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good pdf editor?

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heartlessevil@lemmy.one
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crow@beehaw.org
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Why is that? It’s not like PDF’s are new. If it’s licensing are there non-legal PDF editors that work well?

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lemmyvore@feddit.nl
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Wasn’t PDF supposed to be a read-only, print-only medium? You’re supposed to edit the source material (like a doc) and export that to PDF, not edit PDF directly.

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heartlessevil@lemmy.one
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Well, there’s Acrobat. I think that the issue is that PDF is a deceptively complicated format. It’s basically a programming language for describing pages to print. So it’s not like parsing a JPG or something, you need a PDF interpreter. And I imagine the Adobe one is encumbered.

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hstde@feddit.de
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Probably the same reason it takes so long to come up with third party flash interpreters.

I mean flash isn’t exactly new, but for the longest time there was only Adobe flash.

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kelvinjps@beehaw.orgOP
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I wonder the same, something od adobe? it’s the only one that works.

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kelvinjps@beehaw.orgOP
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yeah I know I tried some of them.

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