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Per E. Johannessen

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Edit pdf files
« on: October 11, 2014, 08:30:49 pm »
Does anyone know about a program (for eCS/OS2) that is capable of editing pdf-files
such as adding text/annotations ?

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Re: Edit pdf files
« Reply #1 on: October 12, 2014, 01:19:07 am »
There is pdfbox, for Java, but that will not do exactly what you want. Still might be worth to take a look at.
https://pdfbox.apache.org/

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Re: Edit pdf files
« Reply #2 on: October 13, 2014, 02:07:05 pm »
Had a look at it, but it won't do what I need.

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Re: Edit pdf files
« Reply #3 on: October 13, 2014, 04:17:44 pm »
As far as I know there are very few programs that will let you annotate PDF files on any computer system.  Most of them require Adobe programs to do so.

There are also web based ways of doing this but we have never tried them. 

When we have need to modify a PDF we normally revert it back to text and pictures, work on those and then recompile it back to a PDF which I don't think is what you are trying to do.  The other thing is, what type of PDF are you trying to annotate - flowed text or fixed image pages?  If the latter, it is possible to convert the PDF to single page images with something like PDFsam (a java program), annotate the images in something like Embellish and then reassemble the individual images back into a PDF.

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Re: Edit pdf files
« Reply #4 on: October 13, 2014, 06:23:28 pm »
I simply need to add some text/numbers to invoices which I receive in pdf-format. Converting them to other formats for editing will take too long time, also it seems that some formatting is lost in the process. GSView/ghostscript works fine for lots of things, but not for adding text. Perhaps there is a way to make it work but I wouldn't even know where to start.
Looks like I have to continue using Adobe/Win for this task.

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Re: Edit pdf files
« Reply #5 on: October 13, 2014, 07:22:35 pm »
Hi.

I only know Acrobat Pro (Windows) to be able to highlight, include notes and add text boxes on a PDF.

But it will be interesting to find if there is open source software that can do the same thing and check the effort of migrating it to the eCS-Platform.

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Re: Edit pdf files
« Reply #6 on: October 13, 2014, 07:36:13 pm »
Hi,

the pdf suite Foxit opens for editing, and it is quite good according to a friend of mine.  As far as I know, it only runs on Win platforms.  More info at: http://www.foxitsoftware.com/PDF_Editor/

30 days free trial.  After that, costs of US $ 89.  Buying a block order could get costs down and a ported version could be added to the eCS license costs if not too much (I have no idea where the pain limit for private users is, but I expect no more than US $ 20, and that could be difficult to make the Foxit people accept given their own pricing strategy).

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Re: Edit pdf files
« Reply #7 on: October 13, 2014, 08:09:31 pm »
There are several programs that can do what I look for, but they're all written for other OS's, mostly Windows.
Best would be to have a native program, of course, but a java program that runs well with OS2 would be better than booting Win to get the job done.

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Re: Edit pdf files
« Reply #8 on: October 14, 2014, 10:12:08 am »
QPDFView is able to add annotations and bookmarks and some more IIRC

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Re: Edit pdf files
« Reply #9 on: October 14, 2014, 12:32:33 pm »
Foxit Reader is free and can annotate text and draw and highlight and .... too. Unfortunately only Win. Same with PDFXEdit.
 
Never tried QPDFview for annotation anything. Not even find a way do to that. For viewing pdf it's okay. Although for some documents rather slow compared to Win/Foxit (takes ages to zoom in/out compared to Foxit/Win).

Lucide and guess QPDFView can fill in predefined fields. But that's not what Per E. needs unfortunately.

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Re: Edit pdf files
« Reply #10 on: October 14, 2014, 01:33:46 pm »
Per,

If you are already doing what you want using windows, rather than having to leave OS/2 eCS why not do what we do.  When we check the service manuals we produce we need to see how they will look in various windows based programs.  To do this we use a very cut down version of win XP running in VirtualBox on OS/2 (since XP has reached its EoL we are working on making a cut down win 7 to replace it).

I don't know if this is any help but it does mean you can keep on working on your eCS machine.

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Re: Edit pdf files
« Reply #11 on: October 14, 2014, 01:54:50 pm »
For the time being I am using VirtualPC/XP, (sometimes I boot to another win-installation) so I will continue doing it this way until there, hopefully, is a better way.

Just had a look at "Master PDF Editor", available for the usual platforms, but I read somewhere that it's written in QT and since we have QT for OS2, could this be a possibility?

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Re: Edit pdf files
« Reply #12 on: October 14, 2014, 03:55:50 pm »
Google Docs provides a pretty nice way to edit documents. Their native format appears to be PDF. Thanks to having a decent Firefox port, this works pretty well on eComStation.

Google Docs is oriented toward the cloud, but can operate on documents stored locally on the hard drive. If documents are stored on the cloud, then this is a reasonable way to share the document between your eCS machine and your phone/tablet. At least with iPad, Google docs can also open docs on the eCS SAMBA shares, if you have SAMBA server running.
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Re: Edit pdf files
« Reply #13 on: October 14, 2014, 04:47:30 pm »
Foxit Reader is free and can annotate text and draw and highlight and .... too. Unfortunately only Win. Same with PDFXEdit.
 
Never tried QPDFview for annotation anything. Not even find a way do to that. For viewing pdf it's okay. Although for some documents rather slow compared to Win/Foxit (takes ages to zoom in/out compared to Foxit/Win).

Lucide and guess QPDFView can fill in predefined fields. But that's not what Per E. needs unfortunately.

Andi,
then you have to look closer. Annotations and bookmarks work like a charm.

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Re: Edit pdf files
« Reply #14 on: October 14, 2014, 07:51:26 pm »
Silvan, just a quick note. There is a little mistake on QPDFView install.os2.

It says:
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poppler
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  1. yum poppler poppler-qt

I think it is: yum install poppler-qt

My issue is that I don't use CUPS and it is mandatory for it to run. CUPS  gives me trouble installing it. I  need to read more about it. It says it need to be installed on the root but I don't want to do that.

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