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Sayer of the N-Word said:
What good software is out there to let me edit pdf files? I am not going to pay for Adobe, I would rather take screenshots of every page and edit them with MS Paint, but if there's some third party software I'd be willing to pay $20-$30 if there's nothing free.
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foxit reader?
 
herefortheactualthreads said:
foxit reader?
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I want to be able to edit text and remove images. It looks like Foxit sells an editor that is an "AI powered" SAAS, and if that was all I had then I would just photocopy typewritten pages with images taped to the page or drawn by hand. I'm not being hyperbolic.
 
Sayer of the N-Word said:
I want to be able to edit text and remove images. It looks like Foxit sells an editor that is an "AI powered" SAAS, and if that was all I had then I would just photocopy typewritten pages with images taped to the page or drawn by hand. I'm not being hyperbolic.
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well it edits texts for free, didnt know you also wanted to remove images. i didnt know they sell ai stuff, my bad.
 
Sayer of the N-Word said:
What good software is out there to let me edit pdf files? I am not going to pay for Adobe, I would rather take screenshots of every page and edit them with MS Paint, but if there's some third party software I'd be willing to pay $20-$30 if there's nothing free.
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Depending on your definition of 'good'.... if you just need to do basic text editing to, for example, make edits to a bank statement or an invoice or something like that, Libreoffice Draw can work for that, often.
 
Best encrypted/open source notes app? Using Joplin with Syncthing but debating switching over to Standard Notes or Notesnook.
 
Paul Revere Pantry Raider said:
docker run -p 8080:8080 docker.stirlingpdf.com/stirlingtools/stirling-pdf

Fucking really?
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SchloppyI.T.Man said:
I was going to say, bentopdf which is another self-hosted solution.
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Skill issues for the both of you:
- Just get the windows installer : https://github.com/Stirling-Tools/Stirling-PDF/releases
- Or, from the official website : https://www.stirling.com/download

And running the app in a container is also perfectly fine.
 
Sayer of the N-Word said:
What good software is out there to let me edit pdf files? I am not going to pay for Adobe, I would rather take screenshots of every page and edit them with MS Paint, but if there's some third party software I'd be willing to pay $20-$30 if there's nothing free.
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I've found PDF-Xchange to be excellent. It's essentially the only perpetual-licensed PDF editor left out there that isn't going to rugpull you.
There's a free version but I think the editing features are rather limited in it.
 
Sayer of the N-Word said:
$62... I'll have to think about it. I've run into so much bullshit with pdfs, though, this is probably a worthwhile investment.
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Seriously- if you haven't tried LibreOffice Draw yet, just try using that first. It's worth having LibreOffice installed regardless, I still find the CSV import in Calc better than Excel even with the recentish updates to not automatically mangle numbers and dates.
 
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Seriously- if you haven't tried LibreOffice Draw yet, just try using that first. It's worth having LibreOffice installed regardless, I still find the CSV import in Calc better than Excel even with the recentish updates to not automatically mangle numbers and dates.
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I'll second this. LibreOffice is an excellent, FREE and not 'as a service' suite that works every bit as well as the older fully functional and useful M$ office suites as well as fully compatible with .doc, .xls etc. Good software.
 
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Seriously- if you haven't tried LibreOffice Draw yet, just try using that first. It's worth having LibreOffice installed regardless, I still find the CSV import in Calc better than Excel even with the recentish updates to not automatically mangle numbers and dates.
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I gave it a shot and it borked a good chunk of the text:

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I need to be able to edit preexisting PDFs as well as create new ones.
 

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Sayer of the N-Word said:
I gave it a shot and it borked a good chunk of the text:

I need to be able to edit preexisting PDFs as well as create new ones.
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Ah, that's a pity. Like I say, I've used it to edit invoices and bank statements (FOR TOTALLY LEGITIMATE REASONS) and it worked well, but expect that it might shit the bed where you have fonts embedded in the PDFs and shit like that. You could maybe try checking if those characters show up if you change them to another font, if some particularly bizarre font is used in the PDF.

I was just thinking, you could maybe use the Ghostscript or Poppler command line tools to convert a PDF to PostScript, edit the PostScript, and then convert back to PDF. Tried it with a pretty simple input PDF and WOULD NOT RECOMMEND, there would be serious work involved in editing the output from the pdf2ps or pdftops conversion to be clean enough that you could just modify/add text, without it looking fucky. Sounds like for your purpose you're down to either the (potentially selfhosted) web app or paying for something.
 
Just want a notes app that I can sync markdown notes via Syncthing. Have been using Joplin, but the Flatpak wont even open on Fedora anymore due to an electron issue. Hate the interface too. Testing Logseq but seems kinda lame. I know Obsidian is not opensource but I actually kinda believe they arent using trackers or are spyware. Am I naive?
 
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