Need a Freeware PDF Editor

T

thunder7

I have been searching for the last 4 days for a Freeware PDF Editor.
I have been finding the free to download crap apperently they do not
know what FREEWARE is.
If anyone has any ideas please post I need on ASAP
Thank you
 
J

jmatt

Here is my info.

http://www.adobe.com/products/acrobat/readstep.html
http://www.adobe.com/products/acrobat/readstep2.html

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PDF reDirect
http://www.all4you.dk/FreewareWorld/links.php?id=29634
http://www.exp-systems.com/
Create PDF files for free from any application.

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PDFill PDF Tools
http://www.pdfill.com/pdf_tools_free.html
PDFill PDF Tools are FREE PDF Toolbox to Merge, Split, Reorder,
Encrypt, Decrypt, Rotate, Crop, Reformat, Header, Footer, Watermark,
Images to PDF, PDF to Images, Form Fields Delete/Flatten/List, and
PostScript to PDF.

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MakePDF
http://www.lexacorp.com.pg/makepdf.html
Do you send emails with attached Word or Excel files which:
1. can carry viruses,
2. may not display the same on someone elses computer (if they can
open the file at all!),
3. can be modified by the recipient without your knowledge,
4. are much larger than needed just to get your message through?
You should be using Portable Document Files (PDF) which can be read on
any platform with the free Adobe Acrobat Reader .
The only problem is that Adobe want big bucks for the tools to create
the files. Fortunately there is a free alternative - if you configure a
Windows Postscript printer driver to create a Postscript file, you can
print anything to the file and then use AFPL Ghostscript to convert the
Postscript file to PDF. The only problem with this is that is
Ghostscript uses a command line interface and lots of complicated
parameters so it is not at all easy to use. So I created a simple but
powerful Front End......

MailPDF / FTP-PDF
http://www.lexacorp.com.pg/makepdf.html
You can further automate your PDF handling by using one of MakePDF's
two companion programs MailPDF or FTP-PDF
.. With MailPDF, you can create and send PDF files through your MAPI
complaint email program with no user intervention.
MailPDF lets you specify addresses, subject heading, body text and the
file to convert and attach to the message from the command line.
.. With FTP-PDF you can specify details of your website or other FTP
location and your PDF will be created and uploaded in one step.

SearchPDF
http://www.lexacorp.com.pg/makepdf.html
SearchPDF will scan a selected directory branch for PDF files and
search each PDF for a given text string. it display all matching and
non matching PDF files found in two list boxes. You can then open any
selected matching PDF file from within the program. Like MakePDF, it
uses AFPL Ghostscript to do all the hard work. In order to use the
program, you must have Ghostscript installed. This program also uses
the PSTOTXT package, written by Paul McJones and Andrew Birrell of
Digital Equipment Corporation's Systems Research Center (see the file
pstotext.txt which is included in the downlaod zip file for licencing
details).

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Scan2PDF
http://www.koma-code.de/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=39&Itemid=82
Scan easily into a pdf-file.
Scan2PDF supports:
- Load images from your harddisk
- Scan images with and without interface
- Change the order of the images
- Delete images from the list
- Rotate images

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PDFCreator
http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=57796&package_id=53473
PDFCreator, an open source program from SourceForge that works by
setting up a pseudo printer in your system. To create a PDF you just
select the PDF "printer" and write to it. This means you can create
PDFs from Word, Excel or indeed any program that allows you to print.

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Foxit PDF Reader
http://foxitsoftware.com/
http://www.all4you.dk/FreewareWorld/links.php?page=37&cat=008
A free reader/viewer/printer for PDF documents. Unlike Adobe® Reader,
this one has size less than 1M, needs no installation and opens up
immediately.

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AcroPAD
http://www.acropad.com/index.htm
Dreamscape AcroPAD is a simple Notepad-like program with PDF conversion
capability and a useful button toolbar (like WordPad or Microsoft
WinWord).

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How to Print PDF Files
http://www.census.gov/main/www/pdf.html
When printing Adobe Acrobat PDF files from within your web browser, do
NOT use the web browser
print facility. Instead, use the print button at the left end of the
special Adobe Acrobat tool
bar, which appears immediately above the viewing window. See
illustration below for location of
this print button

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More tools here
http://www.pdfzone.com/products/software/index.html

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Easy PDF
http://www.mywebattack.com/gnomeapp.php?id=105382
Easy PDF ( freeware ) allows you to create PDF documents, using a
Word-style interface. You can
apply all standard word processing options like text formatting,
tables, images (BMP format) and more and then convert it to PDF format
in a single click. This version is free and allows for basic
formatting. Additional features and import options are available in
commercial versions.

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pdfEdit995
http://www.pdf995.com/
http://download.com.com/3000-2064-10142785.html
pdfEdit995 is a companion utility for pdf995 (also free) which enables
greater flexibility in PDF output. It allows you to easily combine two
or more files into one; set preferences for page orientation, page size
and naming conventions; create professional quality PDF stationery; add
'Confidential' stamps and embed fonts.
http://download.com.com/3000-2092-9335465.html
Signature995 allows you to securely transmit and digitally sign PDF
documents, Microsoft Office documents and zip archives quickly,
affordably, and easily. Signature995 uses Microsoft Cryptographic
technologies to give you 128-bit DES encryption, offering a high level
of protection for all your Internet communications, including legal
documents and
financial transactions. Signature995 employs Microsoft digital
certificate technologies to create and validate digital signatures. It
is both powerful and easy to use. Signature995 supports PDF documents
(*.pdf), Microsoft Office documents (*.doc, *.xls, *.ppt) and Zip
archives (*.zip). Unlike other PDF solutions, Signature995 is free to
both the sender and the recipient.

