PDF Editor Alternatives, Preferably Open Source

black3dynamite

@scottalanmiller said in PDF Editor Alternatives, Preferably Open Source:

We've got someone testing out LibreOffice Draw 6 now, to see how much of what they need it will do.

Its pretty slow for me when loading a pdf document with a lot of pages. And the text on some of the pages is not formatted correctly.

krisleslie

Scott it will work but your mileage will vary. There is more than one kind of PDF version so it really depends on the source of where you "pulling" the pdfs from. Are they PDF's they are getting from other companies (like marketing stuff) that they wanna pull data out of? Those are the worst usually.

scottalanmiller

@krisleslie said in PDF Editor Alternatives, Preferably Open Source:

Scott it will work but your mileage will vary. There is more than one kind of PDF version so it really depends on the source of where you "pulling" the pdfs from. Are they PDF's they are getting from other companies (like marketing stuff) that they wanna pull data out of? Those are the worst usually.

I don't really have a good idea of what the use case is, yet.

FATeknollogee

I use Master PDF

It's a cross platform PDF editor for macOS, Windows and Linux.

krisleslie

@fateknollogee thank you sir!

stacksofplates

I’ve done it with Inkscape before. That’s not too bad.

scottalanmiller

@stacksofplates said in PDF Editor Alternatives, Preferably Open Source:

I’ve done it with Inkscape before. That’s not too bad.

I noticed a lot of sites recommending that, as well.

flaxking

I've used pdftk and pdfsam for merging before.

dbeato

I recommend PDFElement as @JaredBusch noted and Pdf Architect. They both work well at a decent price. Foxit Reader allows you to comment PDF like a lot of other tools but those are my recommendations.

dafyre

@scottalanmiller said in PDF Editor Alternatives, Preferably Open Source:

@krisleslie said in PDF Editor Alternatives, Preferably Open Source:

I have a side question, is this for the legal industry or just general use?

General, it is sales people requesting it.

What is the possibility of using a converter to convert it to LibreOffice and then all future edits are done with LO... And just use the Export to PDF?

Obsolesce

@scottalanmiller said in PDF Editor Alternatives, Preferably Open Source:

@krisleslie said in PDF Editor Alternatives, Preferably Open Source:

If you want to keep it simple, if you head over to ninite.com they have:
Foxit Reader
Alternative PDF Reader 9.0.1.1049
LibreOffice
Free Office Suite 6.0.2 (JRE recommended)
SumatraPDF
Lightweight PDF Reader 3.1.2
CutePDF
Print Documents as PDF Files 3.2
PDFCreator
Print Documents as PDF Files 3.1.2.10844
OpenOffice

Most of those are readers, though. Foxit, for example, to edit is $130.

Yeah, but it works well and is cheaper than Adobe Pro. Foxit is our go to as well.

I should mention there are some users who need Adobe Pro where Foxit doesn't work 100%. But the details I don't know there.

scottalanmiller

@tim_g said in PDF Editor Alternatives, Preferably Open Source:

@scottalanmiller said in PDF Editor Alternatives, Preferably Open Source:

@krisleslie said in PDF Editor Alternatives, Preferably Open Source:

If you want to keep it simple, if you head over to ninite.com they have:
Foxit Reader
Alternative PDF Reader 9.0.1.1049
LibreOffice
Free Office Suite 6.0.2 (JRE recommended)
SumatraPDF
Lightweight PDF Reader 3.1.2
CutePDF
Print Documents as PDF Files 3.2
PDFCreator
Print Documents as PDF Files 3.1.2.10844
OpenOffice

Most of those are readers, though. Foxit, for example, to edit is $130.

Yeah, but it works well and is cheaper than Adobe Pro. Foxit is our go to as well.

I should mention there are some users who need Adobe Pro where Foxit doesn't work 100%. But the details I don't know there.

Foxit is what we already had. Looking if saving money from that is viable.

