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What's the best FOSS PDF reader/editor? (lemmy.world)
submitted 9 months ago by mulcahey@lemmy.world to c/foss@lemmy.world
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I (unfortunately) have to use PDFs a lot for my work. I'm on Windows 11 (for now) and I'm really sick of Xodo PDF: it has some features locked behind a paywall, and this week it keeps crashing for some reason. I would love to replace it but I haven't found a fully-featured FOSS app for reading/editing PDFs.

What do I mean by "fully-featured?"

  • Signing PDFs with my saved signature
  • Editing page order / combining multiple PDF documents into one. (On MacOS, the Preview app does this BEAUTIFULLY)
  • Annotating
  • Highlighting
  • Search

Is there a FOSS Windows app that can do all these things?

Thanks Lemmy!

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[–] cRazi_man@europe.pub 3 points 9 months ago

I use the alternativeto.net site to find stuff like this. MuPDF seems like an option to explore.

I use Firefox as a reader.