It is always morally correct to pirate Adobe.
this post was submitted on 31 Mar 2024
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You can now edit PDFs on Firefox
Or a handful of other, open source applications
Firefox
Libreoffice Draw
Gnome Document Viewer
Only thing more pirated than Windows products are Adobe products. Smallest violin, etc etc
PDFs are kind of nice. but ideally we, as a society, took a wrong turn somewhere when we opted for complex proprietary bloated filetypes that nobody can understand or use.
I use various apps for editing PDFs.
- Firefox for quick and small edits
- Xournal++ for typing and drawing over the document to make a new document
- LibreOffice Draw, also for the above
Just switched to Linux and this is one thing I haven’t found a good solution for yet.
My only real use case is the “fill and sign” features in Adobe Reader. That allows filling with text boxes wherever I want and importing my actual handwritten signature which looks indistinguishable from print > sign > scanned.
Check this: https://github.com/Stirling-Tools/Stirling-PDF
Since you are on Linux just Start it in a Docker container locally and you are golden :)
I do love me some docker. I’ll check it out. Thanks.
There are alternatives, fortunately. If you need to do a lot of editing, Nitro is pretty good. You can pay about $15 a month for it, or pay a one time cost of like $180 and have a lifetime license. If you don't like Nitro, there's plenty of others.
What pisses me off is that Adobe marketing has people locked in with that "Pro Tools" mindset. So many gullible dumbasses think if you don't use Adobe (or Pro Tools) you just can't be taken seriously, and you don't have a "real, professional tool". I think that is less true today than it used to be, but it's still out there.
(Meanwhile if you need a Pro Tools alternative, Reaper is the fucking bomb.)
Wish Reaper was intuitive like Garageband. I need to take like a weekend crash course to understand the basics.