Drawing, presentations, annotations in PDF documents.
Whyteboard- a very useful and necessary program that acts as a regular whiteboard for drawing, or for making comments and annotations in PDF-documents, which allows you to create quite acceptable presentations. The program is quite simple and effective, it is not overloaded with all sorts of settings, of course they are there, but the bare minimum and a partially customizable interface. This application is quite suitable for ordinary drawing, as in Gnome Paint, but still the fundamental purpose is presentational/anatational changes in PDF-files.
Pseudo-console viewer of PDF documents.
Zathura- pseudo-console viewer PDF V Linux, surprisingly light as a feather and fast as lightning, equipped with a minimalist interface with an accentuated use of the keyboard, i.e., all control is carried out on the “keyboard”. The name “pseudo-console” is due to the fact that the program has an interface, but at the same time, there are no controls at all; all these capabilities are veiled in the keyboard controls.
DiffPDF- a very good application, in graphical design, designed for comparing files PDF, or rather, the presence of differences between them. The program is equipped with a simple, unpretentious interface, with a minimum number of settings. The display language used may be English, but this is compensated by easy accessibility of understanding. There are three modes for comparing documents with each other: text, symbolic, visual. The program can find discrepancies in texts, diagrams, and also identify differences at the formatting level.
Editing PDF files in LibreOffice.
To edit files PDF V Ubuntu 13.04, programs specially designed for this can, not only, be counted on the fingers of one hand, but counted on one finger, one hand. The only application I know of is the one that was presented a few articles below. It turns out that the well-known and popular office suite LibreOffice, also knows how to perform this task, but for this, you will need to perform several minor movements. To get started, go to this link and download the required file for your architecture:
I completely “licked” all the material from another resource, I’m too lazy to do anything today and think with my head, therefore, read well, other people’s thoughts are also good thoughts, if true, they are also not strangers, although, what’s the difference.
gPDFText- simple GTK+ editor that allows you to load text content PDF files (reformatting paragraphs into long lines), converting the content into plain text. The app was created by Neil Williams ( Neil Williams).
Master PDF Editor- this tool is already a real, powerful editor for working with files PDF, which can also act as a regular document viewer of this format. The program is presented as an application that is easily understandable for both beginners and more advanced users. Despite its commercial origins, Master PDF Editor- can be used free of charge, subject to its personal, non-commercial use. There are variations for the main, popular operating systems: Windows, Linux, Mac OS.
PDF Mod- a very good, small application for articulation / dismemberment PDF-files together or vice versa. This is perhaps the main task for which this program exists and there is practically nothing else except small additions. The fact is that on most Internet resources, PDF Mod- presented as a lightweight editing application PDF-documents, and no matter where you look, it’s the same everywhere, it’s even somehow annoying. I must tell you that there is nothing in this program for real editing, as such, except for the ability to change the name of the document itself, but this can be done perfectly well without the program.
Couturier PDF Combiner- a fast, simple, lightweight and very convenient program designed for combining PDF-files in one container. It works perfectly, there are absolutely no settings, just install and use, the interface is English, but there shouldn’t be any difficulties, because there’s really nothing to understand. There are only three main steps: add files, select a location to save, combine, that’s all, well, if you wish, you can also set a password to open the file. The program supports the function " Drag-and-Drop" - simple dragging with the mouse, although for some reason this function did not want to work for me, but this is not a big problem.
Is it possible to edit PDF files for free on Ubuntu? Of course you can. The question is “How?” But it turns out there is nothing complicated about it. Let's go in. Below we find the download link. We select a file for your architecture or your system, but I hope that you are downloading for Ubuntu, then your choice is small, only 2 links - for 32-bit and 64-bit systems. Click on the link in the column Download, opposite your operating system. A new page will open and after a few seconds you will be asked to download the file.
Download the file. Open the Draw or Writer application from the LibreOffice package. Add our downloaded extension - SERVICE - MANAGE EXTENSIONS - ADD. And now we have a newcomer in extensions - PDF Import.
Restart the program and open the PDF file. That's all.
Also, to be more sure, I installed libreoffice-pdfimport from the Ubuntu Application Center or from Synaptic.
Option #2. You can also edit PDF files in Inkscape, but if the document is multi-page, you will only be able to open one page.
Author: LinuxAndUbuntu
Date of publication: November 6, 2016
Translation: A. Krivoshey
Transfer date: December 2017
For the past 15 years, PDF has been the de facto standard for document sharing, electronic distribution, and printing. It is a well-supported format, and Linux distributions have always supported reading it. The only problem is that there is Adobe Acrobat Pro for Windows and MacOS, but there is no version for Linux. However, there are several good PDF editors on Linux, so I decided to check them out.
