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When you realize Firefox can merge PDFs for free (sh.itjust.works)

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[–] HubertManne@piefed.social 46 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I don't get the hate in the comments. there is plenty to complain with firefox but adding the pdf features is not one of them.

[–] hirihit640@sh.itjust.works 47 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Much of Lemmy believes that if a person or entity does one bad thing, then the person or entity itself is bad. Of course taken to the logical conclusion this means that we would all have to live in caves to be moral. But each of those lemmy users has their own set of mental gymnastics for why their chosen set of conveniences is justified.

[–] idunnololz@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago

Anyone more moral than me is insane and anyone less moral than me is hitler. /s

[–] rustydrd@sh.itjust.works 41 points 1 month ago (3 children)

[–] BrilliantantTurd4361@sh.itjust.works 11 points 1 month ago

Best use of this meme ever. 👏👏👏

[–] Hugh@programming.dev 6 points 1 month ago

see also

pdfunite from the poppler or poppler-utils package
mutool merge from the mupdf-tools package

[–] Avicenna@programming.dev 2 points 1 month ago

[–] weps@lemmy.world 27 points 1 month ago (1 children)

how about uploading sensitive company data to a random website that merges pdfs

[–] emergencyfood@sh.itjust.works 5 points 1 month ago

This is the way.

[–] TastehWaffleZ@lemmy.world 27 points 1 month ago

What a cute meme template

[–] Dagnet@lemmy.world 19 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (3 children)

https://www.bentopdf.com/

can also selfhost

[–] fonix232@fedia.io 5 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Double triple quadruple +1 on BentoPDF.

[–] qarbone@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Is that additive or multiplicative?

Is that +10 or +24?

[–] fonix232@fedia.io 5 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Yes.

[–] qarbone@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago

I hope you're happy. I divided because you said 'yes' and it made me ugly!

I just now became ugly because of what you did.

[–] Voroxpete@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 month ago

Came here to recommend Bento, it's fantastic

[–] noodNinja@sh.itjust.works -1 points 1 month ago

stirlingpdf is good too for self hosting

[–] gatitaQwQ@lemmy.world 16 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I've been using Firefox for a while now. I don't see anything wrong with it. I don't understand why people hate it so much.

[–] CancerMancer@sh.itjust.works 6 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Firefox is obviously way worse than supporting the unholy amount of data harvesting being done by billionaires enabling them to control even more of our lives... Right?

[+] gatitaQwQ@lemmy.world -9 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (3 children)

Damn, I used to think Firefox was at least slightly less secure than Chrome and other browsers. But after learning more about data collection, I’m going to start using Brave instead. This capitalist world is crazy—many Android apps contain trackers and collect far more data than they need. It feels like nothing is truly safe because every option has its own problems. It’s frustrating that companies such as Google collect and profit from people’s personal data. Their greed seems endless: they always want more users and more data to monetize.

[–] JadedBlueEyes@programming.dev 11 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Brave is literally a crypto scam ran by a bigot that replaces publishers ads with its own, WHY would you use it 😭

[–] calcopiritus@lemmy.world 10 points 1 month ago (1 children)

If you think Firefox collects too much data about you. Which I doubt. You can go with any privacy focused Firefox fork such as libre wolf. Why would you go to a chrome based browser?

[–] gatitaQwQ@lemmy.world -1 points 1 month ago (3 children)

Some people say Brave is almost on the same level as Firefox for blocking ads, but others don't like it because it's too similar to Chrome. I'm still not sure which browser to use, so I'll check F-Droid for a more secure option

[–] Holytimes@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Brave is LITTERALLY chrome but with a built in ad blocker. Thats it. If you think firefox harvests your data like mad i have some bad news about brave.

[–] kestrel7_7@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago

Brave sucks, they have scammy built-in crypto stuff and the CEO is a bigot. They’ve also been caught doing shady stuff like injecting their own ads in place of other ads. If you care about privacy and no ads, just use Firefox + ublock, or Librewolf.

[–] zarkanian@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 month ago

Some people say Brave is almost on the same level as Firefox for blocking ads

Why not just use Firefox, though.

others don’t like it because it’s too similar to Chrome.

It isn't "too similar to Chrome"; it is Chrome. Brave is a Chrome-based browser.

Here's a really in-depth article about why Brave is sketchy. Without even getting into the CEO's politics, the company itself has done several scummy things over the years.

What I recommend is using Zen Browser with uBlock Origin.

[–] zarkanian@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

What data collection is Firefox doing?

[–] griselbrandalf@reddthat.com 15 points 1 month ago

https://itsfoss.com/firefox-pdf-merge/

[–] caseyweederman@lemmy.ca 14 points 1 month ago

Taking screenshots of each page and stitching them together into one enormously long jpg in Gimp:

[–] dogdeanafternoon@lemmy.ca 11 points 1 month ago (1 children)

In case any Mac users are unaware, any Mac with OS post 2007 can do this natively with Preview. It’s very handy.

[–] corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 month ago (3 children)

Ah so THAT'S what preview can do. My mother-in-law asked and I had nothing to tell her.

[–] WolfLink@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 month ago

It does almost everything people need Adobe Acrobat for, and also you can make some minor adjustments to photos like cropping, and convert between formats.

[–] a_non_monotonic_function@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago

You can do a bit with it. View PDFs, enter info in fields, mark things up, draw basic images, compose images into others, sign documents, etc.

I keep a copy of my signature in preview for work. Love it.

[–] kestrel7_7@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago

Preview is great for making low effort memes

[–] MadameBisaster@lemmy.blahaj.zone 7 points 1 month ago

LibreOffice Draw also works really well for merging pdfs

[–] MisterD@lemmy.ca 6 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

Can delete one page in a PDF in Firefox?

UPDATE: this feature is coming soon! It's in the nightly versions of Firefox

[–] Railcar8095@lemmy.world 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

"Print as PDF", select the pages to print. That's universal.

[–] MisterD@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 month ago

Not quite what I wanted but it should work.

[–] Theoriginalthon@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago

I've been using pdfsam since before I remember, I know it has a funky interface, and it has premium at cost features, but for basic split and merge it's fine

[–] DarrinBrunner@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago

YSK, PDF files can harbor significant risks, this has been ongoing for years, vulnerabilities crop up and they get patched. More crop up, meaning who knows what is currently unpatched?

From February of this year:

https://cybersecuritynews.com/jspdf-vulnerability-injection-attacks/

[–] eco_game@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 1 month ago

While this is certainly neat, I can also highly recommend PDF Arranger. I've been using it forever and it can do all types of PDF stitching.