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      scottalanmiller @krisleslie
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      @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.

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        FATeknollogee
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        I use Master PDF

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

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          krisleslie @FATeknollogee
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          @fateknollogee thank you sir!

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

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              scottalanmiller @stacksofplates
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              @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.

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                flaxking
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                I've used pdftk and pdfsam for merging before.

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                  dbeato
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                  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.

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                    dafyre @scottalanmiller
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                    @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?

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                      Obsolesce @scottalanmiller
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                      @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.

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                        scottalanmiller @Obsolesce
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                        @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.

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                          DustinB3403 @scottalanmiller
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                          @scottalanmiller Any update from whoever is evaluating LibreOffice?

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                            Obsolesce @scottalanmiller
                            last edited by

                            @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.

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                              JaredBusch @scottalanmiller
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                              @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.

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

                                For merging I like pdf24, It works great.

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                                  momurda @Obsolesce
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                                  @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.

                                  It is an open standard.

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                                    scottalanmiller
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                                    Person testing just said that LibreOffice Draw appears to work for them!

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                                      DustinB3403
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                                      @scottalanmiller sweeeeet!

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

                                        Person testing just said that LibreOffice Draw appears to work for them!

                                        LibreOffice Draw is great. I didn't think of using that to make PDFs.... I've only used it to make charts, maps, and diagrams.

                                        But I just did a quick search and found this:
                                        https://www.maketecheasier.com/create-a-pdf-with-fillable-forms-in-libreoffice/

                                        So awesome!

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                                          scottalanmiller @DustinB3403
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                                          @dustinb3403 said in PDF Editor Alternatives, Preferably Open Source:

                                          @scottalanmiller sweeeeet!

                                          Yeah, this is a huge win.

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

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

                                            Person testing just said that LibreOffice Draw appears to work for them!

                                            LibreOffice Draw is great. I didn't think of using that to make PDFs.... I've only used it to make charts, maps, and diagrams.

                                            But I just did a quick search and found this:
                                            https://www.maketecheasier.com/create-a-pdf-with-fillable-forms-in-libreoffice/

                                            So awesome!

                                            All parts of LibreOffice can create a PDF natively.

                                            I thought the criteria was to edit an existing PDF.

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