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    • dbeatoD
      dbeato
      last edited by

      I recommend PDFElement as @JaredBusch noted and Pdf Architect. They both work well at a decent price. Foxit Reader allows you to comment PDF like a lot of other tools but those are my recommendations.

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      • dafyreD
        dafyre @scottalanmiller
        last edited by

        @scottalanmiller said in PDF Editor Alternatives, Preferably Open Source:

        @krisleslie said in PDF Editor Alternatives, Preferably Open Source:

        I have a side question, is this for the legal industry or just general use?

        General, it is sales people requesting it.

        What is the possibility of using a converter to convert it to LibreOffice and then all future edits are done with LO... And just use the Export to PDF?

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        • ObsolesceO
          Obsolesce @scottalanmiller
          last edited by

          @scottalanmiller said in PDF Editor Alternatives, Preferably Open Source:

          @krisleslie said in PDF Editor Alternatives, Preferably Open Source:

          If you want to keep it simple, if you head over to ninite.com they have:
          Foxit Reader
          Alternative PDF Reader 9.0.1.1049
          LibreOffice
          Free Office Suite 6.0.2 (JRE recommended)
          SumatraPDF
          Lightweight PDF Reader 3.1.2
          CutePDF
          Print Documents as PDF Files 3.2
          PDFCreator
          Print Documents as PDF Files 3.1.2.10844
          OpenOffice

          Most of those are readers, though. Foxit, for example, to edit is $130.

          Yeah, but it works well and is cheaper than Adobe Pro. Foxit is our go to as well.

          I should mention there are some users who need Adobe Pro where Foxit doesn't work 100%. But the details I don't know there.

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          • scottalanmillerS
            scottalanmiller @Obsolesce
            last edited by

            @tim_g said in PDF Editor Alternatives, Preferably Open Source:

            @scottalanmiller said in PDF Editor Alternatives, Preferably Open Source:

            @krisleslie said in PDF Editor Alternatives, Preferably Open Source:

            If you want to keep it simple, if you head over to ninite.com they have:
            Foxit Reader
            Alternative PDF Reader 9.0.1.1049
            LibreOffice
            Free Office Suite 6.0.2 (JRE recommended)
            SumatraPDF
            Lightweight PDF Reader 3.1.2
            CutePDF
            Print Documents as PDF Files 3.2
            PDFCreator
            Print Documents as PDF Files 3.1.2.10844
            OpenOffice

            Most of those are readers, though. Foxit, for example, to edit is $130.

            Yeah, but it works well and is cheaper than Adobe Pro. Foxit is our go to as well.

            I should mention there are some users who need Adobe Pro where Foxit doesn't work 100%. But the details I don't know there.

            Foxit is what we already had. Looking if saving money from that is viable.

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            • DustinB3403D
              DustinB3403 @scottalanmiller
              last edited by

              @scottalanmiller Any update from whoever is evaluating LibreOffice?

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              • ObsolesceO
                Obsolesce @scottalanmiller
                last edited by

                @scottalanmiller said in PDF Editor Alternatives, Preferably Open Source:

                @tim_g said in PDF Editor Alternatives, Preferably Open Source:

                @scottalanmiller said in PDF Editor Alternatives, Preferably Open Source:

                @krisleslie said in PDF Editor Alternatives, Preferably Open Source:

                If you want to keep it simple, if you head over to ninite.com they have:
                Foxit Reader
                Alternative PDF Reader 9.0.1.1049
                LibreOffice
                Free Office Suite 6.0.2 (JRE recommended)
                SumatraPDF
                Lightweight PDF Reader 3.1.2
                CutePDF
                Print Documents as PDF Files 3.2
                PDFCreator
                Print Documents as PDF Files 3.1.2.10844
                OpenOffice

                Most of those are readers, though. Foxit, for example, to edit is $130.

                Yeah, but it works well and is cheaper than Adobe Pro. Foxit is our go to as well.

                I should mention there are some users who need Adobe Pro where Foxit doesn't work 100%. But the details I don't know there.

                Foxit is what we already had. Looking if saving money from that is viable.

                There's probably copyrights and stuff with PDF. Otherwise PDF editors I'm sure would be more abundant. I know of no real ones that don't cost a decent amount of money. You're probably stuck paying for something like that, or change format.

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                • JaredBuschJ
                  JaredBusch @scottalanmiller
                  last edited by

                  @scottalanmiller said in PDF Editor Alternatives, Preferably Open Source:

                  @tim_g said in PDF Editor Alternatives, Preferably Open Source:

                  @scottalanmiller said in PDF Editor Alternatives, Preferably Open Source:

                  @krisleslie said in PDF Editor Alternatives, Preferably Open Source:

                  If you want to keep it simple, if you head over to ninite.com they have:
                  Foxit Reader
                  Alternative PDF Reader 9.0.1.1049
                  LibreOffice
                  Free Office Suite 6.0.2 (JRE recommended)
                  SumatraPDF
                  Lightweight PDF Reader 3.1.2
                  CutePDF
                  Print Documents as PDF Files 3.2
                  PDFCreator
                  Print Documents as PDF Files 3.1.2.10844
                  OpenOffice

                  Most of those are readers, though. Foxit, for example, to edit is $130.

                  Yeah, but it works well and is cheaper than Adobe Pro. Foxit is our go to as well.

                  I should mention there are some users who need Adobe Pro where Foxit doesn't work 100%. But the details I don't know there.

                  Foxit is what we already had. Looking if saving money from that is viable.

                  PDFElement is $100, so it is a savings. But savings enough to retrain users? Maybe not.

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                  • iroalI
                    iroal
                    last edited by

                    For editing only free alternative I've found is LibreOffice, but it quite limited.

                    For merging I like pdf24, It works great.

