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The new ability to edit PDFs in @firefox makes my life a helluva lot easier.

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[–] pdxfed@lemmy.world 26 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Didn't know that was a thing. Built in or need a. Extension? What kind of editing is enabled(fill, sign, full edit...?) and how would you compare it to other solutions and online editors?

[–] cmnybo@discuss.tchncs.de 42 points 10 months ago (1 children)

It's just filling forms, adding text, and drawing. It doesn't have actual editing capabilities.

[–] Scolding7300@lemmy.world 10 points 10 months ago (1 children)

What's actual editing?

A lot of my interaction with PDFs could be completed with filling oit forms/drawing

[–] cmnybo@discuss.tchncs.de 23 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Things like changing, moving, or deleting text and images, inserting or reordering pages, and editing the table of contents.
There's not many open source programs capable of doing that. Pdftk and LibreOffice Draw are probably the best options right now.

[–] maccentric@sh.itjust.works 5 points 10 months ago

Ooh, I hadn’t realized that LibreOffice had that capability, good to know