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Is there a free service which covers the same features as Adobe acrobat?
acrobat does a ton of stuff. there are lots of tools that do some of the things it can do, but I don't you're going to find something that's a complete replacement for free
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oh now I understand- thanks. ( I was wondering if you meant you created an account on your app for me :) )
I’d have read that just like you did. More context always helps. I guess another (lengthy) way to write that - can be - “I just created my HN account to post this comment”.
Machine translations for Finnish seem to be quite shoddy. The rotate tool is called ”A PDF is spinning” etc. Even the language name is wrong in the language selector.
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 love an alternative.
Surprisingly there's a few decent options on Android, but nothing worth while I could find for Windows or Linux.
Maybe someone here can help a guy out with a pointer?
"uses WebAssembly" - forgive me but what? How do I know my PDF isn't going to Russia? or China? I mean, I could wireshark it but I'd like to know more about what's in the webassembly. PDF's are sensitive to some organizations. As already stated, some orgs even block online pdf tools for obvious reasons. I'm interested in this but I would be even more so if there was source so I can audit. Since it's running locally i…
Big fan of the idea of offline in-browser tools: works on any device, and "installing" the program is as simple as visiting a webpage or opening the saved HTML file. This one uses WebAssembly, but even that isn't necessary: I wrote a couple of PDF tools for my own use that simply use pdf-lib: https://shreevatsa.net/pdf-pages/ https://shreevatsa.net/pdf-unspread/
Big fan of offline tools. I have a small collection of tools at https://www.webutils.app/ and have been meaning to add pdf tools for a while.
Can you please explain why? I care about privacy and security, and this trend seems like we're going backwards. If something needs network access, web apps make sense. But I liked offline tools better when we called them "programs". Web apps to me seem like they turn the web browser into an operating system. I already have an OS.
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…
"uses WebAssembly" - forgive me but what? How do I know my PDF isn't going to Russia? or China? I mean, I could wireshark it but I'd like to know more about what's in the webassembly. PDF's are sensitive to some organizations. As already stated, some orgs even block online pdf tools for obvious reasons. I'm interested in this but I would be even more so if there was source so I can audit. Since it's running locally i…
> going to Russia? or China? always ironic when ppl say this on websites hosted in the us, a country with the most documented cases of governmental organisation backdooring/spying :/