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    • K
      krisleslie
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      Ah well I'll take one for from your playbook you gave me 🙂 consider possibly hosting Adobe Acrobat in RDS. I think I did about a year ago and worked fine from my Chromebook. Otherwise I hate Adobe's pricing. Even for me being a non profit they cap us off and still charge us premium rate for Acrobat. At best I'm able to get cost around $50-75 but with caveats, aka being forced to use the online service, not the actual desktop app.

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        krisleslie
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        I still have a version about 10 years old in the office!

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          krisleslie
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          As an suggestion also ignore using those free websites that convert them to word docs. Some actually do a great job. But some end up creating crap from their output. We tried that 2-3 years ago. Some folks (less than 3) still clamor on to that method, but in my office as much as possible I try to keep our data in a database which can export to word or pdf as necessary. I know I know different topic you want to open/edit them 🙂 not just view.

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          • scottalanmillerS
            scottalanmiller
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            We've got someone testing out LibreOffice Draw 6 now, to see how much of what they need it will do.

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              black3dynamite @scottalanmiller
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              @scottalanmiller said in PDF Editor Alternatives, Preferably Open Source:

              We've got someone testing out LibreOffice Draw 6 now, to see how much of what they need it will do.

              Its pretty slow for me when loading a pdf document with a lot of pages. And the text on some of the pages is not formatted correctly.

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                krisleslie
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                Scott it will work but your mileage will vary. There is more than one kind of PDF version so it really depends on the source of where you "pulling" the pdfs from. Are they PDF's they are getting from other companies (like marketing stuff) that they wanna pull data out of? Those are the worst usually.

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                • scottalanmillerS
                  scottalanmiller @krisleslie
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                  @krisleslie said in PDF Editor Alternatives, Preferably Open Source:

                  Scott it will work but your mileage will vary. There is more than one kind of PDF version so it really depends on the source of where you "pulling" the pdfs from. Are they PDF's they are getting from other companies (like marketing stuff) that they wanna pull data out of? Those are the worst usually.

                  I don't really have a good idea of what the use case is, yet.

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                  • FATeknollogeeF
                    FATeknollogee
                    last edited by FATeknollogee

                    I use Master PDF

                    It's a cross platform PDF editor for macOS, Windows and Linux.

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                      krisleslie @FATeknollogee
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                      @fateknollogee thank you sir!

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                      • stacksofplatesS
                        stacksofplates
                        last edited by

                        I’ve done it with Inkscape before. That’s not too bad.

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                        • scottalanmillerS
                          scottalanmiller @stacksofplates
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                          @stacksofplates said in PDF Editor Alternatives, Preferably Open Source:

                          I’ve done it with Inkscape before. That’s not too bad.

                          I noticed a lot of sites recommending that, as well.

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                            flaxking
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                            I've used pdftk and pdfsam for merging before.

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                            • dbeatoD
                              dbeato
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                              I recommend PDFElement as @JaredBusch noted and Pdf Architect. They both work well at a decent price. Foxit Reader allows you to comment PDF like a lot of other tools but those are my recommendations.

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                                dafyre @scottalanmiller
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                                @scottalanmiller said in PDF Editor Alternatives, Preferably Open Source:

                                @krisleslie said in PDF Editor Alternatives, Preferably Open Source:

                                I have a side question, is this for the legal industry or just general use?

                                General, it is sales people requesting it.

                                What is the possibility of using a converter to convert it to LibreOffice and then all future edits are done with LO... And just use the Export to PDF?

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                                • ObsolesceO
                                  Obsolesce @scottalanmiller
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                                  @scottalanmiller said in PDF Editor Alternatives, Preferably Open Source:

                                  @krisleslie said in PDF Editor Alternatives, Preferably Open Source:

                                  If you want to keep it simple, if you head over to ninite.com they have:
                                  Foxit Reader
                                  Alternative PDF Reader 9.0.1.1049
                                  LibreOffice
                                  Free Office Suite 6.0.2 (JRE recommended)
                                  SumatraPDF
                                  Lightweight PDF Reader 3.1.2
                                  CutePDF
                                  Print Documents as PDF Files 3.2
                                  PDFCreator
                                  Print Documents as PDF Files 3.1.2.10844
                                  OpenOffice

                                  Most of those are readers, though. Foxit, for example, to edit is $130.

                                  Yeah, but it works well and is cheaper than Adobe Pro. Foxit is our go to as well.

                                  I should mention there are some users who need Adobe Pro where Foxit doesn't work 100%. But the details I don't know there.

