So…yeah, I know about the ragebait. So…my gf is testing the waters with Linux, moving away from Mac. I have a cute Chuwi Minibook X laptop in which I installed KDE Neon for her, with a bit of a Mac theming. Could have chosen ElementaryOS, but ah well.
At any rate, her pain point is ADobe Acrobat, which she uses constantly to edit PDF files in all sort of ways, adding pictures, cutting/pasting parts on other PDFs, modifying paragraphs and changing the arrangements and so on… I’m having a bit of trouble making it run on Wine/Lutris/Bottles, and I’d like to know if there’s any other alternative that could cover some PDF editing properly in Linux. Any suggestions?
To everyone in the thread going “ugghhhh this isn’t what PDF is intended for!!!1!!1!!!”
Please stop. We know. We all know. It’s irrelevant to this conversation.
In an ideal world, PDF would be an output only format. Meanwhile, I have to manually apply text to PDFs and paste my signature as an image to file both my Canadian and Quebec taxes. Reality doesn’t care about technical perfection and is run by a bunch of senile luddites.
A PDF editor is basically a requirement for anyone who files their own taxes here, and it’s a requirement for many, many industries, where they may need to doctor a document whose source is long gone to the winds of time.
To answer your question:
GNOME’s papers now supports basic file editing, but no image pasting, which may be required for “”“signing”“” documents (how is this even legally binding? anyway).