Hello Sridhar and All, <div class="gmail_quote">2008/6/21 Sridhar Dhanapalan <<a href="mailto:sridhar@dhanapalan.com">sridhar@dhanapalan.com</a>>: <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> <div class="Ih2E3d">On Sat, 21 Jun 2008 at 15:40, "Peter Williams" <<a href="mailto:pewtas@gmail.com">pewtas@gmail.com</a>> 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 <a href="http://www.pdf995.com" target="_blank">www.pdf995.com</a> ] </div>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. -- "My children - in many dimensions they're as poorly behaved as many other children, but at least on this dimension I've got my kids brainwashed: You don't use Google, and you don't use an iPod." - Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer </blockquote></div> 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. -- Fond Regards, Peter Eric (aka 'pew') WILLIAMS My free website is: <a href="http://pewtas.googlepages.com">http://pewtas.googlepages.com</a> (or) <a href="http://tinyurl.com/yuyejs">http://tinyurl.com/yuyejs</a> (please visit my free website and let me know what you think about it.)