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ftp://mirror.cs.wisc.edu/pub/mirrors/ghost/ghostgum/gsv44w32.exe
Windows 95, 98, ME, NT, 2000 or XP
It is recommended that you also install GSview, a graphical interface
to Ghostscript.
gsv44w32.exe, GSview 4.4 for Win32 1570816 bytes
Howto
http://pad.olsonnetwork.com/faqs/MakePDF_HOWTO_Images.html

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PDF Reader
http://www.cadkas.com/downengpdf5.php
PDF Reader 1.0 (~1200 Kb) Freeware
PDF Reader is a free program to view, modify and print pdf files. It is
very small, only about 1 MByte to download and will fit on one disk.
You can open, view, zoom and print PDF files. You can also modify pdf
files (but you can not save them in the free version). You can add,
change and delete text and pictures and print it out.

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Brava Reader
http://www.bravaviewer.com/reader.htm
Brava!® Reader is a free application that opens, views, and prints
TIFF and PDF files and CSF (content sealed format) files created by
the Net-It® publishing products. CSF is a compressed format that
encompasses our Visual Rights™ persistent security, that includes
password protection, onscreen banners, print and other feature
restrictions, and more.
Brava Reader is simple to use and runs as a desktop program or as an
ActiveX component in a web page.
Key features:
* Easy to use
* Supports TIFF, PDF and CSF
* Documents to oversized CAD drawings
* Find Search/Find (CSF)
* Hyperlinks (CSF)
* CAD layering, attributes, measure, print to scale (CSF)

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Elfima Notepad
http://www.elfima.com/enotepad.php
Elfima Notepad is a free text editor to create PDF, HTML, XML, and SVG
documents. With Elfima Notepad you can also reimport and modify your
PDF documents.
With a PDF file size optimisation, Elfima Notepad is the most efficient
solution to create quickly and easily PDF documents.
Elfima notepad doesn't have pre-requisites (as Adobe Acrobat) or
particular configuration.
Sample Elfima Notepad Files
# Newsletter (PDF) (15 kB)
# Simple Text (PDF) (1 kB)
# Memorandum (PDF) (19 kB)
# Memorandum (SVG) (3 kB)
# Pub (PDF) (2 kB)
# Pub (Animated SVG) (3 kB)
# Bookmarks (PDF) (6 kB)
Elfima Notepad is free
 
R

ReBorn Dude

Try http://www.cutepdf.com/

BR
Rene

thunder7 said:
I have been searching for the last 4 days for a Freeware PDF Editor.
I have been finding the free to download crap apperently they do not
know what FREEWARE is.
If anyone has any ideas please post I need on ASAP
Thank you
 
R

Rolf Barbakken

thunder7 said:
I have been searching for the last 4 days for a Freeware PDF Editor.
I have been finding the free to download crap apperently they do not
know what FREEWARE is.
If anyone has any ideas please post I need on ASAP
Thank you

Do you want to be able to open PDF-files and edit directly, or do you just
need to create PDF-files from, say, Word?
 
T

thunder7

Thank you all for the links, I have collected a lot of info but still
have yet to find a "FREEWARE PDF Editor" I ask that you please continue
to search for me, If I find anything I will also post it.
Again it has to be FREEWARE,....
And not free to try, not free to download, not free trial,...But
freeware!!!.
Thank you
 
M

MadJo

OpenOffice can export to PDF, also Elfina (one of the list of links) is
freeware.. as far as I can see..

But I'm not sure if it is possible to get a freeware tool that can open
and edit PDF files. (Not even sure if Adobe can do that, haven't used
the program)
 
P

PDFrank

thunder7 said:
Thank you all for the links, I have collected a lot of info but still
have yet to find a "FREEWARE PDF Editor" I ask that you please continue
to search for me, If I find anything I will also post it.
Again it has to be FREEWARE,....
And not free to try, not free to download, not free trial,...But
freeware!!!.
Thank you


The PDF file format is very complex and easily corrupted. People who
understand how to write a program that can edit a PDF expect to make a
comfortable living. So I don't expect ever to see a free, easy-to-use
PDF editor, unless some saintly programmer experiences an epiphany.

The closest thing I've ever seen to a free, WYSIWYG PDF Editor was
CAD-KAS PDF Reader 2.2, and I believe it was more by accident than by
design. With that program, one could modify a PDF, then "print" to a
postscript driver and create a new PDF. Best of all, the program had no
respect for security settings -- if you could open it, you could edit
it. But versions higher than 2.2, I understand, brand the file with a
watermark, and version 2.2 itself was bug-ridden in many ways.

Aside from that, the only truly free PDF editor I know of is PDFTK, but
it is a command-line program. Its author wrote a book under the title
PDF HACKS which, among other things, teaches the reader how to get the
most out of the program. There are at least two graphical interfaces
available to assist the command-line-challenged.

But even with PDFTK, only minor textual edits are practical.
 
B

Box134

You're not finding any because PDFs aren't meant to be truly editable. For
that you need the document from whence the PDF was created. You can "edit" a
PDF by adding comments, and marking it up in many ways, but you can't do
much to change the document. I have an ancient copy of Acrobat 5 and you can
edit a small amount of text, more like touch-up, and that's it.
 

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