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05:14 Manual Signature of a PDF
06:47 Digitally Signing a PDF
08:49 Optical Character Recognition of a PDF
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How to edit a PDF document:
One tool that is probably already on your Linux desktop is LibreOffice Draw. It can open PDF documents, and edit them, as long as it's not an image.
If you're familiar with vector drawing programs, then Inkscape can also edit PDF documents. For more robust solutions, you have proprietary commercial solutions, including PDF Studio, Master PDF, Foxit PDF Editor, or WPS Office, but you'll have to pay for them.
How to manually sign a PDF:
Okular can actually do that. You can use the manual drawing tool to write your signature, or you can add the ability to paste an image on top of a document, but it's convoluted. You have to go to settings, toolbars shown, enable the quick annotations toolbar, then click the "configure button", click "Add", select the type "Stamp", and click the little button next to the "stamp symbol" field, to pick your own hand drawn signature that you previously saved as an image. Afterwards, you can just add that to any document in one click from that quick annotations toolbar.
You can also open the PDF document in LibreOffice Draw or the GIMP, and add your image signature this way.
How to digitally sign a PDF:
The easiest way is to use LibreOffice. Open the LibreOffice suite, click File, then digital signatures, and then "sign existing PDF", then the "sign document" button at the top. It will list all the available existing signatures and certificates you have installed on your device, and you can pick the one you want.
By default, LibreOffice will look into Mozilla Firefox's certificates list, so you'll have to put your certificate file there. To do so, open FIrefox, then the main menu, Preferences, Privacy and Security, and then "View Certificates". Then click on "authorities" and "Import", and then the "OK" button, and you're done.
Optical Character Recognition (OCR)!
A simple option is GImageReader, an open source app that will let you import a document or image, and will recognize all the text inside, in a very large variety of languages. It can take a while to do its thing, but it works reliably, and it was able to extract text from scanned PDFs and images like a PNG.
If you prefer doing these tasks from the command line, then you have Tesseract OCR, which is actually what GImageReader uses in the background.
How to annotate a PDF:
Your best option is probably Xournal++. It lets you open PDF documents, and draw all over them. You can highlight text, add hand drawn notes, shapes, type some text. It can even handle equations and graphs, and has a very customizable interface.
How to modify pages, split and merge PDF documents:
If all you need is modifying the pages in a PDF document, like reordering them, or deleting them, then you have PDF Arranger, a simple GNOME app that will run on any Linux desktop, and is available on Flathub.

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@TheLinuxEXP Год назад

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@Yukatoshi Год назад

Just to say I appreciate you keep your sponsors on point. No moronic Raid/Ridgewallet/etc stupidity.

@gfreark Год назад

Are you planning to also post on Rumble?

@duckrinium Год назад

I'm actually in searching of VNC, how great!

@gnuplusmatt Год назад

Looks like a cool, product but they aren't supporting Wayland yet

@CerealforProtein Год назад

Any chance for a video on Open Source document scanners apps?

@Blueeeeeee Год назад

As a side note, Firefox has some basic PDF editing capabilities, this may be enough for most people.

@AlanCristoffer Год назад

Yeah, but it is producing wrong fields which gets broken in other viewers. The text truncates and entire lines disappear.

@sawwwru Год назад

Didn't Microsoft Edge had that over years ago?

@z0rden_ Год назад

firefox became old because the rise of chromium for me brave + libreoffice will be enough

@rimaq_ Год назад

@@z0rden_brave's trash

@sifatullah246 Год назад

@@sawwwru Yeah but Linux users (not everyone though) have an allergy to Microsoft & it's products no matter how good it is.

@j2sk Год назад

I cant stress enough how this is one of the most important things to know when using linux

@meeponinthbit3466 Год назад

Right? Adobe's stranglehold on PDFs is a killer. They've patented the hell out of every feature possible which kills open source projects.

@technomatic6285 Год назад

@@meeponinthbit3466 Wait, they've patented editing PDFs? Then how come Master PDF and the likes able to deliver a similar experience to Adobe Acrobat Pro DC?

