On Tue, Oct 20, 2009 at 5:14 PM, Rob Townley <rob.townley at gmail.com> wrote: > > Acrobat isn't easy to use either. i find it kinda clunky and not > intuitive. Maybe it is the nature of vector graphics and text. > > InkScape for graphics imports / exports pdf. > The SVG can be edited in theory in a text editor because it is XML. > > ps2pdf <--> pdf2ps > > xhtml2ps | ps2pdf I have had problems with ps2pdf - a lot of the time it just plain fails, especially if the output is fancy-formatted (like dual columns). OpenOffice can export its documents as pdfs, which can provide a lot of the functionality, but as for editing an existing PDF, I don't know of a cheap, simple solution. Acrobat is probably the best, and it's expensive (by my budget framework). mhr