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What's the best pdf editor for Mageia 2? I saw in the web this program pdfeditor, but i did't find it for Mageia. Can i install pdfeditor in Mageia?

Best pdf editor to do what exactly?
And if you saw some program, please give a link to that. Do you mean http://www.pdf-editor.com/index.html ?
That is a windows program, and could only be run under wine ...

I saw this program pdfedit-0.4.5-6.fc18.i686.rpm - A complete pdf document editing solution, but this is for Fedora. Is there a version for Mageia?

Not packaged yet, but you could try to compile it yourself: http://sourceforge.net/projects/pdfedit/

The command line application pdftk (PDF ToolKit) is available for Mageia.

Depending on what you want to do it may satisfy your needs.
Tutorials on using pdftk are available at http://www.pdflabs.com/tools/pdftk-the-pdf-toolkit/

A quick search for pdf in the Software Manager and scanning the list I see kpdftool, pdfshuffler as well as pdftk. There are probably others. Also, libreoffice can import and save pdf files. Only you can tell which, if any, is suitable for whatever task you have planned.

Jim

You certainly can install pdfeditor in mageia -- if you are willing to compile from source. Otherwise, inkscape can edit pdfs quite nicely

You can try xournal, scribus, evince or Okular

@RoyD: those are perfectly fine pdf viewers, however, OP asked for a pdf editor.

I use xournal to edit PDFs or maybe I should say I can add to the pdf.
Actually I tried inkscape and on my system it does not edit PDFs but it only adds to PDFs.

The trick is, you need to install pdf2svg first. After that, you can open pdfs (inkscape converts them to svgs, and makes font substitutions according to what you have installed), and either select an object and "ungroup" it, or you can use the node selection tool (looks like a skinny triangle pointing at a circle inside a curve), to select individual objects for editing. The user interface definitely comes with a learning curve.

Yes it does work with the Tricks not perfectly thats ok, I am going to carry this conversation under ideas and suggestions. Cheers Roy

I installed pdfedit some years ago and I still have it

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tom@localhost ~]$ rpm -qa | grep pdfed
pdfedit-0.4.4.1-1mdv2010.1


however it is not so simple to use... also if probably the current version is improved a lot.
It has never been available in MGA,
but some valid alternatives are available as you can see in the other answers to your question