For this article, I tested a variety of PDF editors for Linux, both open source and proprietary, using two PDF documents: one created by Wikipedia, as well as a large PDF from Adobe with many pages and images, to see how each program handled them. This way, readers can see what happens when each program edits a PDF.
Nowadays, most Linux distributions come with LibreOffice pre-installed, or it can be easily installed through the Software Control Center or app store. A couple of years ago or so, LibreOffice Draw finally got the ability to import and edit PDF files.
Imported a PDF file created on Wikipedia quite correctly. It was far from perfect, but easy to read. Unfortunately, it couldn’t beat a large PDF with a bunch of images. Draw froze every time and I couldn't open or edit this PDF at all.
The good news is that Draw is quite good at importing PDF files created by office suites such as Microsoft Office and LibreOffice. I've done this many times before. Thus, in many but the most complex cases, Draw works quite well.
An excellent vector graphics program, and it is used daily by graphic design professionals around the world. I highly recommend it for this kind of work, and best of all, it can import and edit PDFs! It might be a good PDF editor for Linux. Let's see!
Inkscape was able to import both test documents very well and accurately. My only gripe is that Inkscape is not a multi-page document editor like Word or LibreOffice Draw, so it only imports one page at a time. However, this didn't bother me as I had previously had to edit many PDF files page by page by simply joining all the pages together with a tool like pdftk.
The first proprietary application on this list is an almost perfect replacement for Adobe Acrobat Pro. It runs on Linux, Windows and Mac and has commercial support.
It flawlessly (as far as I could tell) imported any PDF I could find, including things like annotations and fonts, and I could edit whatever I wanted. This is a quality product and in my opinion, if you decide to buy it, you will get your money's worth.
The second proprietary application on our list is also paid. PDF Studio 11 is positioned as a complete replacement for Adobe Acrobat Pro. It is also a mature application with commercial support.
As far as I can tell, the Pro Version offers all the features that Adobe Acrobat Pro and Master PDF Editor have, and opened test documents just as flawlessly as Master PDF Editor did. It's also a quality product that you'll likely enjoy if you decide to buy it.
5. PDF Chain
This list would not be complete without mentioning the pdftk utility and the best Linux GUI for it - .
It's a simple but powerful app, but it's not a full-featured graphics editor like the other apps listed here - its purpose is a little different. PDF Chain can split a PDF into multiple documents or merge two into one. It can add backgrounds, stamps, or edit PDF file information, or upload form data to PDF, and much more.
Overall, a really great app if you don't need to edit text or images in your PDF file. I highly recommend him.
PC users often receive various types of information in digital format. One of the most common formats is .pdf. For example, most books are supplied in this format.
What if you need to make changes or make notes in the book, but you don’t have the necessary tool at hand. The application Master PDF Editor will help solve this issue.
The program can be downloaded from the official website:
Master PDF Editor application is a very convenient tool for editing .pdf files. Using it, you can easily add your own annotations to the document, make the necessary notes, add an image or text information. In addition, it is possible to combine pages, delete unnecessary ones, and this is only part of the entire functionality of this wonderful program.
The application is regularly updated, which means that the developers are developing their product. Its cross-platform nature turns the tool into a unified .pdf file editing processor.
It is worth noting that for non-commercial use you can work with the application on a Linux system absolutely free of charge, although on Windows they ask for a certain amount, offering only a 30-day trial.
Among the main features of the program's functionality, it is worth highlighting:
- every element on the file page can be changed to your taste
- export pages to popular graphic image formats
- editing and adding bookmarks
- working with digital signatures
- file encryption
- working with Java scripts
- the ability to edit files, as well as create new ones
- merging and splitting files
- organizing pages
- working with controls on the page - adding/editing
Installing the application will take place in two mouse clicks after you follow the link to the official website
The Portable Document Foramt (PDF) is one of the most commonly used formats for exchanging documents, especially on the Internet. PDF perfectly preserves the structure of the document, but its main disadvantage is its difficulty in editing, compared to doc and txt formats.
In this article I will tell you how to create and also edit pdf very easily in Linux. We will look at both the Linux console pdf editor, a lightweight utility that allows you to do the most basic actions, and a full-fledged graphical environment for creating new and editing existing files in Linux. Let's start with the graphics program.