@meeponinthbit3466 Год назад

@@technomatic6285 oh yeah.... They patent every software feature, function, and the like they can think of, regardless how trivial it might seem to anybody in IT. Then they sue into oblivion anybody who violates their patents. Anybody making a decent product is probably paying licensing fees to him which is why you don't see any good free programs... If you do they're probably just so far under the radar Adobe hasn't found him yet. With PDFs being as old as they are a lot of them are expired at this point, but their lawyers know clever ways to upgrade and provide enhancements that basically renew things without providing any new real tech. The patents don't need to be good, they just need to be strong enough to scare somebody away who has enough money to actually go up against them?

@whiskeyshots Год назад

Awesome video, Nick. It shouldn't be so hard to work with PDFs, yet here we are. Thanks for helping us find good tools for working with them.

@Dosenwerfer Год назад

We shouldn't have to work with PDFs at all. Result of horribly failed digitalization.

@shadushio9682 Год назад

I'm a Windows user who is dabling in Linux through Mint on an old laptop. Your videos have been an excellent resource. So thank you. If all of the games out there ran on Linux, I would probably use it as my main desktop. Alas, it is not so.

@TheLinuxEXP Год назад

Glad you like the videos! Linux has come a long way for gaming, but it’s not perfect yet

@nosotrosloslobosestamosreg4115 Год назад

With the crazy requirements for W11 and the incoming W12, this will be the Linux Year, for sure (yes, preching the end is nigh)

@kychemclass5850 Год назад

@@happygofishing Perhaps best to learn/phase to linux before that. There will be some Linux "personality" issues that are best encountered early to build up a repertoire of work-arounds and/or accommodations. An instant switch /may/ induce frustrations that would prematurely have you return to window$. Best wishes no matter what path you take.

@bluesillybeard Год назад

@@happygofishing Like kychemclass5850 said, get familiar with it at least a month before switching completely, or else you in in for an entire world of frustration and confusion. I suggest dual booting, or setting up a VM, or installing Linux on an old backup computer, etc. Some way to try out and get used to it while still having Windows available as a plan B.

@sifatullah246 Год назад

I really love this type of content of yours because one, its really helpful for not only beginners who don't know what applications to use to accomplish certain tasks in Linux, and two, the effort you put in to research, use and test those applications is really amazing 💓

@TheLinuxEXP Год назад

Glad you liked the video, thanks for the kind words!

@parkerd-qp6pn Год назад

I don't know about the effort, but the finished product is the best I have seen yet.

@scpatl4now Год назад

I created my signature in inkscape. I signed a piece of white paper and photographed it. Then I turned it into a vector graphic in inkscape. You only have to do it once and it will work for almost any form. Vector graphics can be made any size without degrading.

@Dosenwerfer Год назад

There is so much wrong with this. Our world fucked up badly.

@scpatl4now Год назад

@@Dosenwerfer yeah, but we all gotta live in it somehow...make do where ya can.

@tmaes100 Год назад

I work a lot with pdf on linux and your suggestions are good: - pdf arranger is powerful and xournal++ too although the menus organisation is a nightmare - but both should permit to compress the result the best tool I found to compress is edited by itsfoss and called PDF-Compressor but the ergonomy is poor. The top would be a tool with an output file size parameter. Thank you for this great lesson over the certificates.

@zionpsyfer Год назад

+1 for Xournal++

@ForcefighterX2 Год назад

xournal is the only pdf editor for linux which actually behaves like one

@MrMediator24 Год назад

A bit surprised that Scribus wasn't mentioned as PDF editor, not just for creating them. Used it in this role a few times during uni

@TheBigBazzy Год назад

I find Master PDF to be the best PDF viewer and editor on Linux. I bought it for one year and was very happy with it. Formatting was perfect and it even opened government of Canada documents that specifically said they require Adobe Acrobat. No other program could open them. Master PDF is the winner for me.

