Any recommendations for a PDF editor? I’ve been using LibreOffice Draw, but it doesn’t seem to preserve all the formatting/positioning.

    • Dario@feddit.itEnglish
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      2 years ago

      +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)

  • tetris11English
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    2 years ago

    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    It has a horrible outdated interface, but it makes layerwise edits and preserves the original data of the doc.

  • mr_freezeEnglish
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    2 years ago

    I’ve used Inkscape to good effect before (although, typically only for single page documents). Sometimes the fonts give trouble, but the placement is typically good.

  • octogenarian_potatoEnglish
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    2 years ago

    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.

  • authEnglish
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    2 years ago

    I haven’t noticed that w/ LibreOffice Draw and I’m quite happy with it

  • Cambionn@feddit.nlEnglish
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    2 years ago

    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.

  • vintprox@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    1 year ago

    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.

  • pbmonster@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    2 years ago

    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.