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PDF Editor (self.opensource)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by stylishboar to c/[email protected]

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Any recommendations for a PDF editor? I've been using LibreOffice Draw, but it doesn't seem to preserve all the formatting/positioning.

Edit: Some features I'm looking for:

The ability to highlight and/or redact text
The ability to add/remove pages
It would also be nice to be able add signatures.

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[–] pbmonster 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I'm using pdftk to add/remove pages, which works perfectly. Also does stuff like rotate some pages, ect. Easily scriptable, so stapling together all the PDFs in a dictionary is super easy.

For actual editing (removing text, adding complex things), I just use Inkscape. How well that works depends on the PDF itself.

And just highlighting text is something every single PDF viewer can do nowadays.

[–] stylishboar 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Oh, interesting. I could see how the pdftk CLI could be powerful. Do you know if the source code repository is actually public? I couldn’t find it.

[–] pbmonster 2 points 1 year ago

I don't think the repository itself is public. But pdftk is licenced under GPL2, and so PTFLabs has published the source code here.

I imagine you could contact PDFLabs directly if you wanted to contribute.