@jasonsdodd Год назад

I use version 4 which I downloaded for free. Works great for everything I'd needed to do.

@IamTheHolypumpkin Год назад

Just about a month ago, I found out that Okular can open and display markdown files too. As someone who writes basically everything in markdown (or LaTeX), I make use of Okulars markdown capabilities all the time. Who needs a office suite if you have a Texteditor and markdowns am I right 😅.

@bacalaoporto Год назад

Sejda PDF (desktop or online) is a great tool. The free version limits the number of files you could work on per day, but the wide range of functionality is there...

@PremierPrep Год назад

I use Sejda constantly! Love it. I actually paid for the upgraded version

@jesuisjamaiscontent Год назад

Hi Nick, as a longtime Master PDF user I must orrect your comment about a one time payment. In reality the payment covers application updates for 1 year only, however by going into settings the user can turn off update searches. This is useful because if you update having just passed your years subscription you'll need to pay for a further year. Having said that I find Master PDF to be an excellent tool and recommend it.

@TheLinuxEXP Год назад

Thanks for the precision!

@jesuisjamaiscontent Год назад

@@TheLinuxEXP Thank you for your videos; they are well presented and informative. This morning Master PDF issued an update to their application, which talks of some useful changes and additional tools.

@michaelwright2986 Год назад

There is the possibility of using the free version of an outdated Master PDF (4.x). I don't know how kosher it is, but it's only using a free version they put out so I guess it's ok. If one does a search on MASTER PDF Free, the first item is what you want.

@jesuisjamaiscontent Год назад

@@michaelwright2986 I've seen lot of those offering but have yet to find one that works. Just tried one - master-pdf-editor-4.3.89_qt5.amd64 - and sure enough it opened showing "Not Registered", which means limited functions and watermarking. (Note that by opening a watermarked file in a registered copy one can easily remove the watermarks). Actually, for the price I'd recommend it. The developers at code-industry have done a good job and provide good support, so let's support them.

@michaelwright2986 Год назад

@@jesuisjamaiscontent I agree about paying for it, and I must do that. But the version I'm using shows 4.3.89 "Not Registered. Free for non-commercial use," so I guess I'm not using it beyond their intentions, and I have not had any problems with watermarks. My use is fairly niche: I take PDFs of out-of-copyright books (mostly Latin texts) and chop them up into sections for use in on-line reading groups: definitely non-commercial use, but other people's mileage might vary considerably. I downloaded it from the Code Industry site, though it's not linked on the landing page.

@jimmyrichards5595 Год назад

Thanks!

@video-rgb-es Год назад

For rearranging PDFs, change metadata (data of creation, for example), rotate pages, merge or split documents, etc., you also have PDF Mix Tool. And of course, for the command line enthusiasts there is also PDFtk.

@JaumeSabater Год назад

In Spain digital signatures are a must if you are a company and optional for citizens. Once you're set up, no matter how difficult it were, you realise how convenient digital signatures are and often people stick to them. The Spanish Government keeps Autofirma as a multiplatform, Java-bassed signing application, but no editing tools are included. PDF is the de facto standard, as you guessed.

@Kyller3030 Год назад

I took a lot of notes from the comments in the last PDF video, thanks for making this video to organize all the info.

@only1gameguru Год назад

This is one of my favorite types of videos. I watch it and go I need to save this for when I'm trying to edit pdf's in the future.

@zionpsyfer Год назад

Very thorough rundown and it is very much appreciated. Thanks Nick!

@nitemanify Год назад

I've used Foxit Phantom for many years on windows. Bought it before it was a subscription model it is works great. I'll have to look into it for linux now.

@SingasongAoC Год назад

Hey - somebody did his signing homework! As mentioned below - the most easy and usually not too bad viewer is your webbrowser. What I heared is that edge (uuuh) does a pretty good job here. The remaining issues like cluttered layout after import to tool XY is not a Linux specific problem. One has to deal with the same mess on Windows or MacOS. Usually the PDF source is the problem here. Text often is positioned letter by letter or even converted to curves. It all comes down to the engine used for creating the pdf file. At least the aera of full page bitmaps seems to be over. And if you want to extract Text from the PDF - the command line and poppler pdf2text is your best friend!

