Comments on: List of PDF Editing tools for Ubuntu

By: Cedric B.

Cedric B. — Tue, 24 Jan 2012 09:27:09 +0000

Have you tried Qoppa PDFStudio Pro 7?
It’s the best alternative for Adobe Writer under Ubuntu/Linux

By: sena

sena — Wed, 28 Dec 2011 13:27:07 +0000

fllpsed is really great. Simple but very effective. This is what I have been search for. Thanks for sharing

By: Silvio Levy

Silvio Levy — Thu, 01 Dec 2011 09:42:20 +0000

My vote for xournal. I was looking for something quick
to allow me to scribble on an article. Tried inkscape and could only open one page. Then tried xournal and it worked immediately.

By: John M.

John M. — Wed, 14 Sep 2011 21:36:22 +0000

Should the title of this article really be “list of free PDF editing tools for Ubuntu”? Because if it’s not only the free tools you’re talking about, I don’t understand how PDF Studio didn’t make the cut. It’s definitely the most user friendly and best PDF tool on Ubuntu.

By: robert leleu

robert leleu — Mon, 21 Mar 2011 22:04:26 +0000

I just installed flpsed in ubuntu 10.04.
It comes in the graphic section of the menu, under the appelation of “flpsed PDF annotator” and indeed opens PDF files….and annotates

By: Josh Dillon

Josh Dillon — Mon, 21 Feb 2011 16:05:07 +0000

I made a wrapper of some of these tools for quick and easy pdf margin cropping (faster than pdfcrop, for example). There is also a version that turns two-column pdfs into kindle sized pages.

http://smlv.cc.gatech.edu/2011/02/10/auto-crop-pdf/

By: Deepak

Deepak — Sat, 27 Nov 2010 18:27:22 +0000

I like pdfsam for adding and removing pages as well as shuffling pages arounf in a pdf file.

By: L.R.

L.R. — Tue, 24 Aug 2010 20:43:55 +0000

There are no free PDF tool that can do it all on Ubuntu. I use PDF Studio, very complete and affordable.

By: exkludge

exkludge — Wed, 02 Jun 2010 09:29:47 +0000

The PDF Import Extension for Openoffice worked for me… thanks!

By: Satya

Satya — Tue, 12 Jan 2010 04:51:30 +0000

I have tried pdftk. It’s the perfect tool I was looking for! Thanks for the information.

By: Mårten Svantesson

Mårten Svantesson — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 14:44:50 +0000

Pstoedit is a useful tool to convert PDF (and Postscript) to various formats. I have in the past used it to convert to FIG-format, that I then could edit in XFig.

I have also occasionally converted PDF to Postscript using pdf2ps (from Ghostscript) or pdftops (from XPdf) and then pasted the Postscipt file in XFig to be able to add elements.

http://www.pstoedit.net/

By: John M

John M — Sat, 24 Oct 2009 10:49:07 +0000

I’m going to have to try out a few of these alternate PDF tools. I use flpsed sometimes and tried to use Pdfedit on my netbook, but Pdfedit is just so slow it makes me want to tear my hair out just waiting for it to respond. I use the import feature in OOo instead right now and it works OK, but it could be better. It would be nice to have a really good, responsive PDF editor and hope one of these others will work for me.

By: Niall Mansfield

Niall Mansfield — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 07:01:47 +0000

We’ve used Scribus successfully to edit PostScript files, which can be converted to/from PDF.

We found this very useful for some legacy graphics and logos. The were supplied to us only as images, and they were produced so long ago that even if we had the source files, the (commercial, Mac) graphics program the designer used might not exist any longer.

By: Required name

Required name — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 02:18:35 +0000

I frequently have a need to compile multi-page PDFs from JPG files, either scanned or from a camera.

I simply open them in the same directory with GQview, renaming them if I need to (this also is a way to organize them by name, say, by numbering them.)

I then print them from GQview to a postscript file. Any individual highlighted file becomes part of a multi-page postscript document with the file names on the page bottom.

I open the postscript file in KPDF and then print it to a PDF file. Done.

Most of the PDF files I’ve made this way are around 50 pages.

GIMP will also open existing PDF files as pages, which then can be converted to image files. You can then edit them as you see fit and then go through the postscript-to-PDF process outlined above.

I’m sure there are other ways to do this, but just showing there are alternatives to a specialized PDF editing program.

To create from scratch, I usually go the PDFLaTeX route.

By: josh

josh — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 10:01:40 +0000

PDF-Xchange Viewer(windows free app) with cxoffice is great to marked lines in pdf. try is easy to install.

By: Michael Manning

Michael Manning — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 09:13:43 +0000

Has anyone tried Scribus? Not sure how the editing of an existing PDF goes, but as a desktop publishing app it creates very nice PDF output.

By: logik

logik — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 19:22:32 +0000

Don’t forget about PDFSam (split and merge) written in java
http://www.pdfsam.org
sudo apt-get install pdfsam

By: Ray

Ray — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 18:25:17 +0000

pdf-Shuffler is not pdftk
Yes, pdf-Shuffler is great for simple manipulation of pages, but with pdftk you can a lot more.
For example, decompress a pdf and edit it using a simple text editor then compress it back. A simple search-replace is sometimes all you need to edit the pdf.

By: Andy

Andy — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 17:24:05 +0000

Is this section a typo? It seems to conflate two separate programs.

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Using GIMP

Install krita using the following command

sudo apt-get install krita

Open the Gimp, and open the PDF document you wish to edit. For multiple page documents, it is easier on your computer to edit them one page at a time. If you choose more than one page, they will open in individual windows.

Make the necessary changes to the document.Save the document as a Gimp XCF file (you’ll have to save several different pages if it is a multi-page document). Close the document, then open the resulting image in Krita.

Printing to PDF with Krita Go to File>Print, then choose Print to PDF. In the same dialogue box, choose the destination folder and name of the output document (such as file1.pdf).
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By: Bart

Bart — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 12:40:40 +0000

ImageMagick can handle pdf’s just as if it where an ordinary image files.

Only drawback is that it rasterizes the pdf in the process.