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

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Post by jbverschoor »

YVoyiatzis wrote: post #69
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.

Agreed, but the inability of Preview to edit text must be noted.

PDF is meant as an output format.

Fonts might or might not be embedded.

Paragraphs might be split into chunks, words, characters or simply outlines.

There’s no typesetting config. Nothing about margins, spacing, hyphenation, etc.

But then again, sometimes there is. The point is that it’s an output format.

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

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Post by spoils19 »

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.

> This is not a pro tip.

I think there's also the implication of 'pro', as if the rest of HN are not software professionals. I'd suggest GP to revise the structure of their comment in order to not offend the entire forum.

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

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Post by skrowl »

jbverschoor wrote: post #111
YVoyiatzis wrote: post #69

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Agreed, but the inability of Preview to edit text must be noted.

PDF is meant as an output format. Fonts might or might not be embedded. Paragraphs might be split into chunks, words, characters or simply outlines. There’s no typesetting config. Nothing about margins, spacing, hyphenation, etc. But then again, sometimes there is. The point is that it’s an output format.

FoxIt PDF (and others) edit PDF perfectly.

Even Word, LibreOffice, InkScape, etc do to a certain extent.

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

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Post by jbverschoor »

skrowl wrote: post #114
jbverschoor wrote: post #111

Earlier quoted context omitted.

PDF is meant as an output format. Fonts might or might not be embedded. Paragraphs might be split into chunks, words, characters or simply outlines. There’s no typesetting config. Nothing about margins, spacing, hyphenation, etc. But then again, sometimes there is. The point is that it’s an output format.

FoxIt PDF (and others) edit PDF perfectly. Even Word, LibreOffice, InkScape, etc do to a certain extent.

That’s like editing a printed version of a website :-)

I’ll work to a certain extent. Not sure how line breaks would work, but PDF is an extensible format, so these days they might include enough info to edit that

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

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Post by kcartlidge »

cydonian_monk wrote: post #55
nabaraz wrote: post #29

I have been actively moving away from Adobe products. Recently purchased Affinity Photo to replace photoshop and I use Preview (on Mac) for all pdf work.

The Affinity products on Mac are some of the cleanest, polished, reasonably easy to use, responsive, and stable pieces of commercial image software I've used in years. Very impressed with what they've done so far.

They also have a good offer on at the moment. They’ve released V2 and are offering all 3 apps on all supported formats for a single payment. Personally I only use Designer so didn’t partake, but even that is discounted a little.

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

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Post by aendruk »

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.

It’s better than free: already paid for.

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

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Post by t0bia_s »

323 wrote: post #90
mavu wrote: post #38

2028: Adobe requires additional fees to display vowels.

2030: PDF viewer takes 1 minute to start, unless you subscribe to the "start in 3 seconds deluxe option".

2032: AI constantly check yor workspace. In case of politically incorrect content you wouldnt be able to export.
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