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

Hi.

On 24/07/18 07:24, Tim-L wrote:
> 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.
I use Draw to edit simpler PDFs and it works very well as in this 
posters case, even a PDF with 20000 items, Inkscape I use for more 
complex PDFs or where the edits are more substantial.
Steve


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