open source pdf writer

[Alex Maynard]

Not sure if pdftk was mentioned already:
(see http://www.accesspdf.com/article.php/20041129175231241)

I think it is command line only but merges, splices, etc. existing pdf
files.

Alex

On Fri, 11 Aug 2006, Evan Leibovitch wrote:

> Kush wrote:
>
> > Does anybody know of any pdf writer which can edit pdf files like
> > adobe distiller does?
> >
> > I have seen many pdf readers --xpdf, kpdf, evince, adobe reader etc
> > and have come across the pdfcreator.sourceforge.net  for simple pdf
> > creation using the ghostscript  system (ps2pdf) but haven't come
> > across a  full blooded pdf editor yet.
>
>
> I'm surprised that nobody yet has mentioned OpenOffice.org.
>
> One of the main features that distinguishes OOo from the Microsoft suite
> is its seamless PDF creation capability. (In fact, MS is having problems
> incorporating PDF features -- even as a free download -- because Adobe
> wants a piece of it.)
>
> Having said that, the PDF capability is export-only -- while you can
> create a very elaborate PDF document using OOo, it can't read an
> existing PDF doc for editing.
>
> Searching "PDF" at Freshmeat offers some possibilities, including
> - "PoDoFo": http://podofo.sourceforge.net/
> - pdfsam: http://pdfsam.sourceforge.net/
> - Multivalent Document Tools: http://multivalent.sourceforge.net/Tools/
>
> Of course, there are the tools included with the "Xpdf" package that
> comes with most Linux distributions, it includes tools that can write
> PDFs as PostScript or PBM bitmaps, or extracts text and images from PDF
> docs.
>
> And lastly, PDFTOHTML, the purpose of which I hope is self-evident:
> http://pdftohtml.sourceforge.net/
>
> Hope this helps.
>
> - Evan
>
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