PdfEdit is pretty much the only FOSS low-level PDF-editing tool out there. It's pretty useful, and pretty recent since it's updated in 2012.
However, it's a shame that packages are nowhere to be found, and I cannot get it to compile from the source code on recent distro's.
Aparently, this software uses an ancient form of Qt called Qt3. In order to build Qt3 apps on Qt4 systems, there is this library called libqt4-qt3support and this tool called qt3to4 in the package libqt4-dev-bin. The idea is to convert the source code and compile the source with qt3-support.
I know nothing about Qt, but the basic idea is this, while in the root directory of the project.
Convert the Qt3 source to Qt4:
qt3to4 -alwaysOverwrite ./src/gui/*
Remove the Qt3 check from configure by commenting the check out:
nano ./configure
# isqmake3=`$testbin --version 2>&1 | grep '3\.[0-9][0-9]*\.[0-9][0-9]*'`
# if test -z "$isqmake3"
# then
# testbin=""
# fi
Configure:
./configure
Make:
make && sudo make install
But make quits with an error:
...
make[1]: Leaving directory `/tmp/pdfedit/src'
make: *** [source] Error 2
So, does anyone have the knowledge to make this work? It would be awesome. We can then apply this to other packages as well. And we can finally answer this question. :)