@jjdawg9918 Год назад

Thanks Nick! This is incredibly useful. I'm swimming in PDFs and being able to manage them is a necessity.

@TheClembo Год назад

Thank you as always fantastic research on your behalf [and mine too!] has paid off. You answered many if not all my questions I didn't even know I needed to ask! Cheers ATB

@jhirschma Год назад

I think it would have been helpful to focus on any proprietary tools for Linux, too. I'm a big fan of PDF Studio from Qoppa software - the UI is a bit clunky, but it Just Works. It covers almost every use case in the video in one app. Proprietary and paid software - but I think that we shouldn't expect all of our tools to be free, and there are benefits to showing that Linux users will pay for value.

@murraydawson8407 Год назад

Totally agree with your comments - I have that software too and it works really well

@IrisNebula7023 Год назад

Shouldn't expect all tools to be free (money wise), I agree. But proprietary is what it is, and it's perfectly reasonable to want to avoid them. The tools I've been the most happy to pay for have always been open-source. Games are the only kind of software I'm willing to pay for without being open-source, because they are not critical for anything else than my entertainment.

@kasparbaktat964 Год назад

Very helpful video! Thank you for your research! Some of the presented tool I use on a regular basis, but now I know options for almost any use case!

@RybieRy Год назад

Thank you! PDFs in linux are a pain so this is a really cool resource

@TheLinuxEXP Год назад

Thanks, glad it can be useful!

@michaelwright2986 Год назад

I agree this is video is a great help with PDFs. The format is indeed a great pain, and that's no accident: it's Adobe's mission in life to make useful stuff that is a pain if you step outside their system. I suppose that's what being proprietary means, so maybe we need an alternative to the PDF format? Well, I can dream.

@PhilipCrichton Год назад

LibreDraw (LD) is a good tool. The biggest issue is, if you do not have the fonts installed on the system that are used in the PDF document, it can throw off the formatting (as alluded to in the OP). Documents created in Mac are the biggest headache because they often use mountains of bizarre unuseual fonts in a single document. As mentioned in the OP, paragraphs are presented as single lines, which is how PDF renders documents. Witih LD, you can select multiple lines and merge them into a single paragraph (text box). If you have the document fonts installed, you're golden, otherwise be prepared to do some tweeking.

@raphaelkyembe4407 Год назад

We are lucky to have you in the Linux realm.

@TheLinuxEXP Год назад

Thank you!

@parkerd-qp6pn Год назад

Best software video I have seen yet! Exceptionally well done.

@alexk4894 Год назад

Digital signing by adding a picture with a signature makes me smile every time :) Maybe there are people who lock their houses by putting a picture of a lock

@Watchandlearn91 Год назад

I use macs for laptops and Linux on the desktop and any time i've had to mess with PDFs, i've always just used my macbook. Preview is one of those included mac apps that is really nice and AFAIK, nothing like that is included out of the box on Windows either (although tbh, I haven't used Windows in a while thank goodness).

@AschKris Год назад

In Costa Rica, digitally signing documents with a certificate is something that you do need to do rather often, but thankfully there are tools to do that easily on Linux. I think they are adapted to our laws so I don't know if they would work on other countries that use digital signatures.

@Aditya_Rajpoot Год назад

Please share PDF software for verify DSC signatures PDF..... Just one roadblock for me to completely switch to linux.

@dmitrykhangulyan4349 Год назад

I think pdftk deserves a mention in this list -- a super useful CLI tool for pdf files.

@apintleg Год назад

Thanks for the video, I was looking exactly this type of tools

@akarimarisa9675 Год назад

Nice vid, you even explained what's the difference between hand write signature and digital signature.

@thetoxichazard7605 Год назад

I love the level of control you get with Scribus for creating pdf.

@gmasterdude Год назад

Excellent video on a topic rarely covered.

