text line by line. If you try to edit more than one line at a time with
this OO extension, you'll likely create a mess...

For long sentences, paragraphs and/or more extensive edits, it will always
be a lot easier for you if your client can send you the original *.doc
document to work on. Working with the entire document in Open Office,
you can use the follow-up function (or not), and edit your text as you
ordinarily do with all the OO features at your finger tips.

You simply export your entire edited document as a PDF file once you've
finished (again, under a slightly different filename).

I hope this helps someone. BFN.

musher0

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References:
PDFSAM: http://www.pdfsam.org/
OO PDF extension: http://extensions.openoffice.org/en/project/pdf-import-apache-openoffice

[musher0]

It's like what real-life publishing used to be 30 years ago:

on the galleys (the PDF file being the modern equivalent), you only edited
the few remaining typos; the writers strived to make the text coming out
of the Wang Word Processor as error-free as possible. You didn't edit on
screen then, you printed your article triple-spaced and edited it on paper.

I remember that for a particular magazine, we were three editors in a
row reading and editing the whole content one after another, each of us
having a pencil of a different color. The secretary then introduced the
colored changes in the document file, and only after that was done, was
the corrected content sent to the type-setter ("Barb", not to name her)!

And there were still 5-6 typos left in the printed mag -- against a total of
+/- 30,000 words per issue, mind you...

My point here is: edit 3-4-5 times (don't be shy!) in the word-processor
document. Don't even try to do any substantial editing in the PDF file, it's
counter-productive; edit only the glaring errors in your PDF.

[tallboy]

https://www.pdflabs.com/tools/pdftk-the-pdf-toolkit/

tallboy

[smokey01]

Whenever I have to populate a PDF form I use Xournal. It's included in FatDog.

http://xournal.sourceforge.net/

Cheers

[rufwoof]

[Geoffrey]

MasterPDFeditor, a Qt commercial product, but the Linux-based version is free for non-commercial use.
http://code-industry.net/free-pdf-editor.php

[smokey01]

[disciple]

Does the current version of masterpdfeditor still make the pdf fonts ugly?

[Geoffrey]

Don't look to bad, though the "i" can get a little close to the letters on the right of it at different zoom levels.