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                                  • scottalanmillerS
                                    scottalanmiller @Obsolesce
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                                    @tim_g said in PDF Editor Alternatives, Preferably Open Source:

                                    @scottalanmiller said in PDF Editor Alternatives, Preferably Open Source:

                                    @krisleslie said in PDF Editor Alternatives, Preferably Open Source:

                                    If you want to keep it simple, if you head over to ninite.com they have:
                                    Foxit Reader
                                    Alternative PDF Reader 9.0.1.1049
                                    LibreOffice
                                    Free Office Suite 6.0.2 (JRE recommended)
                                    SumatraPDF
                                    Lightweight PDF Reader 3.1.2
                                    CutePDF
                                    Print Documents as PDF Files 3.2
                                    PDFCreator
                                    Print Documents as PDF Files 3.1.2.10844
                                    OpenOffice

                                    Most of those are readers, though. Foxit, for example, to edit is $130.

                                    Yeah, but it works well and is cheaper than Adobe Pro. Foxit is our go to as well.

                                    I should mention there are some users who need Adobe Pro where Foxit doesn't work 100%. But the details I don't know there.

                                    Foxit is what we already had. Looking if saving money from that is viable.

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                                    • DustinB3403D
                                      DustinB3403 @scottalanmiller
                                      last edited by

                                      @scottalanmiller Any update from whoever is evaluating LibreOffice?

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                                      • ObsolesceO
                                        Obsolesce @scottalanmiller
                                        last edited by

                                        @scottalanmiller said in PDF Editor Alternatives, Preferably Open Source:

                                        @tim_g said in PDF Editor Alternatives, Preferably Open Source:

                                        @scottalanmiller said in PDF Editor Alternatives, Preferably Open Source:

                                        @krisleslie said in PDF Editor Alternatives, Preferably Open Source:

                                        If you want to keep it simple, if you head over to ninite.com they have:
                                        Foxit Reader
                                        Alternative PDF Reader 9.0.1.1049
                                        LibreOffice
                                        Free Office Suite 6.0.2 (JRE recommended)
                                        SumatraPDF
                                        Lightweight PDF Reader 3.1.2
                                        CutePDF
                                        Print Documents as PDF Files 3.2
                                        PDFCreator
                                        Print Documents as PDF Files 3.1.2.10844
                                        OpenOffice

                                        Most of those are readers, though. Foxit, for example, to edit is $130.

                                        Yeah, but it works well and is cheaper than Adobe Pro. Foxit is our go to as well.

                                        I should mention there are some users who need Adobe Pro where Foxit doesn't work 100%. But the details I don't know there.

                                        Foxit is what we already had. Looking if saving money from that is viable.

                                        There's probably copyrights and stuff with PDF. Otherwise PDF editors I'm sure would be more abundant. I know of no real ones that don't cost a decent amount of money. You're probably stuck paying for something like that, or change format.

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                                        • JaredBuschJ
                                          JaredBusch @scottalanmiller
                                          last edited by

                                          @scottalanmiller said in PDF Editor Alternatives, Preferably Open Source:

                                          @tim_g said in PDF Editor Alternatives, Preferably Open Source:

                                          @scottalanmiller said in PDF Editor Alternatives, Preferably Open Source:

                                          @krisleslie said in PDF Editor Alternatives, Preferably Open Source:

                                          If you want to keep it simple, if you head over to ninite.com they have:
                                          Foxit Reader
                                          Alternative PDF Reader 9.0.1.1049
                                          LibreOffice
                                          Free Office Suite 6.0.2 (JRE recommended)
                                          SumatraPDF
                                          Lightweight PDF Reader 3.1.2
                                          CutePDF
                                          Print Documents as PDF Files 3.2
                                          PDFCreator
                                          Print Documents as PDF Files 3.1.2.10844
                                          OpenOffice

                                          Most of those are readers, though. Foxit, for example, to edit is $130.

                                          Yeah, but it works well and is cheaper than Adobe Pro. Foxit is our go to as well.

                                          I should mention there are some users who need Adobe Pro where Foxit doesn't work 100%. But the details I don't know there.

                                          Foxit is what we already had. Looking if saving money from that is viable.

                                          PDFElement is $100, so it is a savings. But savings enough to retrain users? Maybe not.

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                                          • iroalI
                                            iroal
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                                            For editing only free alternative I've found is LibreOffice, but it quite limited.

                                            For merging I like pdf24, It works great.

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