Hello Sridhar and All Australian Ubuntu Users, I visited the [2] site you mention below, eg: [2] Open source, java: <a href="http://www.pdfsam.org/?page_id=10" target="_blank">http://www.pdfsam.org/?page_id=10</a> And it _sounds_like_ a good idea. However, when I went to download the executable version, I could only see a M$ Windows installable version and I think also there was a Macintosh version there too. I downloaded the M$ Windows version and it appears to have run and installed correctly using WINE. However, when I use the WINE menu to run the program nothing seems to happen. I also downloaded the java source code for the above program. Unfortunately, even though the source file *appear* to be included, I don't know how to compile it, and there seems to be no instructions included with the source files. This is rapidly seeming to be one job that will go into my "too hard" basket. *SMILE* Someone mentioned that OpenOffice.org 3.0 *should* be able to edit PDF files. I'm thinking that maybe my best option will be for me to wait for OO 3 to be released and try it. Thank you for the info and efforts you have made to try to help me with this problem. *SMILE* Fond Regards,               Peter Eric (aka 'pew') Williams from North Hobart, Tasmania, Australia <div class="gmail_quote">2008/6/23 Hamish Carpenter <<a href="mailto:Hamish.Carpenter@its.monash.edu.au">Hamish.Carpenter@its.monash.edu.au</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">Sridhar Dhanapalan wrote: <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> On Sat, 21 Jun 2008 at 15:40, "Peter Williams" <<a href="mailto:pewtas@gmail.com" target="_blank">pewtas@gmail.com</a>> wrote: <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> 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> ] </blockquote> 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. </blockquote> </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> </blockquote></div> -- 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.)