So…yeah, I know about the ragebait. So…my gf is testing the waters with Linux, moving away from Mac. I have a cute Chuwi Minibook X laptop in which I installed KDE Neon for her, with a bit of a Mac theming. Could have chosen ElementaryOS, but ah well.
At any rate, her pain point is ADobe Acrobat, which she uses constantly to edit PDF files in all sort of ways, adding pictures, cutting/pasting parts on other PDFs, modifying paragraphs and changing the arrangements and so on… I’m having a bit of trouble making it run on Wine/Lutris/Bottles, and I’d like to know if there’s any other alternative that could cover some PDF editing properly in Linux. Any suggestions?
The one thing holding me back from switching from Windows to Linux was the very poor PDF support in Linux. Every time I raised this several people told me I use PDF wrong. Others would tell me to use Inkscape, Draw, Okular etc.
Office workers, publishers, academics and many more are expected to edit several PDFs every day. It may be simply crossing things out in a draft, adding/deleting/extracting/converting pages, OCRing or dewarping images. Telling colleagues, clients and line managers they shouldn’t do it is not an option. Adobe does all this and more very well. This workflow is so common and important in so many contexts, I am surprised it’s not a separate application in the LibreOffice suite. What is more surprising is some of the attitudes.
I have now switched to Linux anyway, but I had to create scripts to do things with Ghostscript. Not very user-friendly and I wouldn’t recommend Linux to people who rely heavily on PDF handling.