@MegaMug Год назад

Oh hey, my mom just asked me yesterday about a pdf editor on Mint

@Racsu Год назад

linux mom? interesting

@TheLinuxEXP Год назад

Nice job on getting you mom to use Linux!

@vaisakhkm783 Год назад

@@TheLinuxEXP i am conviced hard... and as i only have a lap in my home... my mom also uses it... and really liked more than windows of a few years ago

@nastygamer7929 Год назад

Another lesser known tip: jPDF Tweak, my go-to solution for most things PDF

@NoNameFoundTV Год назад

Digitally sign will be super usefull for lawyers aswell. Good job as usual Nick, much love from Italy 👍

@toddpark2893 Год назад

I am so grateful. Without your videos and viewers' comments, I would never know about how great Linux is. Thanks to all 😊

@mausmalone Год назад

One use case is if you want to do an image-only PDF (i.e. converting CBR or CBZ comic book to PDF to use on an e-reader device that doesn't accept those formats). In that case there's no easier solution than the CLI tool img2pdf which is quick and easy to find in apt. That and PDF Arranger can get you pretty well sorted out in that case.

@tacticalassaultanteater9678 Год назад

Your most useful video to me yet

@mitcoes Год назад

Try to save your PDFs from Libre Office as EMBEDDED ODF. Then you will be able to open them in LO, as a copy, in ODF, and edit that copy that can be saved with the same name or other. That is the way I manage my versions instead of using GIT, with dates and times on the tittle every time I save.

@philipjones2474 Год назад

Nice to know, sounds like a practical workaround

@YanFei-zi7mm Год назад

Thanks - Great Info

@thebusinessfirm9862 Год назад

Bravo Nicola. Grazie per il video.

@scottfranco1962 3 месяца назад

Foxit for linux was unbelievably buggy. I use command line tools for my pdf work, quite successfully. The cpdf or Coherent PDF does most of what I need for splitting, merging, scaling, etc. True editing pdf is an issue, but if you convert from another format, so libreoffice, its a non-issue since you are not editing a pdf. Finally note that ANY application that can print can produce a pdf by using print to pdf. What makes PDF so useful is that it is essentially electronic paper. It views and prints exactly the same since it carries its own fonts with it and does not rely on the appearance of fonts on your system. Its so universal that most places, including print shops, prefer it instead of particular editor formats. Thus it has become the standard of document exchange.

@MrG0CE Год назад

JUST TO VIEW PDF'S I USE LLPP, IT'S AWESOME BECAUSE OF 3 REASONS: IT IS WAY FASTER THAN OTHERS BECAUSE IT USES MUPDF. IT CAN HANDLE ANNOTATIONS. IT IS KEBOARD DRIVEN WITH THE AWESOME AIR VIEW MODE.

@BujuArena Год назад

I use qpdfview and it works well for filling forms, at least. I've also used Adobe Acrobat DC in wine when I needed full PDF editing capabilities. It seems to work just fine in wine.

@bcglinux 7 месяцев назад

Thank you brother, I learned a few new tricks. God bless,

@AgnisRoz Год назад

In Latvia I've only used proper digital signing. We use edoc format, which is basically a regular document file inside a signed file. We can sign these either by using our specific program with our physical ID cards or sign them online using a mobile app to authorize signing. I'm not sure if having an image of your signature would work anywhere here.

@udance4ever Год назад

proper digital signatures in PDFs sounds like the future to me!

@callisoncaffrey Год назад

This was actually helpful. The xournal thing might be useful.

@PremierPrep Год назад

Sejda is also a GREAT all around tool for working with PDFs on Linux. It does a ton all in one application

@kychemclass5850 Год назад

Modern Linux distro's support stylus based graphics tablets (e.g. my Linux Mint 21, Cinnammon). Huion, a major graphics tablet manufacturer, now provide Linux drivers for their modern graphics tablets. XP Pen tablets have provided Linux drivers for their tablets for years. Manually getting these to work can also be done by watching the excellent RU-vid tutorial called "How to get XP-PEN working on Linux Mint Correct!" - works for non XP-PEN devices also.

