• @crow@beehaw.org
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      511 months ago

      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
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        1011 months ago

        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.

        • @hstde@feddit.de
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          111 months ago

          Probably the same reason it takes so long to come up with third party flash interpreters.

          I mean flash isn’t exactly new, but for the longest time there was only Adobe flash.

  • guillermohs9
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    1211 months ago

    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.

    • @UltraCoInc@feddit.nl
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      311 months ago

      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.

  • @MJBrune@beehaw.org
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    1111 months ago

    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.

  • bbbhltz
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    711 months ago

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

  • Rentlar
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    311 months ago

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

  • dtm [Iowa]
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    111 months ago

    How much do you need to do? PDFSAM has been very good to me if you just need basic operations.