Path: csiph.com!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: "Carlos E.R." Newsgroups: comp.text.pdf,comp.editors Subject: Re: free app to modify pdf files Date: Wed, 25 Jun 2025 13:19:58 +0200 Lines: 42 Message-ID: References: <102kd6e$b2fc$2@dont-email.me> <102khrt$2448$1@nnrp.usenet.blueworldhosting.com> <102ljce$n6ok$1@dont-email.me> <103f9hm$29m22$7@dont-email.me> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: individual.net 1Ii66fNhqtHyVK2+ecCmagI/CuM45tjONsjXEG4HblyGnx6mgV X-Orig-Path: Telcontar.valinor!not-for-mail Cancel-Lock: sha1:VRHDKeM60qGdXfW3OcED+JCQKKA= sha256:2p5eADAg6NC+VV6u4ecZhS3u9hExBHhGWPUBuB/t1Ok= User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird Content-Language: es-ES, en-CA In-Reply-To: <103f9hm$29m22$7@dont-email.me> Xref: csiph.com comp.text.pdf:2693 comp.editors:106801 On 2025-06-25 00:40, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote: > On Tue, 24 Jun 2025 22:58:31 +0200, Dom Adso von Melk OSB wrote: > >> On Sun, 22 Jun 2025, Peter Flynn wrote: >> >>> I'm curious to know WHY you want to edit a PDF, which was designed as a >>> non-editable end-of-line format. >> >> Two possible reasons. >> >> - I want to add annotations (e.g. I periodically dump my bank account >> record of transactions, and wanto to add a sequence number to each >> operation) ... procedure, open pdf with libreoffice, place my text >> label, (re-)export as pdf, quit original file unsaved > > I would save the result in a database (e.g. SQLite) or at least a CSV > file, for easier further processing. PDF is not suitable for that kind of > record. I get the record of transactions from my bank as an excel file (they say). It can be a .csv file, but sometimes it is actually an html file with tables. LibreOffice Calc opens them all just fine. > >> - I receive from some administration a pdf document containing a form >> (it is NOT a "pdf form", their fault) which in principle should be >> filled, signed, printed, scanned and returned (sic!) instead .,, >> >> ... open pdf with libreoffice, insert wished text, insert scanned pmg >> woith my signasture, export as pdf andf send resulting file > > I tend to do that with Inkscape. I can import the PDF file as background, > lock that layer against further changes, and put my data entry in a > separate layer. That way I can get things nicely lined up with the blank > field areas. Then re-export the completed result to a new PDF file, as you > said. I do the same, with LibreOffice writer. -- Cheers, Carlos.