[vox] Best Linux PDF Editor

[Bob Scofield]

I'm no expert on PDF editing but I bought the expensive version of PDF 
Studio as part of my plan to get Windows off my business computer when 
Windows 7 expires in 2019.

I don't think Foxit has an editor, just a reader for Linux. Foxit for 
Windows is great and very powerful.  Foxit for Windows is better than 
PDF Studio, but PDF Studio is slowly getting better.

Up until at least the recent update of PDF Studio, Foxit was much better 
when I had to do cutting and pasting.

Up until the recent update of PDF Studio, the Linux version, when 
printing a file to PDF, would not include the .pdf extension with the 
result that PDF Studio could not bring up the pdf after the file was 
printed.  That has been fixed.

One area where the Linux version of PDF Studio is better than the 
Windows version is printing to a printer.  The Linux version frequently 
prints garbage on a long file, say 40, 80, 120 pages or so.  The last 
long pdf I had to print I printed by rebooting into Linux and using PDF 
studio to print the document on my Windows partition.  I could have 
printed it with Foxit, but wanted to test the Linux version of PDF 
studio.  It worked well.

One thing I've noticed though is that the default pdf reader on Linux 
Mint, Document Viewer, brings up a pdf document faster than PDF Studio.

Whatever drawbacks PDF Studio studio has I'm sticking with it as the 
price of becoming completely Windows free in 2019.

Bob


On 05/05/2017 12:48 PM, Darth Borehd wrote:
> I need to edit a lot of documentation PDFs.  They have pictures, 
> graphs, illustrations, charts, fonts, and text. I have tried 
> LibreOffice, LibreDraw, PDFedit, Inkscape, and GIMP.  None of them 
> work well.
>
> I have seen Foxit, Master PDF, and PDF Studio are commercial packages 
> that work on Linux.  Should I get one? Is there a free option somewhere?
>
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