Xournal: how to use for an existing pdf?

Colin Law clanlaw at googlemail.com
Tue Dec 6 18:01:20 UTC 2011


On 6 December 2011 17:51, NoOp <glgxg at sbcglobal.net> wrote:
> On 12/06/2011 06:54 AM, Amedee Van Gasse wrote:
>> On Tue, December 6, 2011 15:34, Linda wrote:
>>
>>> You can't edit it, it is the background, but you can white
>>> out the information and place new information over the top.
>>> One cavet, if you white out information and export as pdf,
>>> when the pdf is opened it will show the original information
>>> for a moment before the whiteout is placed over the top so
>>> for instance if you want to remove sensitive information do
>>> not send them the altered pdf. I print out the file and
>>> rescan for such things.
>>
>> In your very particular use case, I recommend that you use the full Adobe
>> Acrobat product. Yes I am recommending you a commercial product that may
>> or may not work on Linux.
>>
>>
>
> Inkscape does a very nice job for editing. Edit and then print back out
> as a PDF with a different name so that you still have the original.

Well I did not know you could use Inkscape for PDF.  Thanks for that
gem of knowledge

Colin




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