basic PDF editor for Ubuntu - tips?

[chris at martin.cc]

You may what to have a look a "pdfmod".
It does all thing you asked. edit title, authour keywords, add/remove page
reorder & rotate pages.

But you cant edit a page.  I use pdfedit for that. (but I don't like it)

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Chris Martin
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On Wed, Mar 2, 2011 at 9:23 PM, David <agora at justemail.net> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> could someone please tell me what they recommend as a basic PDF editor
> with GUI for Ubuntu?
>
> Basically I would like to A) be able to edit the meta information in an
> existing PDF (saving a webpage to PDF via "print" in Ubuntu 8.04 does a
> great job, but the title of the webpage isn't carried over into the
> PDF's tag info - it's all blank), and B) to be able to delete a page
> from the PDF.
>
> I've looked in Synaptic and seen PDF Editor there, but there are very
> mixed opinions about it in forums I looked at. E.g.:
>
> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> http://www.wikihow.com/Edit-PDF-Files-in-Linux-Using-PDFEdit
>
> "This is still labelled "Alpha" software by the author, it shows, so
> don't get your hopes up that it will work for you to any extent other
> than a few functions. Most annoying is it randomly saves the page you've
> last edited as completely blank."
>
> [He mentions these too:]
> scribus
> flpsed
> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
>
> Another user wrote:
>
> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> "pdfedit crashes my system, when i do get to save any work, it puts all
> pages over each other in one page -> garbage.
>
> scribus does not want to load my pdf -> not useful.
>
> flpsed looks like a program from the 90s that doesn’t do much more than
> display the pdf."
> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
>
> Thanks for any tips from your experience!
>
> Dave
>
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