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alexdeathway @programming.dev

9 mo. ago • 100%

open source pdf editor for linux based os?

currently using libreoffice draw.

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For small edits I usually use https://xournalpp.github.io/

I think OnlyOffice also recently added PDF editing.

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- I second xournalpp. I used the older xournal to get through university.
  
  Also, if you only have to add some text or images you can use firefox.
  
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This is an intuitive PDF page editor for linux: Pdfmixtool

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It's very limited, but you can use Gimp or Inkscape to edit a pdf in a pinch. IIRC gimp can't edit existing text in pdf, but inkscape can.

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- I used Inkscape a lot on PDFs with forms and broken layout. The beauty of it, you can fix other problems, too, use your own font or change the font of existing text. (:
  
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Stirling-PDF is amazing

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- Oh wow how have I not heard of this before?! It looks incredible
  
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What kind of edits are we talking? Firefox can add signatures and text now in its built-in pdf reader.

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- résumés and stuff
  
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  You don't need a PDF editor to create PDF's, you can print to PDF in any program that can print, including LibreOffice Writer.
  
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Do you mean "Based" OS or based os?

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LibreOffice Draw can make changes to PDFs.

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- having layering(hope that the right word for a group of text, icons and symbols) issue where icons and symbols go missing or get replaced by square boxes
  
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  Try to make sure you have all of the fonts used by the PDF installed on your system. I tend to only make small changes, but not having the correct fonts causes issues for me.
  
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