Open office

hargi · 13 Jul 2011 at 08:58

Been doing a bit of a google about and getting conflicting answers.

Does Open office allow you to edit pdf's?
Just before we go buy acrobat pro

TIA

Mr_Orange · 13 Jul 2011 at 12:09

I'm using Libra Office (basically a more up to date version of open office) on my XP machine at work and you can do some basic PDF editing in Draw.

Why not download it and try it out?

knowlton · 13 Jul 2011 at 13:19

Mr_Orange said:
I'm using Libra Office (basically a more up to date version of open office) on my XP machine at work and you can do some basic PDF editing in Draw.

Why not download it and try it out?

Good call - but I thought Libra Office was a completely different package to Open Office?

CaptainCrash · 13 Jul 2011 at 13:37

knowlton said:
Good call - but I thought Libra Office was a completely different package to Open Office?

It's basically the same thing, but Oracle are not much liked by the open source community, to put it mildly, hence the appearance of LibreOffice.

I don't think I'd want to use it for anything more than very simple PDF editing, depends what your requirements are I suppose.

FirebarUK · 13 Jul 2011 at 14:48

Doesn't The GIMP also allow editing of PDF's?

knowlton · 13 Jul 2011 at 15:59

FirebarUK said:
Doesn't The GIMP also allow editing of PDF's?

Indeed it does - although it saves as a GIMP file, therefore you have to print it, like you do in Windows / Office

PermaBanned · 13 Jul 2011 at 16:41

I remember using a program called PDFedit or something similar a while back, worked well for me but i guess it depends on what your requirements are.

dave-lew99 · 13 Jul 2011 at 16:47

By all means give OO/LO a go (since it's free, it'll only take you an hour at most), but i think you'll end up still getting Acrobat Pro.

Best option i find is to keep the PDF source material, edit that and re-produce the PDFs at the end.

inSilica · 13 Jul 2011 at 23:41

Inkscape will let you do it