Any Linux software for editing and converting PDF files?

[Gernot Hassenpflug]

On Thu, Feb 28, 2008 at 5:37 AM, NoOp <glgxg at sbcglobal.net> wrote:
> On 02/27/2008 08:23 AM, Bas Roufs wrote:
>  > Dear everybody
>  >
>  > Could you advise me any Linux software by means of which I could:
>  > * edit PDF files
>  > * convert them into other formats suitable for websites, like HTML?
>  >
>  > Thanks for your advise.
>  >
>  > Bas.
>  >
>
>  Try pdftohtml (http://sourceforge.net/projects/pdftohtml/) then edit the
>  html. You can also try pdfedit (universe repository) for editing the
>  PDF, but it's generally easier to edit the html.

For editing PDF, there is pdftk and pdfedit both of which can do
useful ops, but nothing serious like extracting images from a PDF.
However, pdfedit has a pretty nice GUI and has saved my butt a few
times when some pages in a PDF produced with latex simply insisted on
remaining rotated the wrong way. I have also had luck installing
Acrobat 7 under wine, but your mileage may vary.

In many cases, you will have better luck with linux utilities (like
poster, for example, very useful) if you convert your PDF first to
postscript (PS) and then manipulate using various command line
utilities (mostly using ghostscript as a backend) before converting
back to PDF as needed.