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                    • momurdaM
                      momurda @Obsolesce
                      last edited by

                      @tim_g said in PDF Editor Alternatives, Preferably Open Source:

                      @scottalanmiller said in PDF Editor Alternatives, Preferably Open Source:

                      @tim_g said in PDF Editor Alternatives, Preferably Open Source:

                      @scottalanmiller said in PDF Editor Alternatives, Preferably Open Source:

                      @krisleslie said in PDF Editor Alternatives, Preferably Open Source:

                      If you want to keep it simple, if you head over to ninite.com they have:
                      Foxit Reader
                      Alternative PDF Reader 9.0.1.1049
                      LibreOffice
                      Free Office Suite 6.0.2 (JRE recommended)
                      SumatraPDF
                      Lightweight PDF Reader 3.1.2
                      CutePDF
                      Print Documents as PDF Files 3.2
                      PDFCreator
                      Print Documents as PDF Files 3.1.2.10844
                      OpenOffice

                      Most of those are readers, though. Foxit, for example, to edit is $130.

                      Yeah, but it works well and is cheaper than Adobe Pro. Foxit is our go to as well.

                      I should mention there are some users who need Adobe Pro where Foxit doesn't work 100%. But the details I don't know there.

                      Foxit is what we already had. Looking if saving money from that is viable.

                      There's probably copyrights and stuff with PDF. Otherwise PDF editors I'm sure would be more abundant. I know of no real ones that don't cost a decent amount of money. You're probably stuck paying for something like that, or change format.

                      It is an open standard.

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                      • scottalanmillerS
                        scottalanmiller
                        last edited by

                        Person testing just said that LibreOffice Draw appears to work for them!

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                        • DustinB3403D
                          DustinB3403
                          last edited by

                          @scottalanmiller sweeeeet!

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                          • ObsolesceO
                            Obsolesce @scottalanmiller
                            last edited by

                            @scottalanmiller said in PDF Editor Alternatives, Preferably Open Source:

                            Person testing just said that LibreOffice Draw appears to work for them!

                            LibreOffice Draw is great. I didn't think of using that to make PDFs.... I've only used it to make charts, maps, and diagrams.

                            But I just did a quick search and found this:
                            https://www.maketecheasier.com/create-a-pdf-with-fillable-forms-in-libreoffice/

                            So awesome!

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                            • scottalanmillerS
                              scottalanmiller @DustinB3403
                              last edited by

                              @dustinb3403 said in PDF Editor Alternatives, Preferably Open Source:

                              @scottalanmiller sweeeeet!

                              Yeah, this is a huge win.

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                              • JaredBuschJ
                                JaredBusch @Obsolesce
                                last edited by

                                @tim_g said in PDF Editor Alternatives, Preferably Open Source:

                                @scottalanmiller said in PDF Editor Alternatives, Preferably Open Source:

                                Person testing just said that LibreOffice Draw appears to work for them!

                                LibreOffice Draw is great. I didn't think of using that to make PDFs.... I've only used it to make charts, maps, and diagrams.

                                But I just did a quick search and found this:
                                https://www.maketecheasier.com/create-a-pdf-with-fillable-forms-in-libreoffice/

                                So awesome!

                                All parts of LibreOffice can create a PDF natively.

                                I thought the criteria was to edit an existing PDF.

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                                • JaredBuschJ
                                  JaredBusch @scottalanmiller
                                  last edited by

                                  @scottalanmiller said in PDF Editor Alternatives, Preferably Open Source:

                                  Person testing just said that LibreOffice Draw appears to work for them!

                                  So it is opening an existing PDF, editing, and then saving again, correct?

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                                  • ObsolesceO
                                    Obsolesce @JaredBusch
                                    last edited by

                                    @jaredbusch said in PDF Editor Alternatives, Preferably Open Source:

                                    @scottalanmiller said in PDF Editor Alternatives, Preferably Open Source:

                                    Person testing just said that LibreOffice Draw appears to work for them!

                                    So it is opening an existing PDF, editing, and then saving again, correct?

                                    Yeah I tested that myself. I opened a 175 page PDF and could edit it as if it was native to it.

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                                    • S
                                      Spiral
                                      last edited by Spiral

                                      I have found 2 solutions which work well for our CPA firm.
                                      For the past few years we have been happy with:
                                      https://www.tracker-software.com/product/pdf-xchange-editor
                                      Also, for another pdf editing option, which includes some DMS like features is:
                                      https://www.lucion.com/filecenter-overview.html
                                      However, neither is open-source, but you can license the Tracker solution code for dev purposes. Actually that is that the "File Center product does, and add other bells and whistles on it.

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                                      • scottalanmillerS
                                        scottalanmiller @JaredBusch
                                        last edited by

                                        @jaredbusch said in PDF Editor Alternatives, Preferably Open Source:

                                        @scottalanmiller said in PDF Editor Alternatives, Preferably Open Source:

                                        Person testing just said that LibreOffice Draw appears to work for them!

                                        So it is opening an existing PDF, editing, and then saving again, correct?

                                        yes.

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                                        • S
                                          Spiral
                                          last edited by

                                          Try the "Edit" feature in the Tracker product I post above. For example, on an existing PDF you can edit, move or delete things:
                                          0_1521155586196_f7bf55b1-f050-480d-b543-777933152656-image.png

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                                          • dbeatoD
                                            dbeato @Spiral
                                            last edited by

                                            @spiral said in PDF Editor Alternatives, Preferably Open Source:

                                            Try the "Edit" feature in the Tracker product I post above. For example, on an existing PDF you can edit, move or delete things:
                                            0_1521155586196_f7bf55b1-f050-480d-b543-777933152656-image.png

                                            But it just made the whole PDF out of line on the text.

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