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Per E. Johannessen:
Does anyone know about a program (for eCS/OS2) that is capable of editing pdf-files
such as adding text/annotations ?

guzzi:
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/

Per E. Johannessen:
Had a look at it, but it won't do what I need.

ivan:
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.

Per E. Johannessen:
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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