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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 SllX »

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…

> Paste images that were copied to the clipboard. Just open Preview and press CMD-N

This one is new to me. TIL. Thanks!

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

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Post by tasty_freeze »

I have an Acrobat Pro 7.0 license I paid for years and years ago. I have a single use case: I scan a lot of vintage computer manuals as a hobby. Pro offers fine control over compression options. Acrobat has been nagging me for more than a decade to register it (though I registered it when I bought it). A couple of times I've had computer crashes or migrations and getting 7.0 reinstalled on the new machine was a pain.

It galls me to think they want $500 for me to buy Pro again when I don't need or want any of the new features. I just want the existing functionality I paid for to continue working.

Do any of the alternatives have similar fine control of compression options that Acrobat Pro exposes? I'd switch in a heartbeat.

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

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Post by function_seven »

brk wrote: post #39
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.

What is the trick to merging multiple PDFs into one? That never seems to work for me.

I open them both, then select and drag the pages from one to the other. (Left side bar where the page thumbnails are shown)

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

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Post by dont__panic »

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…

You can remove white/back backgrounds from images as well, with the "Magic Lasso" selection tool. Adjust the selection level until it covers the object you want, cmd+c to copy that object out of the image, then cmd+n to create a new image from that selection.

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

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Post by yamtaddle »

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.

You can also use Preview to carve up PDFs and assemble new documents from the pages of multiple other PDFs. This is really handy for making e.g. custom bestiaries for RPGs, using pages from official books, since usually you use only a few beasts in a campaign, out of a set of potentially hundreds of first- and third-party ready-to-use beasts. Nice to have them all in one PDF, with nothing you don't need. And of course you can pdf-export whatever you like from your own documents and mix that in, too.

For some reason I've never bothered to figure out, I do sometimes have to copy a PDF before it'll let me re-arrange or copy/cut individual pages out of it. But not always. I assume it's because of some kind of flag on downloaded files in macOS, but IDK.

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

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Post by riedel »

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.

For anyone else I recommend pdf arranger [1]

[1] https://github.com/pdfarranger/pdfarranger

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

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Post by dagmx »

brk wrote: post #39
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.

What is the trick to merging multiple PDFs into one? That never seems to work for me.

Either drag between Preview windows or a simple copy paste works for me.

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

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Post by yamtaddle »

function_seven wrote: post #43
brk wrote: post #39

Earlier quoted context omitted.

What is the trick to merging multiple PDFs into one? That never seems to work for me.

I open them both, then select and drag the pages from one to the other. (Left side bar where the page thumbnails are shown)

As I just posted elsewhere, I do find I sometimes have to copy a PDF before it'll let me do this to it. I assume it's some kind of flag that isn't preserved through the copy and there's actually a better way to fix it, but my work-around is simple enough that I've never bothered to figure out what it is.

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

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Post by kevinconroy »

brk wrote: post #39
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.

What is the trick to merging multiple PDFs into one? That never seems to work for me.

Open up two docs in preview. Let's say Doc A is the one you want to merge into. Open Thumbnail view in each doc. Select pages in Doc B you want to merge over to Doc A (some or all). Drag and drop into thumbnails view in Doc A. Reorder as desired. Profit.

Copy + paste also works.

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