Just so yall know, Firefox added a pdf editor.
Even Edge is a pretty good Windows default for viewing and editing PDFs.
So edge is the better app!
Was glad to see it. It’s a very basic start.
Firefox just added PDF editing to the native browser!
Let’s get this bread
To all the windows users out there, just use Okular its free and available in the Microsoft Store. its a KDE application and still better than Adobe imo.
I love Okular on my Linux (EndeavourOS with KDE Plasma 6). Wasn’t aware Okular was available on PC. Thanks for the info.
Also, macOS has some built in PDF editing tools in Preview. You can add text, signatures, draw lines and shapes, highlight, add notes, and split or combine PDFs.
Money aside, Adobe tools for PDF have gotten worse. Ten years ago Adobe was much easier and robust.
All my opinion, of course.
I definitely agree that it’s getting harder to use. Working in print, I use it every day and every time they update the ui they find ways to slow down my work flow. My favourite is when they change or even remove keyboard shotcuts that have worked forever or hide certain tools because they’ve added a newer, worse way to do the same thing.
Haven’t used any Adobe programs for over a decade but I believe you. Almost everything’s getting worse, smaller (except when that’s desirable), less robust and more error prone while simultaneously getting much more expensive.
Shrinkshittififlation is the new bullshit norm.
It’s not just your opinion when it’s objectively true.
There is at least 1 issue a day with Adobe at my office. Its not 100% adobe’s fault but I side-eye those millions of services they install for their app suite.
Public service announcement: Open a PDF using Word and you can edit it, though sometimes the formatting gets weird.
The latest update from Firefox also lets you edit PDFs in the browser, and without any formatting weirdness
What? That’s amazing!
Did you know you can unzip PowerPoint files?
Inkscape, which is free and open source, does a very competent job of taking part .pdfs and allowing you to modify them these days.
pdf24 is very neat.
I still think it’s crazy that, as a researcher who has to read a lot of PDFs, I can barely find any usable alternatives to Acrobat that have basic annotation features. This is especially true for Android platforms, where I do most of my reading.
Use GIMP or LibreOffice Draw
+1 for LibreOffice. I use PDFGear for my primary now though
There are alternatives, fortunately. If you need to do a lot of editing, Nitro is pretty good. You can pay about $15 a month for it, or pay a one time cost of like $180 and have a lifetime license. If you don’t like Nitro, there’s plenty of others.
What pisses me off is that Adobe marketing has people locked in with that “Pro Tools” mindset. So many gullible dumbasses think if you don’t use Adobe (or Pro Tools) you just can’t be taken seriously, and you don’t have a “real, professional tool”. I think that is less true today than it used to be, but it’s still out there.
(Meanwhile if you need a Pro Tools alternative, Reaper is the fucking bomb.)
The software is entrenched. If you’re a graphic designer who exchanges project files with others, you have to use Adobe CC because everyone else is. There’s really no way around that unfortunately.
You have more options if you’re a freelancer who doesn’t need to collaborate however.
That’s definitely true. I am mostly complaining about the attitude of contempt some people show for anyone trying to change the landscape. It’s like learned helplessness that morphed into smugness (with some people). I totally get it if that’s what the boss makes you use. It’s not your job to fix that problem.
Wish Reaper was intuitive like Garageband. I need to take like a weekend crash course to understand the basics.
Avast, yee scallywags!
You can now edit PDFs on Firefox
Or a handful of other, open source applications
Who really pay for Adobe pdf suite ?
Really I can find many open source solution that can edit PDF, even OCR the PDF for free (you might need to run OCR engine with your CPU, or pay for OCR service)
Eeww. I’m going to kink shame here.
How come adobe managed to pull off some weird “monopoly” with that file format? 🙃
I think, because Corp. In Corp, they want someone to be in charge, and take reponsible when something mess up. It is easy for IT to proposed to buy a solution, because the vendor take responsible for mess up, rather than use open-source and have to fix bug themselves.
There are also case where developer push malware into open-source.
This is another example, corp pay to use open source (https://tidelift.com/). They are paying to have someone to cover them if something mess up, like a reliable mantainer.
So i think that why corp still pay for pdf solution, e-signing and stuff like that rather than implement from open source solution.
