PDFs are kind of nice. but ideally we, as a society, took a wrong turn somewhere when we opted for complex proprietary bloated filetypes that nobody can understand or use.
this post was submitted on 31 Mar 2024
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FYI, every version of macOS for over two decades has PDF creating/editing/signing built into the Preview app for free.
If you don't use Macs, you should at least be friends with someone who does.
Just switched to Linux and this is one thing I haven’t found a good solution for yet.
My only real use case is the “fill and sign” features in Adobe Reader. That allows filling with text boxes wherever I want and importing my actual handwritten signature which looks indistinguishable from print > sign > scanned.
It's garbage at CJK. Half the time your input characters disappear after saving and exiting
I have never experienced using CJK but you should raise the issue
Check this: https://github.com/Stirling-Tools/Stirling-PDF
Since you are on Linux just Start it in a Docker container locally and you are golden :)
I do love me some docker. I’ll check it out. Thanks.
PDFxchange is good
Anyone ever used free tools like pdfescape or others?
I use various apps for editing PDFs.
- Firefox for quick and small edits
- Xournal++ for typing and drawing over the document to make a new document
- LibreOffice Draw, also for the above
Use ILovePDF, it's online so it works for everyone, and it is free and easy to use
ILovePDF is wonderful. If your company needs to be HIPPA compliant their subscription w/desktop app is cheaper than most others.