Re: [libreoffice-users] Newbie help needed please.

On 07/23/2018 10:20 AM, Cley Faye wrote:
> Le lun. 23 juil. 2018 à 04:23, Diamondblack <karlbmw325i@hotmail.com> a
> écrit :
>
> > I am a complete novice and I do not want to come on the forum and upset
> > anyone with such a simple task.
> >
> > I have Downloaded and installed LibreOffice 5.4.7.
> >
> > I have two PDF Files and all I need to do is change the text and I can not
> > ever work out how to do a simple edit.
> >
> > All I have to do is change 2017 to 2009 on the first PDF file and change
> > 1967 to 1959 on the other PDF file.
> ​Hi,
>
> For that kind of changes LibreOffice might not be your best option.
> You should look into InkScape (it's also free software: ​
> https://inkscape.org/en/ ). It can open PDF file with much more fidelity
> than LibreOffice and allow very simple text changes (just double-click on
> the text you want to edit).
>
> LibreOffice is more of an authoring tool, and as said by others PDF is
> *not* a format designed to be easily editable.
Great news.

I did not know that Inkscape would edit PDF files.

I just used it on Linux, instead of Corel Draw that is installed on 
Windows 10.

Will look into that myself.  I do hope this answer helps the original 
poster.


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