WaterBottleOnAShelf ( @WaterBottleOnAShelf@lemmy.nz ) 38•11 months agoAnd a very good pdf editor to you sir! tips hat
heartlessevil ( @heartlessevil@lemmy.one ) English16•11 months agohttps://wiki.archlinux.org/title/PDF,_PS_and_DjVu#Graphical_PDF_editing
None of them are very good tbh
crow ( @crow@beehaw.org ) English5•11 months agoWhy is that? It’s not like PDF’s are new. If it’s licensing are there non-legal PDF editors that work well?
lemmyvore ( @lemmyvore@feddit.nl ) English10•11 months agoWasn’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.
heartlessevil ( @heartlessevil@lemmy.one ) English7•11 months agoWell, there’s Acrobat. I think that the issue is that PDF is a deceptively complicated format. It’s basically a programming language for describing pages to print. So it’s not like parsing a JPG or something, you need a PDF interpreter. And I imagine the Adobe one is encumbered.
hstde ( @hstde@feddit.de ) 1•11 months agoProbably 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.
I wonder the same, something od adobe? it’s the only one that works.
yeah I know I tried some of them.
guillermohs9 ( @guillermohs9@lemmy.ml ) 12•11 months agoI 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.
sculd ( @sculd@beehaw.org ) 4•11 months agowowah! First time I heard about this! Thank you!! LibreOffice for the win!
Damage ( @Damage@feddit.it ) 3•11 months agoSo far Draw has been the best I’ve used for this purpose
UltraCoInc ( @UltraCoInc@feddit.nl ) 3•11 months agoYeah, 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.
Redscroll ( @redscroll@lemmy.ml ) 11•11 months agoOkular or Scribe
lostalejandro ( @lostalejandro@lemmy.dbzer0.com ) 2•11 months agoScribus ftw!!
Hellfire103 ( @hellfire103@sopuli.xyz ) English7•11 months agoOkular. Okular all the way.
bbbhltz ( @bbbhltz@beehaw.org ) 7•11 months agoIf it isn’t an entire book.l, Inkscape does do PDF editing. LibreOffice Draw does as well.
Andy ( @Andy@programming.dev ) 6•11 months agoI don’t think I saw Xournal++ (AKA Xournalpp) mentioned yet, which has helped me once or twice.
jaum22 ( @jaum22@lemmy.eco.br ) 5•11 months agoI use master pdf editor 4. O know it is not foss, but it was the best option for linux IMO.
kglitch ( @kglitch@kglitch.social ) 3•11 months agoWow, that is pretty nice. Thanks!
biddy ( @biddy@feddit.nl ) 3•11 months agoThat sounds like an excellent idea. I look forward to it very much.
Rentlar ( @Rentlar@beehaw.org ) 3•11 months agoFor quick and dirty edits leading to rasterization of the PDF (i.e no more text fields), use can use GIMP.
dtm [Iowa] ( @dtm@midwest.social ) 1•11 months agoHow much do you need to do? PDFSAM has been very good to me if you just need basic operations.