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://downloads.sourceforge.net/pdfedit/pdfedit-0.3.1-1.i386.rpm Download the rpm file from http://sourceforge.net/projects/pdfedit/ and install it with:

sudo alien -i pdfedit_0.3.1-1_i386.rpm

Installing PDFedit 0.3.1: Method 2

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install alien
wget -c http://downloads.sourceforge.net/pdfedit/pdfedit-0.3.1-1.i386.rpm
sudo alien -iv pdfedit-0.3.1-1.i386.rpm

You're Done!

Afterwards, you should able to launch PDFedit with the command

pdfedit

Ubuntu 7.10 Gutsy

PDFEdit is in the universe repository of gutsy. Be aware that at the moment gutsy is in development state and by this is not to be expected stable! Please be patient until gutsy is officially released (Oct. 2007)

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