• 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?

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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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        Well, 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.

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          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.

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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.

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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.

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

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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.

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

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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.