For quite a while now OpenOffice has been promising the ability to import and edit PDF files. Although not released with the program itself, you can grab the Sun PDF Import extension to do just that.
This extension is in beta and is available multi-platform for Windows, Linux and MacOS X systems.
Tests that I ran were pretty good. The text in the PDF file is imported well and in a way I could edit the text, font settings and images.
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OpenOffice.org has just released OpenOffice version 2.4.0. At this moment, mysteriously there is no information coming from the main website, but you can download it through Filehippo. Sorry, no change log yet, no information as to what is new, and on my Linux distro OpenOffice still is showing as the most recent version so Iām assuming version 2.4 is Windows only.
[Update (03/27): here is the press release, the new features list, and the direct download page, it works on Linux!
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