The new ability to edit PDFs in @firefox makes my life a helluva lot easier.

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    1 year ago

    Didn’t know that was a thing. Built in or need a. Extension? What kind of editing is enabled(fill, sign, full edit…?) and how would you compare it to other solutions and online editors?

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      1 year ago

      It’s just filling forms, adding text, and drawing. It doesn’t have actual editing capabilities.

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          Things like changing, moving, or deleting text and images, inserting or reordering pages, and editing the table of contents.
          There’s not many open source programs capable of doing that. Pdftk and LibreOffice Draw are probably the best options right now.

          • maccentric
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            1 year ago

            Ooh, I hadn’t realized that LibreOffice had that capability, good to know

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    It amazes me there aren’t more pdf editors. Adobe basically said it’s freeware years ago.

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    There’s still the feature that allows you to print a PDF even if the print permission is denied?

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    1 year ago

    Were you attempting to create a lemmy thread or just making a one-off mastodon post? Cause it got kind of popular.