Editing PDF in Master Pdf Editor
It is not necessary and even inconvenient to use the console for such a task. There is an excellent Linux pdf editor, this is Master Pdf Editor. It's not free, but it's free for non-commercial home use. Master Pdf Editor has a huge number of functions:
- Changing text and images of PDF documents;
- Creating and editing pdf and xps files;
- Adding and editing bookmarks;
- Encryption and protection of the Pdf file using 128-bit encryption;
- Convert XPS to PDF;
- Adding direction elements to pdf files;
- Import and export of pdf pages and various image formats with a large extension;
- Merging pdf files;
- Quick creation and filling of pdf forms;
- Adding a digital signature to documents;
- Changing font settings;
Editing pdf linux with this program is very easy. You won't find it in the official repositories, but you can download the installation file for your distribution from the official website. There are also versions of the program for Windows and MacOS. For example, on Ubuntu, download the deb package and install it using the app center.
Then the program shortcut will appear in the application menu. Now let's take a closer look at how to work with it.
Creating pdf documents in Linux
After the main program window opens, open in the menu File - Create to create a new pdf file:
A blank document will open. Although you can create PDF files very easily, this tool is more focused on editing them. You can create Pdf in Linux using LibreOffice, or another tool you are used to, and in Master Pdf Editor you can only edit PDF Linux.
Adding Text to Pdf in Linux
To add text you first need to open the file for editing, here we are using the file created in the previous example. After that, open the menu item Insert -> Text and add the desired text. For example, like this:
Font and editing options can be adjusted in the panel located on the right side of the window.
Just like text, you can add pictures; to do this, select from the menu Insert paragraph Image.
Adding buttons and checkboxes
You can also add radio buttons and checkboxes to PDF documents. There are special menu items for this. Insert. This Switch And Checkbox respectively. For example, this is what it will look like.
Besides this, there are many other actions to edit a pdf file in Linux, such as creating fields, lists, signatures, etc.
Editing Pdf in Master Pdf Editor
This is the main purpose of the program. Just open the desired document through the menu File -> Open.
Now, let's say you want to highlight part of the text with a different color, for example, the phrase "port number". Open menu Comments, select Highlight text:
And then use the cursor to select the desired piece of text.
As you can see, the text is marked, and there is a similar option for underlining the text.
To insert text, you need to use the Insert -> Text item again. As you can see, this is an easy to use and feature-rich pdf editing tool on Linux that is suitable for both beginners and experienced users. But if you don't want to use a proprietary program or just don't need that functionality, we'll look at another option, this time open source.
Editing pdf in PDFtk
Pdftk or PDF Toolkit is a free console utility that can be used to edit Linux pdfs. Well, editing is a big word, here you can only cut and paste files. The pdftk utility is available for Linux, Windows, MacOS, and FreeBSD. With it you can edit pdf linux for free without buying a commercial editor.
Use the following commands to install. On Ubuntu or Debian:
sudo apt-get install pdftk
On CentOS, Fedora, RedHalt:
sudo yum -y install gcc gcc-java
$ wget http://www.pdflabs.com/tools/pdftk-the-pdf-toolkit/pdftk-1.44-src.zip
$ unzip pdftk-1.44-src.zip
$ cd pdftk-1.44-dist/pdftk
$ make -f Makefile.Redhat
$ sudo make install
To install pdftk on other platforms, such as Windows or MacOS, you can download the port there.
Now that the utility is installed on the system, you can use the following commands:
Combining files:
pdftk input1.pdf input2.pdf input3.pdf cat output final.pdf
Retrieving pages, for example, only 4, 3, 5:
pdftk input.pdf cat 3-5 output final.pdf
Removing a page from a file:
For example, delete page 3 and create a new file without it.
pdftk input.pdf cat 1-2 4-end output final.pdf
Rotate all pages 180 degrees:
pdftk input.pdf cat 1-endsouth output final.pdf
Rotate all pages 90 degrees clockwise:
pdftk input.pdf cat 1-endeast output final.pdf
The same, only counterclockwise:
pdftk input.pdf cat 1-endwest output final.pdf
Changing the page order:
pdftk input.pdf cat end-1 output final.pdf
Selecting pages from several documents:
pdftk A=input1.pdf B=input2.pdf cat A3-5 B1-3 A10 output final.pdf
3, 4, 5 from input1.pdf, 1, 2, 3 from input2.pdf, and 10 from input1.pdf will be selected
Add a watermark to the file:
pdftk input.pdf background watermark.pdf output final.pdf
The watermark.pdf will be applied to each page.
But that's not all for Pdftk there is a graphical backend called pdf chain. You can install the program from the official repositories of your distribution. The same functions for working with pdf as in pdftk are supported.
