Any Linux software for editing and converting PDF files?

Bas Roufs basroufs at gmail.com
Wed Feb 27 23:05:38 UTC 2008


Thank you, NoOp! I think your info might help me really much!

Respectfully Yours,

Bas.

NoOp wrote:
> On 02/27/2008 02:03 PM, Bas Roufs wrote:
>   
>> Hello NoOp
>>
>> Just one question remaining.
>>     
>>> Try pdftohtml (http://sourceforge.net/projects/pdftohtml/) then
>>> edit the html.
>>>       
>> I managed to find and download it. However, it's not yet clear to me
>> how to install it. I did not find this in one of the repositories, so
>> I needed to download it directly.
>>     
>
> My apologies... it was in fiesty and then incorporated into
> poppler-utils for Gutsy. You can install via:
>
> sudo apt-get install poppler-utils
> and then:
> man pdftohtml - or just pdftohtml without argument and it will show you
> the options.
>
> Not that there are quite a few handy tools in poppler-utils:
> http://packages.ubuntu.com/gutsy/poppler-utils
> ====
> This package contains pdftops (PDF to PostScript converter), pdfinfo
> (PDF document information extractor), pdfimages (PDF image extractor),
> pdftotext (PDF to text converter), and pdffonts (PDF font analyzer).
> ====
>
>
>   





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