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PDF Tool – Modify PDFs in the browser without uploading

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Re: PDF Tool – Modify PDFs in the browser without uploading

#141

Does anyone know a decent open source tool to edit PDF form fields (create them, assign a name, ...)?

Or even fill the forms of the existing PDFs... I'm struggling with many PDF forms, usually from various government agencies. They all seem to require Adobe Reader and can't open them anywhere else. And the few that I can open and input the values have broken field calculation (for example they won't add values from field A and B into field C).

Re: PDF Tool – Modify PDFs in the browser without uploading

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post #90

Still not trustworthy. Works as advertised. Gains trust Changes app Steals data And I doubt that everybody always disables the internet connection while they use the app.

valid point, but this is not our intention. hold us accountable - shame us directly and reference this comment. sincerly, simon

Honest question: how are you monetizing? I don’t see a single ad on the website, but I have not tried to use it to edit any document. Are they being injected at the time of edit?

Re: PDF Tool – Modify PDFs in the browser without uploading

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post #134

Semi related: I have been looking far and wide for a tool that replicates Acrobat's /fill and sign/ feature, allowing me to fill out NON-form-fillable PDFs. Something where I can fill it out, save, and then open up later to edit and add/remove previous additions. Adobe as a business, their pushiness about creating an account and the fact that they bundle McAfee's shitware with Acrobat never sat well with me, so I'd l…

I've used LibreOffice Draw for this with fairly good results just inserting text boxes on top of the necessary fields. It's not the fastest, and probably is a bit overkill for the job, but it does work!

Re: PDF Tool – Modify PDFs in the browser without uploading

#144

Does anyone know of a good way to tile large PDFs (i.e. split a single PDF into smaller pages)? Adobe reader only allows you to do this when printing and you can't save the tiled PDF as its own file.

Some time ago I had success with https://github.com/rrthomas/pdfjam for that purpose under Linux. It used to be included in the standard Debian repositories but that no longer seems to be the case which might mean it is an unmaintained project that has build issues. Worth trying though, if it builds on a modern system. It might also be worth trying if the PDF reader in a Chrome/Chromium can use its “pages per sheet”…

on arch it comes with extra/texlive-binextra

Re: PDF Tool – Modify PDFs in the browser without uploading

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post #134

Semi related: I have been looking far and wide for a tool that replicates Acrobat's /fill and sign/ feature, allowing me to fill out NON-form-fillable PDFs. Something where I can fill it out, save, and then open up later to edit and add/remove previous additions. Adobe as a business, their pushiness about creating an account and the fact that they bundle McAfee's shitware with Acrobat never sat well with me, so I'd l…

I’ve found Inkscape to work very well for editing most PDFs in any way I’ve wanted to so far. If you just want to add or alter text the interface is reasonably simple while retaining the power to change mostly anything in the document, and in my experience it’s well supported and easy to set up on Linux, Windows, and Mac.

Re: PDF Tool – Modify PDFs in the browser without uploading

#146

Does anyone know a decent open source tool to edit PDF form fields (create them, assign a name, ...)?

Or even fill the forms of the existing PDFs... I'm struggling with many PDF forms, usually from various government agencies. They all seem to require Adobe Reader and can't open them anywhere else. And the few that I can open and input the values have broken field calculation (for example they won't add values from field A and B into field C).

There also seems to be two ways to fill a field. I notice this when I fill fields on a PDF in Chrome and save it. And then open it in Preview.

Preview doesn't show the values I put into the fields in Chrome.

Also kinda unrelated but also worth mentioning, if you have a PDF document with a version less than 1.7, opening and reexporting or even reprinting it in Preview.app as PDF will not actually manage to get you a document that's PDF1.7 or above.

I had to use postscript to do it.

Re: PDF Tool – Modify PDFs in the browser without uploading

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post #134

Semi related: I have been looking far and wide for a tool that replicates Acrobat's /fill and sign/ feature, allowing me to fill out NON-form-fillable PDFs. Something where I can fill it out, save, and then open up later to edit and add/remove previous additions. Adobe as a business, their pushiness about creating an account and the fact that they bundle McAfee's shitware with Acrobat never sat well with me, so I'd l…

I use https://www.ilovepdf.com/ . They have a ton of tools. Their Sign PDF includes the ability to add text, dates, a signature from a PNG, etc. I am not affiliated with or have any relationship with them other than as a happy user.

Re: PDF Tool – Modify PDFs in the browser without uploading

#148
post #103

For Mac users, most of these things can be done in the default Preview.app

In the most unintuitive ways possible.

Right, you'd think for a company that is all about intuitive UI/UX they would invest more in apps that come installed on all of their computers :/

Re: PDF Tool – Modify PDFs in the browser without uploading

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post #5

> We modify your PDF files in your browser, no upload required. I can do all of this offline for free already with Acrobat or Preview.app on macOS. > We try to make up some of the cost that we pay for hosting this service by employing a small amount of ads on our website. Why?

The question of why they would use ads is answered literally in the statement about it. You can disagree with it, but it is already explained and isn't a surprising answer.
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