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submitted 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) by Stamets@lemmy.dbzer0.com to c/whitepeopletwitter@sh.itjust.works

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Now. Why am I wrong for Libre

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[–] ALoafOfBread@lemmy.ml 19 points 6 days ago (38 children)

You can in libreoffice draw for sure.

[–] antonim@lemmy.dbzer0.com 14 points 6 days ago (37 children)

Yeah but it's pretty limited and personally I could never get it to work, it couldn't handle larger files. Had to pirate some other program to do anything serious.

[–] gustofwind@lemmy.world 5 points 6 days ago (36 children)

Are there any good free pdf editors anyway? I’ve always had to use a premium product in the end 😔

[–] WalrusDragonOnABike@reddthat.com 2 points 6 days ago (2 children)

I've yet to find one. Pdf24 is free but not Foss and decent for certain tasks, but it's not a great editor. After using the paid version of xchange for as long as I have, using free options just leaves me disappointed.

[–] antonim@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (2 children)

What's kind of weird is that there seems to be no other program coming close to Xchange's range. I've tried a bunch of them and they're basically toys compared to it. There evidently is some demand, but just one company meeting it fully? Is editing PDFs particularly technically difficult?

[–] WalrusDragonOnABike@reddthat.com 3 points 6 days ago

And the one company won't release a Linux version either. Sure, Wine exists, but it's not nearly as good as native support.

No clue how complicated PDFs, with all of its different versions are. Especially if some software make PDFs that don't even comply with official spec (not sure how often happens though).

[–] bufalo1973@piefed.social 2 points 6 days ago

Try to open a text PDF with LibreOffice and you might see why is so difficult to work with them. You can find that all the text is spread in one field for each line, not a unique text box.

[–] BenLeMan@lemmy.world 1 points 6 days ago

PDF Xchange Editor is cool. Thanks to it I haven't had a need for Adobe software on my PC in years.

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