Question

Are there any OpenSource projects which will run in Linux for editing a PDF document, and specifically editing the Acrobat JavaScript within the PDF document?

Answer 1

I couldn’t find a solution that exactly met your requirements. Hopefully, the following will provide some help.

1. PDFedit – http://pdfedit.cz/en/index.html

   PDFedit is a free open source pdf editor and a library for
   manipulating PDF documents, released under terms of GNU GPL version 2.
   It includes PDF manipulating library based on xpdf, GUI, set of
   command line tools and a pdf editor.

   PS The PDFedit documentation mentions scripting support but does not explicit mention Acrobat scripts.

2. Multi-platform PDF Editors – http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_PDF_software#Editors

3. Unix and Linux PDF Editors – http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_PDF_software#Editors_2

4. The Acrobat JavaScript Console (Windows) – http://acrobatusers.com/tutorials/javascript_console

   The Acrobat JavaScript Console window (a.k.a. the Console window) is
   one of the tools included in the Acrobat JavaScript Debugger. The
   Console window is by far the most useful tool in Adobe Acrobat for
   testing and debugging JavaScript code, but it is more than just a
   utility for testing code. It can also execute code snippets for
   automating tasks in Acrobat and analyzing documents. In this article,
   we’ll cover setting up and using this essential tool.