PDF Authoring tool, suggestions?

[Michael Powell]

Ltcddata wrote:

> On Fri, 17 Apr 2009 14:22:08 +0100
> Anton Shterenlikht <mexas at bristol.ac.uk> wrote:
> 
>> On Fri, Apr 17, 2009 at 07:26:39AM +0200, Roland Smith wrote:
>> > On Thu, Apr 16, 2009 at 08:50:44PM -0600, Modulok wrote:
>> > > I'm looking for recommendations for a BSD-friendly, PDF authoring
>> > > tool (Not a viewer, see below.)
>> > > 
>> > > I have an image of a signature that I need to put into a PDF
>> > > document. I converted the original, un-signed PDF document to a
>> > > raster PNG, then used GIMP to place a photograph of the signature
>> > > where I need it. I then converted the PNG back to a PDF using
>> > > ImageMagick's 'convert' utility. The problem, is the PDF is now
>> > > HUGE. Both in dimensions as well as file size. It went from 28kb
>> > > to 292Kb. There must be a better way to do this.
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> 
> Don't know if I am missing the point here but why not use open office
> to create your pdf file with its export as PDF feature?

Unless something has changed very recently OpenOffice.org doesn't import 
.pdf's that already exist, which the OP indicates he needs in order to edit 
a pre-existing file.

Inkscape, after a certain version number, has recently begun to be able to 
import .pdf. I used it only once to do something like what the OP described 
but have not used it extensively.

-Mike