PDFs are kind of nice. but ideally we, as a society, took a wrong turn somewhere when we opted for complex proprietary bloated filetypes that nobody can understand or use.
this post was submitted on 31 Mar 2024
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I use various apps for editing PDFs.
- Firefox for quick and small edits
- Xournal++ for typing and drawing over the document to make a new document
- LibreOffice Draw, also for the above
You can now edit PDFs on Firefox
Or a handful of other, open source applications
Only thing more pirated than Windows products are Adobe products. Smallest violin, etc etc
Just switched to Linux and this is one thing I haven’t found a good solution for yet.
My only real use case is the “fill and sign” features in Adobe Reader. That allows filling with text boxes wherever I want and importing my actual handwritten signature which looks indistinguishable from print > sign > scanned.
Check this: https://github.com/Stirling-Tools/Stirling-PDF
Since you are on Linux just Start it in a Docker container locally and you are golden :)
I do love me some docker. I’ll check it out. Thanks.
It's garbage at CJK. Half the time your input characters disappear after saving and exiting
I have never experienced using CJK but you should raise the issue
Fuck PDF's, all my homies hate PDF's
They're not inheritly bad. The idea is no matter what you open the PDF with, it will always look the same.
That doesn't explain why they're so annoying to edit, though
Because they weren't designed to be edited, but somehow here we are
PDFxchange is good
Use ILovePDF, it's online so it works for everyone, and it is free and easy to use
ILovePDF is wonderful. If your company needs to be HIPPA compliant their subscription w/desktop app is cheaper than most others.
Use GIMP or LibreOffice Draw
+1 for LibreOffice. I use PDFGear for my primary now though
Inkscape
I legitimately do not know why my work pays for adobe acrobat for all employees. Apple Preview is good enough for all the engineers with macbooks
To all the windows users out there, just use Okular its free and available in the Microsoft Store. its a KDE application and still better than Adobe imo.
I love Okular on my Linux (EndeavourOS with KDE Plasma 6). Wasn't aware Okular was available on PC. Thanks for the info.
pdf24 is very neat.
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