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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 alwillis »

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.

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/

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

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Post by an1sotropy »

I 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, and have cool images come out.

Good old days.

btw PDF started as Project Camelot at Adobe in ~1990, as a way to capture the results of executing a PostScript program [1]. I'm curious if there is still that kind of foundational innovation happening at Adobe, and if not, why it died?

[1] https://blog.adobe.com/en/2018/06/14/evolution-digital-docum...

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Post by jahewson »

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 is uses the MuPDF library which is excellent. Zathura however uses Poppler which is lacklustre.

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

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Post by tjoff »

jahewson wrote: post #73
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 is uses the MuPDF library which is excellent. Zathura however uses Poppler which is lacklustre.

There is a MuPDF plugin for zathura that at least some distros seems to use by default.

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Post by qubex »

marban wrote: post #23
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.

Preview.app — Underrated since 2001.

I distinctly remember a precursor of some sort being available on NeXTStep 3.0 in ‘95 or thereabouts.
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