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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 wlesieutre »

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.

Been a while since I used it but IIRC you should be able to show the page thumbnails sidebar in each document and drag them from one window into another.

Probably also accessible via Preview’s Automator/Shortcuts actions if it’s something you need to do frequently.

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

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Post by SV_BubbleTime »

mirzap wrote: post #12
tyiz wrote: post #3

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

I use Foxit reader. It's free and cross platform with great UI.

Agreed.

I’m 80% at requiring it for anyone at the company that doesn’t need full acrobat to create PDFs. And even then I’m close to pushing the version of FoxIt that does that.

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

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Post by rahimnathwani »

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.

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

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Post by currency »

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.

Copy a selection of pages from an existing PDF, choose File > New from clipboard. From that point you can edit the pages in the PDF using the thumbnails sidebar and drag pages from other PDFs into the bar.

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

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Post by cydonian_monk »

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.

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

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Post by rahimnathwani »

tjoff wrote: post #48

Windows: Sumatra PDF. Linux: Zathura. These are so much better than Acrobat. Might not do everything you can imagine but they are excellent and a very good default.

Sumatra PDF is also, AFAIK, the best Epub reader for Windows.

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

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Post by plgonzalezrx8 »

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...

In my experience, every open source PDF Reader/Editor, is ATROCIOUS and messes up the formatting big time. I wish there was an alternative out there that was as good as adobe, but as with all of their other tools, the alternatives always leave much to be desired.

And then adobe takes advantage of that fact (Their product is second to none), and rail their customers by making their products expensive AF.

TLDR: Adobe products are AMAZING. Their pricing structure and marketing techniques and straight up disrespect to their customers is absolute garbage.

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

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Post by topicseed »

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.

And you can easily edit password-protected PDFs by "Printing" as PDF and edit the "print out" PDF.

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

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Post by NotYourLawyer »

tasty_freeze wrote: post #42

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.…

Same here but with 9.0. My only complaint is that it‘s a little wonky with a high DPI display.
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