DustinB3403

@scottalanmiller Any update from whoever is evaluating LibreOffice?

Obsolesce

@scottalanmiller said in PDF Editor Alternatives, Preferably Open Source:

@tim_g said in PDF Editor Alternatives, Preferably Open Source:

@scottalanmiller said in PDF Editor Alternatives, Preferably Open Source:

@krisleslie said in PDF Editor Alternatives, Preferably Open Source:

If you want to keep it simple, if you head over to ninite.com they have:
Foxit Reader
Alternative PDF Reader 9.0.1.1049
LibreOffice
Free Office Suite 6.0.2 (JRE recommended)
SumatraPDF
Lightweight PDF Reader 3.1.2
CutePDF
Print Documents as PDF Files 3.2
PDFCreator
Print Documents as PDF Files 3.1.2.10844
OpenOffice

Most of those are readers, though. Foxit, for example, to edit is $130.

Yeah, but it works well and is cheaper than Adobe Pro. Foxit is our go to as well.

I should mention there are some users who need Adobe Pro where Foxit doesn't work 100%. But the details I don't know there.

Foxit is what we already had. Looking if saving money from that is viable.

There's probably copyrights and stuff with PDF. Otherwise PDF editors I'm sure would be more abundant. I know of no real ones that don't cost a decent amount of money. You're probably stuck paying for something like that, or change format.

JaredBusch

@scottalanmiller said in PDF Editor Alternatives, Preferably Open Source:

@tim_g said in PDF Editor Alternatives, Preferably Open Source:

@scottalanmiller said in PDF Editor Alternatives, Preferably Open Source:

@krisleslie said in PDF Editor Alternatives, Preferably Open Source:

If you want to keep it simple, if you head over to ninite.com they have:
Foxit Reader
Alternative PDF Reader 9.0.1.1049
LibreOffice
Free Office Suite 6.0.2 (JRE recommended)
SumatraPDF
Lightweight PDF Reader 3.1.2
CutePDF
Print Documents as PDF Files 3.2
PDFCreator
Print Documents as PDF Files 3.1.2.10844
OpenOffice

Most of those are readers, though. Foxit, for example, to edit is $130.

Yeah, but it works well and is cheaper than Adobe Pro. Foxit is our go to as well.

I should mention there are some users who need Adobe Pro where Foxit doesn't work 100%. But the details I don't know there.

Foxit is what we already had. Looking if saving money from that is viable.

PDFElement is $100, so it is a savings. But savings enough to retrain users? Maybe not.

iroal

For editing only free alternative I've found is LibreOffice, but it quite limited.

For merging I like pdf24, It works great.

momurda

@tim_g said in PDF Editor Alternatives, Preferably Open Source:

@scottalanmiller said in PDF Editor Alternatives, Preferably Open Source:

@tim_g said in PDF Editor Alternatives, Preferably Open Source:

@scottalanmiller said in PDF Editor Alternatives, Preferably Open Source:

@krisleslie said in PDF Editor Alternatives, Preferably Open Source:

If you want to keep it simple, if you head over to ninite.com they have:
Foxit Reader
Alternative PDF Reader 9.0.1.1049
LibreOffice
Free Office Suite 6.0.2 (JRE recommended)
SumatraPDF
Lightweight PDF Reader 3.1.2
CutePDF
Print Documents as PDF Files 3.2
PDFCreator
Print Documents as PDF Files 3.1.2.10844
OpenOffice

Most of those are readers, though. Foxit, for example, to edit is $130.

Yeah, but it works well and is cheaper than Adobe Pro. Foxit is our go to as well.

I should mention there are some users who need Adobe Pro where Foxit doesn't work 100%. But the details I don't know there.

Foxit is what we already had. Looking if saving money from that is viable.

There's probably copyrights and stuff with PDF. Otherwise PDF editors I'm sure would be more abundant. I know of no real ones that don't cost a decent amount of money. You're probably stuck paying for something like that, or change format.