<div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, Mar 8, 2009 at 12:49 AM, nilesh trivedi <<a href="http://nilesh.tr">nilesh.tr</a>@<a href="http://gmail.com">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;"> OpenOffice can export documents as PDF. For reading PDFs, the built-in "evince" document viewer is good enough. </blockquote></div> evince is good to edit pdf's you have two options (atleast) install pdfedit - this takes time to get used to but is useful for minor editing ther other option is , if you have openoffice version 3.0 or later is to install the pdf import extension (available in ubuntu repository) this is *very useful* However there are other options where you can export the pdf to a text file and use the contents ram