Depend on proprietary standards--win stupid prizes.
Same old, same old.
Adobe now requires you to purchase a subscription to rotate PDF pages
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#122What is a good alternative. one that doesn’t look like it intern project?
PDF viewing: Chrome PDF editing: LibreOffice
In chrome://flags you can search for "PDF" and enable the following: Performs OCR on inaccessible PDFs, PDF XFA support, Accessible PDF Forms, Enable Region Search on PDF viewer.
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#123Earlier 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.
Preview is great. I can also recommend Skim (free and open source) for macOS for some additional functionality [1]. [1]: https://skim-app.sourceforge.io/
Also Sumatra on Windows.
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#124For 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.
And for those on Windows and Linux, a somewhat close alternative for Preview is Okular - https://okular.kde.org/en-gb/.
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#125For 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.
I had to download Acrobat for something (I don’t recall what) on my work computer, and it set itself as a default, and for the past few weeks whenever i open a PDF I’m wondering why it’s taking forrreeevvverr. Then I remember it’s Adobe and not Preview.
I need to uninstall it but I keep forgetting. This is a good remembrance
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#126For 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.
And guess who developed CUPS? :)
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#127Re: Adobe now requires you to purchase a subscription to rotate PDF pages
#128pdfjam on Linux can do it for free. As can Mac.
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#129I no longer use Acrobat on Android since an upgrade required permissions to delete any PDF from my phone. No way San Jose!
What do you recommend on Android? I've been using the Dropbox viewer, but a standalone viewer would be handy.
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#130I remember learning PostScript (~1993?) by reading the Red Book, and thinking how awesome it was that this company Adobe, which I'd never heard of, had created a new programming language just to solve once and for all the problem of specifying vector graphics to a printer, and had written such a nice book to help others use the language. It was magical to be able to write a text file in emacs, send it to the printer,…
Did you ever look in detail at Common Ground? IIRC, it was not only an Adobe PDF alternative, but the format was considerably more modern and powerful. Sadly, it seems like it lost just because PDF was similar to PostScript, a fact that never really made any real difference to anyone but programmers writing PDF parsers. (And PostScript smelled like the future, since Display PostScript was the basis for displays (well, kinda) at NeXT and Sun, and those were definitely the cool kids...