On PDF Software

elfprince ok good. saw nothing in our own SC.
DDG search led it a 'top ten' article at itsfoss:
libre draw (who knew?)
okular (I thought that just had forms and no editor)?
scribus (I have scribus and this is not achievable asfaik)
qoppa
masterpdfeditor
xjournal
the rest were "arrangers" with no true text editing. it was all sequencing, merging, etc the same stuff I can do with sam or unite.
...linux has forms and arranging covered but not true editing as far as I can see.

the last true pdf editor (text, graphics) I used was Adobe PitStop and no way am I introducing that into solus...
I like the upload simplicity sejda and checking out now, thank you.

**anyone still reading I could probably save or print a pdf into postscript or .eps then bring it into gimp or something and edit in that static form..would be convoluted but someday

brent hard to find. is there a foss one you'd recommend?

Obviously your question wasn't aimed at me, but for decades I used Visual Studio from Microsoft on a nearly all day/every day basis. When I retired, I experimented with the somewhat stripped down version that's FOSS here, but I really haven't done much with it. For most purposes, I've found Gedit and Kate to both be very versatile and capable, depending on which one was available on the particular system/DE. And both are in the repository, so the DE doesn't actually matter much.

A really handy thing for me is that the Micro CLI editor uses the same shortcuts that Gedit and Kate do, for example, CTRL+O to open a file, CTRL+S to save one, and CTRL+Q to quit. So, that's the editor I always use in the terminal. I know how to use others, like Nano. I just don't like them.

brent You can try onlyoffice:
https://www.onlyoffice.com/blog/2023/10/onlyoffice-docs-7-5-released

If you want to try it, you can dowload the appimage from here:
https://github.com/ONLYOFFICE/DesktopEditors/releases/tag/v7.5.0

algent I have been using OnlyOffice instead of Libre---but did not know they had some internal program that let you take a pdf and edit text and photos? is that right?

brent PDF Editor was introduced in latest version. 7.5.0.

Thanks to All ️ ️ ️
I didn't need to worry after all as the installation went without a hitch.
All the Icon's are in the correct places and GUI looks pleasingly familiar to me. ️

elfprince
I agree with the need for a really good pdf editor & Master PDF Editor looks like it ticks all the boxes but is a little too expensive for me given the amount of times I would probably need to use it.

algent will check that out right now. I use the appimage

I just download from their site then I can always be current. (not hard to update but its preferences)
But is interesting there is a flatpak
Like now I checked need to update will do later.
ACK am still on ver 5.8 about 11 or 12 updates behind..lol dont use this computer much.

For those who are old school & don't mind doing things via the command line then qpdf is already included/part of Solus.
I remember using it to create & password protect some pdf's containing my ID documents that I needed to send via email once.
Once I had worked out the correct cmd's it worked great.
It really is good & with all info and usage is here.
https://qpdf.readthedocs.io
& some pdf page split examples among others here.
https://qpdf.readthedocs.io/en/stable/cli.html#pdf-modification

EDIT: PDF got it's own thread

Anyone tried PDF4QT?

The software looks promising, but my worry is that it has only one real developer until now.
https://github.com/JakubMelka/PDF4QT/graphs/contributors

The new pdf features in OnlyOffice look good, but are limited to basic annotation and form filling

The easiest way I've found to actually PDF text on linux is to open it with LibreOffice Draw, do the edits, then re-export as a PDF.
Sometimes formatting and text styles are changed by this method.

davidjharder it's amazing Draw would function like Illustrator of photoshop. I can't see it converting it to raw postscript like those two, but it obviously converts it to some fluid form. far out.