@lloydbush 3 месяца назад

I've always found PDFsam very useful for splitting, merging and so on.

@HarrisonEpperson Месяц назад

Please keep in mind that some PDF creation tools will only include font character glyphs that are actually present in the document. For longer documents that might not be an issue as you've increased the likelihood that all letters are used and thus present, but if you want to edit your single page flyer to announce that there will be free pizza, you might find a missing glyph symbol instead of a 'z'.

@rosyidharyadi7871 Год назад

I've been using linux and libreoffice for years but I just knew we can edit pdf with libreoffice draw 😅. Thank you.

@RobShinn Год назад

Microsoft Edge also can edit PDFs, including signing (with a hand-drawn signature) and filling in form, etc.

@sproid Год назад

If what you want is to mainly add words (sentences, marks. etc) on a PDF and maybe sign them with a signature picture or drawing, I found that Foxit Reader is the best on both Windows and Linux. Even though the Linux version is inferior is still gets the job done.

@katech6020 Год назад

for digitally signing pdf it is a thing we always do in work, even to verify presence in case of forgetting the work id

@miguelagueda3928 Год назад

I haven't tried it, but I guess you can always go the Wine route if you need any particular feature available on a windows PDF editor.

@thierrybo6304 Год назад

Just discovered Pdf arranger’ with your video, i'am using Pdfsam on windows and linux to merge, split pdfs

@kychemclass5850 Год назад

I use PDFSam Basic, and I like it. (Tq PDFSam makers) - Primarily for extracting pages from the PDF.

@centuriomacro9787 Год назад

PDF Arranger looks awesome. PDF merging, splitting and rearranging is such a common task for me. I wonder why that app isnt preinstalled.

@ianlee6416 Год назад

Pdf chain, the GUI for pdftk is also quite good. An old interface but I find it to be adequate

@lisovyy Год назад

Actually, latest Firefox enables editing and signing PDFs

@sweetmelon3365 Год назад

Thanks 👍

@ingobalzereit Год назад

Danke!

@JoeLinux2000 Год назад

I do a lot of .pdf music sheet editing, and Gimp is the best tool I've found. The short coming is being able to view or hide a range of pages in a document with a large number of pages. You can only view the upper most non hidden page with Gimp. If you could view or hide a range of pages it would be a big help.

@JoeLinux2000 Год назад

I found out that if you hold the shift Key down while clicking on the View Eye, GIMP will select that single page. Doing it again will return to all pages selected which you need to do to save all the pages in GIMP format or export in .pdf format.`

@Yep6803 Год назад

Okular, Okular is my favorite(on everything Im on Libreoffice Draw, but that's why I love MacOS)

@eerturk Год назад

I'm using PDFsam basic for some page operations. For comments on the PDF file, I'm using qoppa pdf studio viewer.

@MrDarthsirius Год назад

I use Scribus for any PDF editing or extraction. I think it does pretty well.

@frankrassiga8294 Год назад

Sorry I have just seen your video pdf vs linux. A bit late I guess. I was surprised you didn't mention the one FREE pdf reader with brilliant editing possibilities : FOXIT READER. As an ex MS user that is the pdf reader I used for years and years. But if you want to enjoy the brilliant functions of FOXIT you need MS windows. Then after watching your video I thought : but LINUX when installing mentions that you can enjoy MS apps ON linux by means of an app called WINE (cheers). One of my 2 linux pcs has WINE already installed so I gave it a go and installed FOXIT READER free WITH the windows installer (opened with WINE evidently). And guess what it worked like a charm. No problem at all. I run MINT. I did a little test on a pdf that I had to edit but from a web page directly. I downloaded it and started editing with FOXIT and it worked perfectly. It looks like all the brilliant functions of FOXIT are there. Voilà, I hope it will be of some use for anyone reading this comment. And thanks for all your efforts for promoting LINUX on YT. You do a great job

