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Adobe now requires you to purchase a subscription to rotate PDF pages

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Re: Adobe now requires you to purchase a subscription to rotate PDF pages

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Post by uniqueuid »

SllX wrote: post #5

For anyone on a Mac: all of these features in the screenshot are free with Preview. I assume OP is not, but something people should keep in mind.

Stuff people don't know about Preview.app:

- Paste images that were copied to the clipboard. Just open Preview and press CMD-N

- Split, re-arrange and merge PDF documents. Just drag pages into the sidebar

- Sign documents. Click the annotation button in the menu bar, sign either on touchpad, ipad or hold an ink signature on paper into the webcam.

- OCR (new with macOS ventura). Just click/drag/double-click on text in images.

What more did I forget?

Re: Adobe now requires you to purchase a subscription to rotate PDF pages

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Post by vladharbuz »

tyiz wrote: post #3

What is a good alternative. one that doesn’t look like it intern project?

On Linux: zathura, evince, okular for viewing. I don't know of a friendly GUI tool for editing PDFs, but combinations of imagemagick and tools such as pdfunite work well. A bit off-topic, but nomacs and imv are nice for images.

Re: Adobe now requires you to purchase a subscription to rotate PDF pages

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Post by sicp-enjoyer »

SllX wrote: post #5

For anyone on a Mac: all of these features in the screenshot are free with Preview. I assume OP is not, but something people should keep in mind.

Preview is the best tool for working with PDFs I have used. Just being able to cut pages and reorder them is strangely difficult for everything else.

Re: Adobe now requires you to purchase a subscription to rotate PDF pages

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Post by henriquecm8 »

tunapizza wrote: post #24
kukx wrote: post #10

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You can view PDF files in most Internet browsers.

I wish most browsers also allowed users to annotate, rotate, and manipulate PDFs. The solutions mentioned in this thread will work, though!

I just tested and Edge, you can annotate, highlight and draw over it, and it will save, but rotating it is temporary.

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Post by brk »

Etheryte wrote: post #27
SllX wrote: post #5

For anyone on a Mac: all of these features in the screenshot are free with Preview. I assume OP is not, but something people should keep in mind.

I wish this got talked about more, Preview is both crazy good and free. You can split PDFs apart, merge multiple different ones into one file, use password protected files, edit and annotate them, add your signature, and so much more. Best of all, it just works, all the time.

What is the trick to merging multiple PDFs into one? That never seems to work for me.

Re: Adobe now requires you to purchase a subscription to rotate PDF pages

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Post by DreadY2K »

xnx wrote: post #15

Protip: I only recently learned that LibreOffice is a pretty good PDF Editor. https://ask.libreoffice.org/t/how-do-i-edit-pdf-files-create...

In my experience, LibreOffice Draw usually messes up the formatting of any PDFs I open in it. Nothing entirely unsalvageable, but text gets slightly moved around and winds up overlapping other text in a way that's annoying for future readers of the document.
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