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Is there some project that the opensource world is missing that you think it needs?

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 month ago (3 children)

I'm always surprised that, for as widely used as PDFs are, there doesn't seem to be any real alternative to Acrobat for editing existing PDFs.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

i've had good success doing small edits with libreoffice (design? draw? idk what its called).

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

that or Inkscape are the only real answers I'd have if you forced me to name one, but I'd have a hard time recommending a vector graphics editor to a regular person who just wants to edit text formatting in a PDF without messing it up.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)
[–] 0101100101 1 points 3 weeks ago

The PDF was/is a closed-source propriety file format.