@TheAntonio7102 6 месяцев назад

What Distro and DE are you running in this video? Looks beautiful

@FlorinArjocu Год назад

You need the certificate-signing in Romania, too. I had to use lots of signed pdf files and unfortunately the way I could mix my USB thumb drive key for the certificate + signing the pdf files was to dual boot in Windows (the only reason I keep it basically), where the basic Acrobat Reader can do the job for free. On Linux, I often use PDFSam (the paid version) to alternate mix scanned files, rotate, arrange, compress, decrypt, delete, add pages to my pdf files. I had some pdf files (apartment architecture plans) that are unusable on almost any PDV viewer on Linux, the only one that worked just fine (zooming, dragging) was Master PDF, which I might end up buying, but it is not cheap; this one brags to have all the features. I also met a fully featured editor (including the certificate signing) Java one (paid), but I don't remember the name now. I would use Libre Office Draw more often, but too many times it messes the formating of the contracts, and don't say those are something very complex, they are just text with some subtitles; the worst I think it comes from the fonts replacement, the text does not fit the page anymore in most cases.

@helloimatapir Год назад

PDR Arranger is awesome. I too, use it all the time. It's hilarious that Adobe Reader and similar programs lock these basic features behind a paywall.

@yuvvrajkperson Год назад

It pains me to say this but the built in pdf viewer in edge is so damn good. The pdf editor is the only reason I have edge installed (even on linux). I had to work heavily with pdfs for two weeks and i just bounced between edge and LOdraw

@snowflakemelter7171 Год назад

Edge will become the most popular browser in the future.

@BrianClem Год назад

I bought master pdf years ago. Solved my needs. It limits my version to the one released at that time. It works so I am fine with that.

@chrisdiehl8452 Год назад

PDF is a block format for text that is why LibreOffice Draw shows it that way.

@mr.mastermind4840 Год назад

I have been in a situation boasting about how cool Linux is but when I gave my laptop to my brother for a pdf file editing, well...it definitely is not the platforms fault though. I learned the hardway that boasting is not a good thing😅

@PlanetLinuxChannel Год назад

Regarding PDF signatures, of the eight forms I filled out for my Canadian immigration application, four of them just required me to type my name in the signature box, three of them required a “handwritten” signature, in which case an electronically scribbled one was fine, and only one of them had where I needed to click a “verify” button on the form which had me type my name then did some fancy work to add some sort of verification barcode to the form and “authorize” my signature. No electronic signature certificate or anything required, even for a government immigration application. Just a bunch of typing or scribbling my name in online forms.

@JimAllen-Persona Год назад

Reminds me of the bad old days of Document Management System Administration that overlayed e-sigs on PDF's or even worse, editing ps files programmatically to complete forms on a VAX.

@Lanzetsu Год назад

Thanks... I already went for everything described in the video myself, sadly enough Windows is not different from it tho... and the major issue is usually the PDF Edition, since regardless of the paid option you choose usually the format is so tied to Adobe standards that you never see it 100% correct in some situations with others being Master PDF, FoxIT, NitroPDF, etc

@grxgghxrpxr Год назад

Sejda PDF Editor is pretty good, available as a program and web app. It is proprietary, but is based on open source software.

@pauls.5569 Месяц назад

Thanks a lot for the Okular stemp trick. It's cumbersome indeed, but it works. Since I use Linux, this is one of the things that bothered me the most.

@warmarin Год назад

I use GIMP for most of my pdf editing needs

@brolinofvandar Год назад

I've had tools on my linux desktop for years that can do things like merge, move pages around, etc. Granted, they're usually not pretty, and you couldn't actually edit text, but they were there. Unlike on my Windows desktop at work. From what I've seen on Windows, if you want to do *anything* with a PDF aside from view it, fill out a form, and sign it, it's going to require paid for tools. Part of our workflow involved merging different records from different apps into one PDF and posting it to an archive site. I had to request and get approved to have a proprietary app added to my machine to allow me to merge the documents to meet that requirement. Not even a standard part of the corporate desktop image. I remember thinking at the time, I could do this at home easily. Even generating the PDFs wasn't universally available. In that same corporate environment, we didn't usually worry about editing a PDF. That job would go back to the author, who'd pull the original (usually Word) document and edit that. Then the PDF would be regenerated by the assigned person. As to the use case for digitally signing documents, that's an extremely common case in gov't work. Signed using a certificate from an ID card, requiring a card reader as well. At least, that's how it was in my last years working for a defense contractor before I retired.

