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Help with...Adobe Acrobat DC Pro (lemmy.world)
submitted 2 months ago by to c/linux@lemmy.ml
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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?

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[–] 2 points 2 months ago

Same situation here. For heavier editing I now use local Stirling PDF and BentoPDF. As I say above, both run in docker, but Stirling PDF also comes as Appimage. They are powerful but don't feel like integrated applications.

But there is a surprising gap in Linux for PDF editing. Available tools are like toys for the task or geared towards techies. I would expect a PDF reader/editor to be a separate application in the LibreOffice suite. (No, Draw or Inkscape won't cut it, sorry)

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