The new ability to edit PDFs in @firefox makes my life a helluva lot easier.

  • @pdxfed
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    2411 months ago

    Didn’t know that was a thing. Built in or need a. Extension? What kind of editing is enabled(fill, sign, full edit…?) and how would you compare it to other solutions and online editors?

    • @[email protected]
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      4011 months ago

      It’s just filling forms, adding text, and drawing. It doesn’t have actual editing capabilities.

      • @Scolding7300
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        911 months ago

        What’s actual editing?

        A lot of my interaction with PDFs could be completed with filling oit forms/drawing

        • @[email protected]
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          2111 months ago

          Things like changing, moving, or deleting text and images, inserting or reordering pages, and editing the table of contents.
          There’s not many open source programs capable of doing that. Pdftk and LibreOffice Draw are probably the best options right now.

  • @TK420
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    1311 months ago

    Sweet, I have forms to fill out and will try it out!

    Filling in pdfs is annoying

  • @[email protected]
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    1111 months ago

    It amazes me there aren’t more pdf editors. Adobe basically said it’s freeware years ago.

  • @[email protected]
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    411 months ago

    There’s still the feature that allows you to print a PDF even if the print permission is denied?

  • @[email protected]
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    211 months ago

    Were you attempting to create a lemmy thread or just making a one-off mastodon post? Cause it got kind of popular.

  • @Robsadaisy
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    111 months ago

    I use Love PDF for most things but there’s a few online resources for editing PDFs that are good.