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Editing PDFs contents (lemmy.world)

submitted 6 hours ago by iturnedintoanewt@lemmy.world to c/linux@lemmy.ml

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Hi guys! I'm considering some tool to edit the texts and images within a PDF. What would be some decent recommendations? So far I think the only with a semblance of working has been Libreoffice Draw, but it messed the formatting quite a lot (the arrangement is very much off in many pages, the text splits incorrectly, some images pop up duplicated and so on). But so far it's the only one I've seen actually allowing me to play with the PDF contents. Are there any other/better options?

Thanks!

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[–] Lodespawn@aussie.zone 1 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

On a slightly different tangent does anyone have any recommendations for good applications that can generate markups on pdfs rather than editting the contents? Like adding redline markups to a pdf of a cad drawing?

[–] brickfrog@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 5 hours ago* (last edited 5 hours ago) (1 children)

LibreOffice Draw can do markup and much more, the downside like OP mentioned is that sometimes the formatting of the PDF can get messed up so it's a bit hit-or-miss.

Beyond that try Firefox (yes the web browser), its PDF markup capabilities are way better than you'd expect and the PDF formatting tends to stay intact. It's probably better than LibreOffice for simple markup stuff, I just wish Firefox included a way to draw straight lines/arrows and shapes (circles, squares, etc.) to complete the markup toolbox. It does have a pen and highlighter but drawing an arrow via mouse looks a bit janky, LOL.

If you do a lot of the same type of markup (say an arrow pointed right) you could probably just save an image of an arrow and keep pasting it into the Firefox PDF editor, it'll probably look better vs drawing them out.

[–] eldavi@lemmy.ml 1 points 4 hours ago

if you're good at desktop publishing, you can make draw work. i've done it a couple of times for apartment leases.