[ale] is there an open source program permitting creating/editing of PDF files ?

[lists at serioustechnology.com (Geoffrey)]

James Sumners wrote:
> Or install the CUPS PDF printer and create PDFs from any application
> that can print.
> 
> PDFs aren't really meant to be edited once they are created. There is
> a plugin for OpenOffice Draw that makes it possible, but I doubt it
> works very well. A PDF is meant to be a digital representation of a
> printed document. Can you make unnoticeable edits to printed paper?

I would doubt that is correct.  After all, there is acrobat.  Not the 
reader, but the pdf editing application sold by the originator of the 
pdf format.

> 
> On Wed, Jun 3, 2009 at 9:53 AM, Robert L. Harris
> <robert.l.harris at gmail.com> wrote:
>>   I use OpenOffice.org.   I can modify/store as ODT files and when I am
>> ready to send
>> it to a client I can export it as PDF.  I haven't had much luck
>> importing and editing
>> existing PDF's yet, but haven't really had the need to either.
>>
>> Robert
> 
> 
> 


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