Hello everyone, I was wondering if anyone knew of a FOSS editing app to use on PDFs, just to add text and and mark things out, I tried GNU image editor but it just works on images exclusively. Any ideas are appreciated, thanks.

  • unwarlikeExtortion@lemmy.ml
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    8 months ago

    Inkscape.

    Some people mentioned Inkscape and I can’t recommend it enough because it’s my goto FOSS PDF editor.

    It’s not made for PDFs and it shows, bit regardless it’s absolutely incredible how versatile it is.

    You can keep the formatting, it’s vector so no loss of percieved quality, and its Text tool is easy (and fast) to use.

    The only problem is each page has to be imported and exported seperstely - you’ll have to use something else to combine them

    As far as signing goes, if it can be a classic squiggle it’s perfect - there’s a few pen tools and one has smoothing so you can play with it a bit until the signature looks good.

    On mobile, so excuse any typos.

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      8 months ago

      Absolutely. And I think a proper “Export to PDF” in Inkscape is something that should be high on the list of “future features” in Inkscape. Editing the PDF in Inkscape is heaven, having to re-join the pages to one big PDF afterwards is (unnecessary) hell.