Top 5 PDF Editors for Linux

[@Flamehack]

I have to add some Info to that - but first - thanks for your video! Love your structure and quality. Now the point: I as a designer (graphical and motion design) - have to tell you that libreDraw ist not a PDF-editor. Its a graphical tool that has the ability to read some aspects of PDF-Files. But it will never be able to read the full info in a PDF - wich can be crusial for what you want to do. Its basically a nice (like the name suggests) tool for drawing vectorial graphics, but will always have its problems to read the info of (for example) PFD-x4, PDF-x3, PDF-xa ect.. This is because PDFs save the graphical info differently and draw does not have a real "destiller" that decodes masks, font, transparencys ect. Just wanted to add this constructivelly since I am seeing draw used so many times for that job - but it actually never was intended to do that (why its doing it rather.. mediocre). to add another nice point: okular is the viewer of my choice. so much that i am even using it on my windows machine - because it is super fast - when more options for editing are added - this might be the adobe killer in that field :)

[@jrbergen]

To change Okular from opening PDF's full-screen, go to Settings > Configure Okular > General > View Options > Default Zoom.

[@charlescadogan8504]

Worked perfectly. Thank you

[@rsmith31416]

Keep in mind that tools to merge, split, extract, concatenate and collate PDFs are pretty much front-ends of qpdf or pdftk, so if you'd rather work in the terminal, those are often better options. As for conversion, pandoc is great even though for complex documents, LaTeX is a necessary evil.

[@josemerchan6800]

I was looking for a PDF viewer to add notes... did not know okkular was there all along. Thanks brother!

[@RealMazharHussain]

I love Evince. It is very simple. It also has the option to invert the colors in a pdf so that I can read a book at night without blinding my eyes.

[@N0zer0]

zathura can do that too if you press ^r

[@SelectAnomaly]

This video helped me find what I needed. I wanted a pdf viewer that could allow me to set my own bookmarks and whatnot, and Okular does that perfectly. Thank you so much. :)

[@mehrdadanvar8518]

Your application reviews are useful specifically for new to linux users.

[@momomaniac1234]

thank you Matt 😀 i didn't know about this tools before now

[@noferblatz]

xpdf is a fine general purpose PDF viewer. Everyone has it, and it just works.

[@tigreonice2339]

What pdf editor in linux (or windows) type acrobat PRO that is reliable, free and virus free do you recommend? I need to put photos to a pdf and edit their dimensions. Save and if you can add a watermark (that's optional, more with ambition) And last but not least: how to install it?

[@jemag]

Xournal is also great for editing/filling forms.

[@lts8683]

Can you please create a playlist that contains all your preferred tools. Thanks you

[@patrickdijkman8974]

Nice content, thanks for this one.

[@linus.]

PDF XChange runs fine on wine. Not found any other good pdf reader on Linux that could handle 500 page pdfs that well.

[@roo79x]

I ended up having sejda as a way to add a signature (not digital signing) my actual signature to PDFs. Generally I just need okular. Okular can sort of do signatures as a stamp but it's a bit clunky. Sejda has paid features as well though. I really wish that okular would add some extra features for PDFs like sejda's signature feature, splitting, combining, etc. It would make it so good.

[@phoenixrising4995]

Scribus also works well. There is lots of tools on Linux now for pdfs

[@roo79x]

@@phoenixrising4995 Thanks I'll have a look at it. You're right there is. I just wish that the default ones had a few more common features.

[@-someone-.]

If you recall, I’ve been asking a lot of set up questions in your recent videos. So now I’m searching for a PDF tool coz Garuda didn’t come with one, and you were 2nd on the search results! I value your opinions👊

[@chlorosokita596]

I installed Garuda "Talon" just a couple weeks ago and it comes with qpdfview by default. Personally I was used to PDF Shuffler back on Ubuntu. And maybe that's just me but Draw tends to destroy the layouts of all PDFs to the point it's just not my go-to app.

[@-someone-.]

@@chlorosokita596 I’m actually moving away from Arch as it seems to have issues with NORD VPN. Arch isn’t officially supported by NORD (I contacted them), and so I have to use openvpn as a work around. The problem is my dns is leaking when using the nordvpn application, it doesn’t tunnel “everything”, ...if I use openvpn it’s fine, but I’m still researching the main differences (security wise) in using openvpn (with my Nord account) and NORD natively.

[@stefmyt5062]

What I usually do is I convert PDF documents to a doc file using Pandoc, edit it with LibreOffice, and then convert it to PDF again.

[@TheLinuxCast]

I love pandoc. I don't like the ton of Haskell dependencies it downloads.

[@twb0109]

@@TheLinuxCast on the AUR there's pandoc-bin

[@thingsiplay]

pandoc is my favorite PDF tool.

[@Aditya_Rajpoot]

I'm just one last step back to completely switch to Linux, just because Adobe Reader have a function that can Verify Digital Signature Certificate (DSC Signed by PGP types or some else authentication USB key). I never found a way to Verify DSC in PDFs on Linux. If you know please tell me Software name.

[@nico1337]

I use the master pdf editor free aur package. it downloads the last version that don’t has a watermark. i also have pdf arranger installed. for viewing i use okular

[@charlescadogan8504]

Separately, my many thanks to this channel for introducing me to Okular

[@charlescadogan8504]

Okular is excellent for annotating pdfs. It's worth spending a bit of time with it when starting to explore it. It's highly customisable and you can set up your quick tool bar once you know what tools you want.

