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!

  • undrwater@lemmy.world
    6·
    1 day ago

    I’ve found the best tool for carving up PDFs is xournal++. It does a better job at maintaining formatting than Draw as well.

    • Brickfrog@lemmy.dbzer0.com
      2·
      22 hours ago

      That’s a pretty good one, hadn’t heard about it until you mentioned it. xournal++ is great at marking up PDF files and was able to keep the layout formatting intact with my janky test PDF (a sad document that must have been print-to-pdf’d multiple times under Windows).

      I also like that it’s easy to use and has just about every markup tool you’d want, all the stuff that Firefox is missing.

      Only thing missing is that it doesn’t have the advanced .pdf export options that the other tools have, but that’s kind of minor… figure I could open/re-export the marked up .pdf in another application if I really want to configure any advanced .pdf options for the final document.