@gidi1899 Год назад

Thanks for this video, it was really enlightening. One Question: Is there an OS that doesn't need an internet connection? only used for document editing. So, there is no need for dependency on multiple companies, and no need for IT security. A simple electronic typewriter for the private person. - copy you file to mem-stick and export it via some other system.

@Racsu Год назад

SO MUCH VIDEOS YAY, STILL WAITING FOR THE ONE ABOUT YOUR NVIDIA EXPERIENCE ON LINUX

@TheLinuxEXP Год назад

It’s coming!

@Racsu Год назад

@@TheLinuxEXP going to love by sure! always watch your videos, even before sleeping cause they are kinda chill lol

@SirRFI Год назад

@@TheLinuxEXP Is Nobara review coming too? Interested about the pros and cons from user experience perspective, and as Fedora user you can provide

@meeponinthbit3466 Год назад

Fraking Nvidia!!!! I had to disable my Intel iGPU and add a GT 1030 to get my 3080 and all my monitors working right.

@Racsu Год назад

@@SirRFI pretty sure that nick doesn't like to make distro reviews, i think he only cover the big distros or the one that can be interesting to switch from windows, like linux mint or zorin os, nobara is kinda on no where rn

@daftnord4957 Год назад

working asa IT for a large employer i ran into merging PDFs, which for some reason i could not find in Acrobat. Finally found adobe has an online tool for merging them

@DominikLuebben Год назад

Master PDF Editor is also only paying for a one year plan. Unfortunately, I had to extend my license twice already ... But it's a really good program

@Lampe2020 Год назад

10:59 I have a Wacom drawing tablet with stylus that supposedly only works with Window$ 8+ and MacOS X Leopard. In Window$ it didn't even get recognized and I had to manually download a driver to use it. In anu Ubuntu-based Linux (which it officially doesn't work with!) I just connected it via Bluetooth and it immediately worked, no setup required.

@TheLinuxEXP Год назад

Yeah, we’ve come a long way for these peripherals, it’s awesome!

@Lampe2020 Год назад

@@TheLinuxEXP What I really like is that the Wacom settings are actually well-integrated into the Gnome Settings and into the settings menu Linux Mint and Ubuntu Unity use.

@dany08011 Год назад

For editing what I usually do is converting the PDF to odt online

@Davemon115 Год назад

Hey, Nick! I think you're selling Scribus a bit short for PDF editing. Working with some complex PDFs, Scribus has blown both Draw and InkScape out of the water for me.

@davidm7640 Год назад

Please, make a video about working in Windows vs Linux, comparing performance and work process.

@vanodon2257 Год назад

Pdfgear works well for editing under WINE and its free just remember to flatpak it to stop it from sending telemetry

@developerpranav Год назад

Sejda is good for signing pdfs too

@zepar6076 Год назад

Sumatra is hands down the best for Windows, unfortunately did not find anything like this in Linux.

@LA-MJ Год назад

TheLinuxEXP: you don't need no pdf signing. Public tendering in EU: am I a joke to you?

@PaulG.x Год назад

Xournal++ does not actually open the PDF for editing. It imports it as a background. Once you have made the changes you wish to make, you can export the result as a new PDF.

@scpatl4now Год назад

I have a ton of files that are "filename.pdf.pdf" that's how I know I edited them 😅😅😅

@PaulG.x Год назад

@@scpatl4now I usually add x before the .pdf for each iteration i.e. filenamex.pdf , filenamexx.pdf , filenamexxx.pdf