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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.

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 8 months ago (8 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 8 months ago (7 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago (2 children)

I can import and export multi-page PDFs into inkskape just fine. No need to do each page individually.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago (1 children)

I can only import multipage PDFs in 1.3.2. Export produces a bunch of single-page PDF files. What version do you use?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago

My version also seems to be 1.3.2. When I select (*.pdf) from the export panel, it lets me select all the pages at once, which results in a single PDF.

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