About PdfEdit(library and free pdf editor for unix)
PDFedit is a free open source pdf editor and a library for manipulating PDF documents, released under terms of GNU GPL version 2. It includes PDF manipulating library based on xpdf, GUI, set of command line tools and a pdf editor.
Library
Multiplatform library working on Unix systems, Windows32/64 and also Windows CE and others. You can use it to read, change and extract information from a PDF file. It is based on xpdf library.
GUI
PdfEdit includes pdf editor which graphical interface is based on QT3.x with all features implemented using scripting language; therefore, any user can modify the behaviour by scripts and plugins. See separete section for qt4 based windows pdf editor.
Download
All files are hosted at sourceforge.net. Go to the sourceforge download page to download PDFedit.
In case sourceforge is offline or not functioning, you can use local backup download page to download latest source package
Distros
| Gentoo Linux | PDFedit is available via Sunrise Overlay. |
| Debian Linux | There are Debian Linux packages available. |
| NetBSD | PDFedit packages are in NetBSD package collection |
| openSUSE | There are openSUSE pdfedit packages |
Sources
Screenshots of old qt3 based GUI
