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Dear KDE-team!

You have already implemented a lot of useful editing tools, but some like text editing functions are really missing.
Example: it's very convenient to fill in the forms and questionnaires in pdf-format on the PC. In windows I have used PDF-XChange Viewer and Nitro PDF Professional (the best and ideal pdf-editor in my opinion), however in Linux such things are missing. PDF Editor is working really bad and is not user-friendly. For linux there is a tool: PDF STUDIO, where there is a function: TYPEWRITER - it is very convenient to locate it in needed position on the document.
The availability of a good pdf-editor prevents many of my friends to move to Ubuntu, as switching between Windows and Linux only to edit a pdf document nerves and takes time.

While I agree that kde needs a good pdf editor you will have no luck to see this integrated in okular. Okular aims to be a document viewer, not a pdf editor.

trebor:
to see such pdf-editor as a separate application is also a good solution. anyway you are right - a good pdf-editor is needed, regardless of whether it is addition to Okular or a separate application.

This project (http://www.gnupdf.org) might be of help. Not a lot publicity. However, It would be nice to see a K/GNU Juggler!

@mogliii: Gnupdf is dead. http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/pdf-devel/

By the way, as Okular maintainer i can say you that we won't get to add pure editing functionality since it makes no sense.

TSDgeos: I think this idea is rather about improving "fill in the forms and questionnaires in pdf-format" functionality of Okular, than providing pure editing options (BTW editing as in moving pages around or editing as in changing shapes of embedded figures?). I admit, that is rather unfortunate wording.
And yes, this idea would be a lot better if example PDF file would be attached. If there are files with forms that Okular can't edit/fill in, then I vote for improving situation.

Then this is not a idea, we already support filling forms in pdf files, if something does not work, use bugs.kde.org and fill a bug.

TSDgeos wrote:@mogliii: Gnupdf is dead. http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/pdf-devel/

I guess you judge from the mailinglist activity. That's a pitty.

Edit: Not high-priority anymore
http://www.fsf.org/blogs/community/gnu-pdf-project-leaves-high-priority-projects-list-mission-complete

You can judge from repository commits if you want too http://bzr.savannah.gnu.org/lh/pdf/libgnupdf/