WaterBottleOnAShelf ( @WaterBottleOnAShelf@lemmy.nz ) 38•2 years agoAnd a very good pdf editor to you sir! tips hat
heartlessevil ( @heartlessevil@lemmy.one ) English16•2 years agohttps://wiki.archlinux.org/title/PDF,_PS_and_DjVu#Graphical_PDF_editing
None of them are very good tbh
crow ( @crow@beehaw.org ) English5•2 years 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•2 years 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•2 years 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•2 years 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•2 years 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•2 years agowowah! First time I heard about this! Thank you!! LibreOffice for the win!
Damage ( @Damage@feddit.it ) 3•2 years agoSo far Draw has been the best I’ve used for this purpose
UltraCoInc ( @UltraCoInc@feddit.nl ) 3•2 years 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•2 years agoOkular or Scribe
lostalejandro ( @lostalejandro@lemmy.dbzer0.com ) 2•2 years agoScribus ftw!!
Hellfire103 ( @hellfire103@sopuli.xyz ) English7•2 years agoOkular. Okular all the way.
bbbhltz ( @bbbhltz@beehaw.org ) 7•2 years agoIf it isn’t an entire book.l, Inkscape does do PDF editing. LibreOffice Draw does as well.
Andy ( @Andy@programming.dev ) 6•2 years agoI don’t think I saw Xournal++ (AKA Xournalpp) mentioned yet, which has helped me once or twice.
jaum22 ( @jaum22@lemmy.eco.br ) 5•2 years 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•2 years agoWow, that is pretty nice. Thanks!
biddy ( @biddy@feddit.nl ) 3•2 years agoThat sounds like an excellent idea. I look forward to it very much.
Rentlar ( @Rentlar@beehaw.org ) 3•2 years 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•2 years agoHow much do you need to do? PDFSAM has been very good to me if you just need basic operations.