How to edit a PDF file with Open Office

Some months ago I’ve looked for a decent PDF editor for Linux. Results? Only an application called PDFedit was interesenting enought.

PDFedit (http://sourceforge.net)

Now, an extension (plugin) for the cross platform suite Open Office called PDF Import do the magic with a nice PDF import for Open Office Draw.

Open Office (http://www.openoffice.org)
PDF Import (http://extensions.services.openoffice.org)

I’ve tested it on a simple PDF document (v. 1) and the result is amazing. With Open Office, you can rewrite a PDF, save it as Draw document and export the modified version as PDF format with the handy PDF conversion tool.

Since PDF is a widely used format, you can use tool like this to download documents that require some changes before print (e.g. a paper form) without awful cut-and-paste onto an editor.

Related links:

• http://sourceforge.net/projects/pdfedit/ a PDF editor for Linux / cygwin
• http://extensions.services.openoffice.org/project/pdfimport an extension to open and modify PDF with Open Office

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