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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 xnx »

rahimnathwani wrote: post #53
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...

This is not a pro tip. LibreOffice can import a PDF and export a PDF but, even with minimal changes, the PDF you get out won't necessarily have a similar binary representation or appearance to the original.

Most of the PDF editing I do is the equivalent to physically typing over, covering over, or cutting elements out of a print document. I would not expect a an editor to be able to (for example) reflow the layout of PDF.

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

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Post by debug-desperado »

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.

Had to uninstall Adobe Reader this week because it's become unbearably slow on my 2015 MacBook Pro. I'm talking it can't smooth scroll a 2-page resume PDF.

Preview does the trick just fine.

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

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Post by guelo »

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 very capable but it's UI is so opaque. After years of use I still discover features accidentally, almost like easter eggs.

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

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Post by mxuribe »

UFOFlyer wrote: post #20
tyiz wrote: post #3

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

Okular from KDE project, they have a windows release too.

I use okular and it works great on linux. Once in a while PDFs with forms display funny, or some minor challenges with data entry....but not sure if the issue is how the pdf was made or if okular. Nevertheless, i really like it. Plus as stated, a few KDE applications like okular happliy can be used on Windows. (For work machine, where i am forced to use Windows, i happily have used the Kate text editor.)

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

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Post by rahimnathwani »

xnx wrote: post #101
rahimnathwani wrote: post #53

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This is not a pro tip. LibreOffice can import a PDF and export a PDF but, even with minimal changes, the PDF you get out won't necessarily have a similar binary representation or appearance to the original.

Most of the PDF editing I do is the equivalent to physically typing over, covering over, or cutting elements out of a print document. I would not expect a an editor to be able to (for example) reflow the layout of PDF.

I just opened a PDF in LibreOffice, and immediately exported it to PDF, without making any changes.

I deliberately chose a PDF with very few images, simple formatting and very few fonts.

The output PDF differed materially from the original:

- not only was the font different, but the original fixed-width font had been replaced with a proportional font

- multiple lines that had consistent horizontal alignment in the original were now jagged

- numbers that were in a column are now no longer directly below each other

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

#108

Post by rado »

uniqueuid wrote: post #31
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…

Annotation. Colour correction including white balance picker. And so on

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

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Post by netsharc »

I wanted to combine a few PDFs into 1 big one, and I noticed adobe.com offers that for free (but it requires user registration). Now I just remembered that Gimp can open PDFs, and each page would be its own layer. Probablt good enough for some light editing.

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

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Post by cosmotic »

heavymark wrote: post #99
Etheryte wrote: post #27

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

Love Preview and for all those basics find it much easier than Adobe for rotating, rearranging, deleting, merging, etc. Alas for some things still need Acrobat. For forms that need to be filled in more often than not preview is problematic where the entered text doesn’t appear right or issues with drop-downs etc. Like how I prefer safari but still run into compatibility issues sometimes and need Chrome. Also Adobe is…

Preview does OCR now too, I think. I can select text in JPEGs, I presume it works on PDFs too.
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