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Subject: Re: What is the best free software for creating & editing PDFs nowadays
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On 04/03/2025 16:13, Anton Shepelev wrote:
[snip]
> PDF is meant to be a final format not meant for editing.
> Keep it so.

Nevertheless, I have several times been able to make on-the-fly changes 
and even introduce additional material like running headers or 
paper-type change statements with

pdf2ps file.pdf | sed -e "<stuff>" | ps2pdf newfile.pdf

Peter