Any recommendations for a PDF editor? I’ve been using LibreOffice Draw, but it doesn’t seem to preserve all the formatting/positioning.
Unfortunately not open source, but I have good experience with Master pdf Editor. It “is a proprietary application to edit PDF documents on Linux, Windows and macOS. It can create, edit (insert text or images), annotate, view, encrypt, and sign PDF documents.”: https://www.linuxuprising.com/2019/04/download-master-pdf-editor-4-for-linux.html
+1 for master PDF editor. It’s the only one that I found working. There are 2 version: one completely free (V4) and one with subscription (V5)
Xournalpp is what you are looking for.
It has a horrible outdated interface, but it makes layerwise edits and preserves the original data of the doc.
To the best of my knowledge, there isn’t a good FOSS PDF editor.
There’s LibreOffice Draw, but as you said, it messes up the formatting. There’s also Inkscape, but good luck if you have pages of text. You can also try Scribus, but I wouldn’t say it’s good (or intuitive).
If all you want to do is write over a PDF, put (not edit, nor remove) text, formulae, or images, then Xournal++ is very decent.
If I need to edit a PDF, I use (*gags*) Adobe Acrobat running in Wine (with Lutris is very easy). It’s as proprietary and evil as it can be, but it’s good at editing PDFs.
I haven’t noticed that w/ LibreOffice Draw and I’m quite happy with it
What are you doing with it? Okular is a nice FOSS solution for viewing, annotating, signing, etc. which covers many people’s usage. If you really need a full editor, I would generally stick with Adobe’s stuff. Don’t know any free or FOSS solution that works better.
Depends what you wanna do, xournal for free edits is good. If it’s a simple document OnlyOffice imports pdfs also.
Inkscape is the only strong tool for editing PDF that I can recommend today. Even though I’m unsure about semantics, it helped me a lot recently.
I’m using pdftk to add/remove pages, which works perfectly. Also does stuff like rotate some pages, ect. Easily scriptable, so stapling together all the PDFs in a dictionary is super easy.
For actual editing (removing text, adding complex things), I just use Inkscape. How well that works depends on the PDF itself.
And just highlighting text is something every single PDF viewer can do nowadays.
