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PDF editor on Linux? (lemmy.ml)

submitted 8 months ago by trippingonthewire@lemmy.ml to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

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Hello everyone, I was wondering if anyone knew of a FOSS editing app to use on PDFs, just to add text and and mark things out, I tried GNU image editor but it just works on images exclusively. Any ideas are appreciated, thanks.

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[–] unwarlikeExtortion@lemmy.ml 13 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Inkscape.

Some people mentioned Inkscape and I can't recommend it enough because it's my goto FOSS PDF editor.

It's not made for PDFs and it shows, bit regardless it's absolutely incredible how versatile it is.

You can keep the formatting, it's vector so no loss of percieved quality, and its Text tool is easy (and fast) to use.

The only problem is each page has to be imported and exported seperstely - you'll have to use something else to combine them

As far as signing goes, if it can be a classic squiggle it's perfect - there's a few pen tools and one has smoothing so you can play with it a bit until the signature looks good.

On mobile, so excuse any typos.

[–] Treczoks@kbin.social 5 points 8 months ago (2 children)

Absolutely. And I think a proper "Export to PDF" in Inkscape is something that should be high on the list of "future features" in Inkscape. Editing the PDF in Inkscape is heaven, having to re-join the pages to one big PDF afterwards is (unnecessary) hell.

[–] 56_@lemmy.ml 1 points 8 months ago (1 children)

I can import and export multi-page PDFs into inkskape just fine. No need to do each page individually.

[–] Treczoks@kbin.social 1 points 8 months ago (1 children)

I can only import multipage PDFs in 1.3.2. Export produces a bunch of single-page PDF files. What version do you use?

[–] 56_@lemmy.ml 1 points 8 months ago

My version also seems to be 1.3.2. When I select (*.pdf) from the export panel, it lets me select all the pages at once, which results in a single PDF.

[–] miss_brainfarts@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 8 months ago (2 children)

I was under the impression that the ability to export a project as a multi-page pdf has been added not long ago, but I might have to check

[–] Treczoks@kbin.social 2 points 8 months ago (1 children)

I've got Inkscape 1.3.2 and so far I have not found to export it as one multipage PDF, only as a batch of numbered single-page PDFs.

[–] miss_brainfarts@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 8 months ago

Checked again to make sure, it's not very straightforward because it's not part of the Export menu:

You simply have to do File > save a copy and save it as a pdf.

https://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/Multipage

[–] jlow@beehaw.org 2 points 8 months ago

Yeah, you can export multiple-page PDFs and https://floss.social/@doctormo is working on revamping how it's handling colour so we will eventually get propper CMYK support and other cool stuff