Hi. On Fri, Aug 03, 2018 at 11:29:07PM +0200, Rodolfo Medina wrote: > Hi all. > > I've been tried masterpdfeditor, in the .deb version from official site, and > it > seems to be quite powerful. Differently from xournal, it allows you to > re-edit > previous changes to the document, whereas xournal seems not to be able to do > that.
xournal does not add text to PDFs per se. What it does is adding PDF annotations. Probably. First versions of xournal cheated and stored said annotation in a xml alongside with PDF. > The problem is, that it is proprietary software that asks for money > otherwise more and more `watermarks' are added to the document any time you > edit it again. That's to be expected. Nearly all proprietary software is written with a purpose to make end-user's life as miserable as possible. Unless said user pays, then it's twice as miserable. Masterpdfeditor is not different in this regard. > Anyone out there has experimented the matter and found a good > solution to the problem of adding some bit of text to pdf documents? In > particular, I want to add fingering notation to piano sheet music papers. The answer is - it depends on what you really need. If you need to add a PDF annotation without touching PDF itself - anything that's based on poppler library should satisfy your needs (evince/okular/etc). If you need to add a real text to a PDF and have a time to spend - you'll need inkscape or Gimp or that PDF editing plug-in for Libreoffice. If PDF batch processing is your cup of tea - it's called PDF::API2 in perl. Ghostscript may be suitable too. Reco
