How can I edit the text of a PDF file without having the source file of it?

[Peter Williams]

Hello Sridhar and All,

2008/6/21 Sridhar Dhanapalan <sridhar at dhanapalan.com>:

> On Sat, 21 Jun 2008 at 15:40, "Peter Williams" <pewtas at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Hello Ubuntu-Australia ppl,
> >
> > { I apologize for waffling on (below) however I figured that I was best
> for
> > me to supply too much info rather than not enough. }
> >
> > I have a PDF file (eg an Adobe Portable Document Format) file which I
> > authored quite a long time ago... back when I was using M$ Windows XP
> Home
> > Edition as my Operating System. I now wish to edit the PDF file, however
> I
> > don't know where the source document is, or whether I even HAVE the
> source
> > file. From memory, the file was written using Micro$oft Word, and
> probably
> > printed with PDF995 (M$ Windows print driver which creates PDF
> documents).
> > [ eg PDF995 is available from the website www.pdf995.com ]
>
> PDF is primarily an export format - it was never designed to be edited.
> However, there are some tools out there which can do it - pdfedit and the
> soon-to-be-released OpenOffice.org 3.0 spring to mind.
>
>
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>

Thank you, Sridhar for your reply. I installed "pdfedit" (using Synaptic
Package Manager) yesterday (last night) and I *was* able to successfully
open and display my PDF file, however I don't understand enough about how
pdfedit works to change the text as I'm trying to do.

I will attempt to attach a screenshot of pdfedit editing my file, saved by
me pressing the "Print Screen" key. I don't know whether or not attachments
are permitted by this discussion email list, so this will also be a test of
whether or not attachments are permitted by this email list. I'm trying NOT
to tread on anyone's proverbial toes --- in other words I hope that it's
okay for me to send an attachment with this email message.

Thank you, again. I look forward to any replies.

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Fond Regards,
Peter Eric (aka 'pew') WILLIAMS

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