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kelvinjps@beehaw.org to Free and Open Source Software@beehaw.org · 2 years ago

good pdf editor?

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good pdf editor?

kelvinjps@beehaw.org to Free and Open Source Software@beehaw.org · 2 years ago
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  • Andy@programming.dev
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    2 years ago

    I don’t think I saw Xournal++ (AKA Xournalpp) mentioned yet, which has helped me once or twice.

  • Hellfire103@sopuli.xyz
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    2 years ago

    Okular. Okular all the way.

  • jaum22@lemmy.eco.br
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    I use master pdf editor 4. O know it is not foss, but it was the best option for linux IMO.

    • kglitch@kglitch.social
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      Wow, that is pretty nice. Thanks!

  • WaterBottleOnAShelf@lemmy.nz
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    2 years ago

    And a very good pdf editor to you sir! tips hat

  • Redscroll@lemmy.ml
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    2 years ago

    Okular or Scribe

    • lostalejandro@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      2 years ago

      Scribus ftw!!

  • biddy@feddit.nl
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    2 years ago

    That sounds like an excellent idea. I look forward to it very much.

  • guillermohs9@lemmy.ml
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    I don’t know what type of editing you need to do, and I haven’t used it myself, but if I’m not wrong, LibreOffice Draw can edit PDFs.

    • Damage@feddit.it
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      So far Draw has been the best I’ve used for this purpose

    • UltraCoInc@feddit.nl
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      Yeah, I use LibreOffice Draw to change out text on PDFs a couple times a month at work. I’ll occasionally get some weird formatting issues or random black lines across the PDF, but usually works well enough, especially if I’m going to be printing the document out.

    • sculd@beehaw.org
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      wowah! First time I heard about this! Thank you!! LibreOffice for the win!

  • bbbhltz@beehaw.org
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    If it isn’t an entire book.l, Inkscape does do PDF editing. LibreOffice Draw does as well.

  • Rentlar@beehaw.org
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    For quick and dirty edits leading to rasterization of the PDF (i.e no more text fields), use can use GIMP.

  • MJBrune@beehaw.org
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    For something like signing a pdf it was extremely painful to do natively in Linux or with any Foss tools. As of recently Firefox let’s you edit, annotate, and sign PDFs. It’s honestly one of the biggest steps towards year of the Linux desktop that I’ve seen in the last 5 years. Linux still has a ways to go but it’s getting there slowly.

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      Didn’t know this was even possible.

  • heartlessevil@lemmy.one
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    https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/PDF,_PS_and_DjVu#Graphical_PDF_editing

    None of them are very good tbh

    • crow@beehaw.org
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      Why is that? It’s not like PDF’s are new. If it’s licensing are there non-legal PDF editors that work well?

      • lemmyvore@feddit.nl
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        Wasn’t PDF supposed to be a read-only, print-only medium? You’re supposed to edit the source material (like a doc) and export that to PDF, not edit PDF directly.

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