[@TradieTrev]

There's a problem with Australian Standards regarding DRM on PDFs. There's no facility for it to work on Linux. The 3rd party DRM tool used is called FileOpen and only supports Adobe 6 for linux which is now unsupported.

[@fouadzouraibi5407]

Actually I liked the rounded corners of windows every thing is rounded, is it you or an update ?

[@wisnoskij]

I just had to find one yesterday. I wonder if you noticed one of the top results when searching for Linux pdf editor. "PDFs have never really been for editing. They're designed for making a finished document portable to essentially anywhere."" Yada Yada Yada, the guy goes on for several paragraps and replies arguing about how you should never edit a pdf. God, I sure love the Linux community. pdfsam seems to require the paid version to edit, from what their website says. The only porgram I could find that would do I I needed (import image to sign document with) was the old pdfmaster. I kept hearing that Draw often screws up the formatting.

[@bufordmaddogtannen]

"PDF Shaper" run under Wine could be an interesting option.

[@gjoe3756]

How to get OCR in pdf apps?

[@ericpellegrin4514]

Thank you. This was very helpful.

[@jesse7631]

Nice video! Hey, how do you get colors in your man pages?

[@TheLinuxCast]

Terminal For Life has a video on it. kzbin.info/www/bejne/mmmYhIdombasn9E

[@robdavis8556]

I always start with libre office. If that lets me down GIMP can usually handle it. Though it's got some quirks when dealing with PDFs.

[@RonSheely]

Thank you.

[@RoryIsNotACabbage]

Don't sleep on master pdf free though. Only thing I've found that let's me add calculated fields (libre might do it but it breaks the formatting on my dnd sheets)

[@OpenTechInstitute]

This video focuses on PDF editors. If you are looking for a plain vanilla PDF viewer for Linux, nothing beats Evince PDF viewer for Linux. Evince is a super-fast and lightweight PDF viewer with fast transitions between pages. You can check live demo of Evince viewer at: kzbin.info/www/bejne/hZfUlWNmeaxllassi=wLmwbfrrOJdmFgoK

[@Robertass2000]

it has huge drawback with zoom limitation on hi-res files. Then zathura comes in. But again zathura is featureless such as annotations and navigation in huge numbered page files. Where is pdf reader that is convenient, functional, and foss ? Perhaps will never be created. Okular seams a good option, but again installation will cause a lot of useless bloatware.

[@gettriggered_ian3269]

How do you get blur and transparency on context menus with picom and dwm?

[@TheLinuxCast]

I didn't do anything special, just use picom and set the opacity and blur. My picom.conf is in my dot files, link in the description. I use the jonaberg fork.

[@rkdeshdeepak4131]

Any good cli program to ased text/link

[@Auguste86]

Zathura is great for viewing comics/mqnga

[@samsungtablet6948]

Still a tool to verify digital signatures on linux is elusive! What's the point in having a digitally signed pdf without the ability to verify digital signatures.

[@TheLinuxCast]

I may be wrong but I think Okular will do this. It has the certificate functionality

[@tauseefhashmi-wr9iv]

Thumbs up. Suggest you reduce the duration of your videos! Nice work overall.

[@sirdee9607]

Thx

[@pritkumar2888]

Libreoffice just straight up crashes

[@eli1882]

Zathura is not a terminal application.

[@TheLinuxCast]

I suppose technically, you are correct. But it is launched through the terminal. Yes, you can launch it through a menu, and even open files through it without the terminal, but I'd bet money that if I put up a poll for zathura users, 95% of them open it on the command line.

[@ofernandofilo]

you don't need to do taxes

[@TheLinuxCast]

I wish that were true. The only thing in life that always holds true is death and taxes

[@ofernandofilo]

@@TheLinuxCast haha ok, :D

[@umka7536]

qpdf - best for scripts.

[@bj16162]

LibreOffice Draw also can do

[@kevinklement2621]

Sioyek > llpp > zathura

[@rsmith31416]

Sioyek looks great. Unfortunately, it is really slow (in part due to its large number of features). In fact, all of the above-mentioned PDF viewers are slow with large PDFs (2000+ pages), in some cases, having rendering issues. mupdf is the rendering engine used by all of them (at least, as a compilation option), but for some reason, mupdf is extremely fast and renders flawlessly, so I don't know why there is a difference in performance. The main drawback with mupdf is that it doesn't have vim-like keyboard shortcuts although technically, it can be changed easily by modifying its source code.

[@kevinklement2621]

@@rsmith31416 Bare mupdf definitely has its uses. I just wish it supported SyncTeX. But I'm curious; why are you routinely reading huge PDFs?

[@rsmith31416]

@@kevinklement2621 mupdf-gl (or mupdf-x11) implements many features for a minimal PDF viewer (markers, bookmarks, annotations, tinted color mode, blazing fast search, rotation). There are certainly glaringly missing features, such as dual mode (or for that matter, SyncTex) but this not the viewer-only version. Maybe not routinely, but I often read textbooks (medicine) and reference manuals (programming) that are quite large. I used to use zathura, but I found it it not as smooth as one would have hoped given its suckless ethos.

[@bg4801]

There is nothing that is as good as adobe, sadly. There is a reason they have a chokehold on pdf, even nuance etc falls short. It sucks but right now nothing is as good as shit company Adobe