basic PDF editor for Ubuntu - tips?

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On Wed, 02 Mar 2011 21:23:20 +1100
"David" <agora at justemail.net> wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> could someone please tell me what they recommend as a basic PDF editor
> with GUI for Ubuntu?
> 
> Basically I would like to A) be able to edit the meta information in
> an existing PDF (saving a webpage to PDF via "print" in Ubuntu 8.04
> does a great job, but the title of the webpage isn't carried over
> into the PDF's tag info - it's all blank), and B) to be able to
> delete a page from the PDF.
> 
> I've looked in Synaptic and seen PDF Editor there, but there are very
> mixed opinions about it in forums I looked at. E.g.:
> 
> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> http://www.wikihow.com/Edit-PDF-Files-in-Linux-Using-PDFEdit
> 
> "This is still labelled "Alpha" software by the author, it shows, so
> don't get your hopes up that it will work for you to any extent other
> than a few functions. Most annoying is it randomly saves the page
> you've last edited as completely blank."
> 
> [He mentions these too:]
> scribus
> flpsed
> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> 
> Another user wrote:
> 
> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> "pdfedit crashes my system, when i do get to save any work, it puts
> all pages over each other in one page -> garbage.
> 
> scribus does not want to load my pdf -> not useful.
> 
> flpsed looks like a program from the 90s that doesn’t do much more
> than display the pdf."
> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> 
> Thanks for any tips from your experience!
> 
> Dave
> 

I read recently that the latest OO can edit a pdf and on testing it was
possible to edit the body text of a simple pdf. You'd have to try it to
see if it meets your needs.