Why PDFedit?

People sometimes like to edit PDF documents. KWord has the ability to import, edit, and re-export PDFs, but the formatting often gets messed up during import. pdfjam is a command-line tool that allows you to do some sophisticated PDF manipulating (rotating, combining, splitting), but it also has limitations, and sometimes people are more comfortable with a point-and-click graphical user interface (GUI).

Installing PDFedit: Method 1

in the GUI

Download [http://3v1n0.tuxfamily.org/pool/edgy/3v1n0/pdfedit_0.2.5-0+3v1ubuntu1_i386.deb this file] to your desktop. Then double-click it.

in the terminal

wget -c http://3v1n0.tuxfamily.org/pool/edgy/3v1n0/pdfedit_0.2.5-0+3v1ubuntu1_i386.deb
sudo dpkg -i pdfedit_0.2.5-0+3v1ubuntu1_i386.deb

For Ubuntu 7.04 Feisty Fawn you may use the PDFEdit package from http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/universe/p/pdfedit/ Download the deb file according to your computer architecture and install it with:

sudo dpkg -i pdfedit_0.3.1-1_i386.deb

The example above is for i386, it may vary depending on the architecture you are using. E.G. pdfedit_0.3.1-1_amd64.deb for 64bit architecture, pdfedit_0.3.1-1_powerpc.deb for PowerPC architectue and pdfedit_0.3.1-1_sparc.deb for Sparc architecture.

Installing PDFedit: Method 2

PDFEdit 0.2.5 is obsolete. Please download the current version from: http://sourceforge.net/projects/pdfedit/

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install alien
wget -c http://internap.dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/pdfedit/pdfedit-0.2.5-1.i386.rpm
sudo alien -iv pdfedit-0.2.5-1.i386.rpm

You're Done!

Afterwards, you should able to launch PDFedit with the command

pdfedit

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