this post was submitted on 27 Jan 2024
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The new ability to edit PDFs in @firefox makes my life a helluva lot easier.

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[–] pdxfed@lemmy.world 26 points 10 months ago (1 children)

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?

[–] cmnybo@discuss.tchncs.de 42 points 10 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] Scolding7300@lemmy.world 10 points 10 months ago (1 children)

What's actual editing?

A lot of my interaction with PDFs could be completed with filling oit forms/drawing

[–] cmnybo@discuss.tchncs.de 23 points 10 months ago (1 children)

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@sh.itjust.works 5 points 10 months ago

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

[–] TK420@lemmy.world 13 points 10 months ago

Sweet, I have forms to fill out and will try it out!

Filling in pdfs is annoying

[–] WarmSoda@lemm.ee 13 points 10 months ago (2 children)

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

[–] Neato@ttrpg.network 19 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Really? Because they still charge for Acrobat.

[–] WarmSoda@lemm.ee 0 points 10 months ago

It's easy to find. Just look in thier wiki page for example

[–] Hadriscus@lemm.ee 3 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I use PDF x-change viewer, bit unintuitive but it can do everything

[–] hardaysknight@lemmy.world 3 points 10 months ago

It’s unironically my favorite windows app lol

[–] Moonrise2473@lemmy.ml 5 points 10 months ago

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

[–] Bitrot@lemmy.sdf.org 5 points 10 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] kurczynski@mastodon.social 4 points 10 months ago

@Bitrot I know, I thought I was the only one that was boring enough to be excited about PDF editing 😂

[–] Robsadaisy@lemmy.world 2 points 10 months ago

I use Love PDF for most things but there’s a few online resources for editing PDFs that are good.