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Editing PDFs contents (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 week 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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[–] vort3@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Others have already explained about PDF not being easy to edit and lack of FOSS tools.

The only advice I can give is that PDF XChange editor works well under Wine if you have it.

[–] iturnedintoanewt@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

PDF XChange edito

Thanks I've never heard of them and I'll check them out.

[–] vort3@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 week ago

IMHO it's the best PDF editor out there, idk why Adobe is considered the standard PDF software when it's so terrible compared to PDF XChange. XChange editor has every possible tool I ever needed, you can move around objects, change text, move and rotate and crop pages etc. It's just so good. You can't even edit text in adobe acrobat properly because it will break the text layout, in XChange you can if you're careful with fonts, spacing, indents etc.

It's miles ahead of adobe acrobat and works in Linux as well, I know it's proprietary and pursists will hate me but it's my go to tool when I need to do anything serious with PDF in both windows and linux.