PDF995 is just a re-distribution of PDFCreator, which uses the gnu ghostscript driver. So in theory as everyone else has said you can use pdf2ps or any gnu pdf to text converter to convert it back and edit away. <div class="gmail_quote"> On Mon, Jun 23, 2008 at 9:21 AM, Hamish Carpenter <<a href="mailto:Hamish.Carpenter@its.monash.edu.au">Hamish.Carpenter@its.monash.edu.au</a>> wrote: <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">Sridhar Dhanapalan wrote: > 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> ] > > 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. </div>It is possible to treat a PDF like a canvas and draw a white box with new text over the old text. This is usually done programmatically and can take a lot of fiddling. It would also be possible to splice the original PDF with a new page replacing the one with the old url. This is probably the easiest approach. PDF::Reuse [1] will do this for you in perl but its API is reasonably complicated, there may also be GUI tools for this including PDF Split and Merge [2]. Extract pages 1 to 4 and 6 to 16. Create a new page 5, merge back together. [1] <a href="http://search.cpan.org/%7Ensharrock/PDF-Extract-3.02/lib/PDF/Extract.pm" target="_blank">http://search.cpan.org/~nsharrock/PDF-Extract-3.02/lib/PDF/Extract.pm</a> [2] Open source, java: <a href="http://www.pdfsam.org/?page_id=10" target="_blank">http://www.pdfsam.org/?page_id=10</a> -- ubuntu-au mailing list <a href="mailto:ubuntu-au@lists.ubuntu.com">ubuntu-au@lists.ubuntu.com</a> <a href="https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-au" target="_blank">https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-au</a> </blockquote></div> -- Regards Morgan Storey, Senior Network and Security Consultant.