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Open Source PDF Editor

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Topic: Open Source PDF Editor
Posted By: chicks
Subject: Open Source PDF Editor
Date Posted: 04 Jun 07 at 12:15PM
PoDoFoBrowser is a complete PDF browser and editor, which lets you look deep inside a PDF document, and even edit it visually.

http://podofo.sourceforge.net/ - PoDoFo

http://rants.scribus.net/2006/12/10/pdf-surgery/ - Scribus Article on PoDoFoBrowser

Besides the download binaries, you'll need freetype6.dll to get it running.

I've started playing with the underlying PoDoFo C++ library - got the current svn branch to compile successfully using MSYS/MinGW and CMake. It's still very much Alpha quality, and fairly low-level, but has a lot of potential. It's LGPL licensed.



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Posted By: jjohnston
Date Posted: 26 Jun 07 at 12:29AM
Nice... thanks for the info Chicks!  :)


Posted By: Shotgun Tom
Date Posted: 16 Mar 10 at 3:14AM
First of all your link is dead. 
 
Also these tools are not open source or free and are hardly the best. 
 
Tom


Posted By: Rowan
Date Posted: 16 Mar 10 at 6:58AM
Yes, it looks like that open source project has died. I found a link on Softpedia to download PoDoFoBrowser 0.5.

http://www.softpedia.com/get/Office-tools/PDF/PoDoFoBrowser.shtml - http://www.softpedia.com/get/Office-tools/PDF/PoDoFoBrowser.shtml

We've recently built something similar (which hasn't been publicly released). It doesn't let you edit objects, but we'll probably add that functionality at some stage. If there's enough interest in something that lets you browse through Document Tree of a PDF, then we could possibly make it publicly available for download.


Posted By: Wheeley
Date Posted: 18 Mar 10 at 6:40AM
It hasn't died. They are still in active development. Even though they haven't done an official release for a while, the source is constantly updated. Here is an active link:

http://sourceforge.net/projects/podofo/

Wheeley



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