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.
That works if you have access to the source material, which you don’t often get. Most of the time it will suffice to just draw over it using Xournal++ or simmilar, but there is always that odd case where you need to change what is already in the PDF
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.
https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/PDF,_PS_and_DjVu#Graphical_PDF_editing
None of them are very good tbh
Why is that? It’s not like PDF’s are new. If it’s licensing are there non-legal PDF editors that work well?
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.
That works if you have access to the source material, which you don’t often get. Most of the time it will suffice to just draw over it using Xournal++ or simmilar, but there is always that odd case where you need to change what is already in the PDF
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.
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.
I wonder the same, something od adobe? it’s the only one that works.
yeah I know I tried some of them.