[Scribus] Editing PDF's

Gregory Pittman gpittman
Sun Apr 24 16:08:09 CEST 2005


Kevin Walzer wrote:

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> A related question to the thread today about editing PDF's produced by
> Scribus:
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> Anyone know of any FOSS tools that can actually edit PDF files, in a way
> analogous to Adobe Professional, i.e. "touch-up text," add/delete pages,
> etc? I actually have need for this in my publishing business, especially
> with Adobe approaching Microsoftian (or should that be Macromediastic?)
> proportions. I'm aware of pdftk, but it doesn't allow for editing of
> text, though a few of its functions (moving pages, etc.) look 
> interesting.

This brings up a question that no doubt someone can answer: Why is the 
translation of a Scribus .sla file to PDF a one-way process?  Why 
couldn't Scribus "undo" a conversion to PDF?

(the poster  formerly known as Greg)




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