cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/18656931

Coming over from windows again. I’ve got pretty much everything figured out. I even got a VM going with my CAD software so I don’t need to switch between Windows! I was super proud of myself on that one. The last thing I’m having trouble with…

I use pdfxchange for my PDF editor. It works great in wine but they don’t have a specific Linux release. (If there is a good PDF editor that is Linux native let me know, I need good Mark up and dimensioning tools that can scale off of the drawings). I’m trying to set it to open PDFs by default but can’t figure it out. Does someone have a good (easy) way to do it?

  • @fpslem
    2•3 months ago

    If there is a good PDF editor that is Linux native let me know

    You and me both, I don’t have a great solution for that yet. I’ve used Foxit for Linux before with decent results, but it doesn’t have full editing capabilities.

    This ubuntu forum conversation had several recommendations, including PDF Master if you’re willing to pay for it. (The free version has watermarks.)

    PDF is such a standard format now, I feel like there should be a better open-source PDF editor.