Top 5 PDF Editors for Linux

Today I talk about a few awesome PDF tools for Linux. It's not as boring as it sounds, promise.
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[Time Stamps]
0:00 Intro
2:52 Okular
4:27 Zathura
6:56 PDFSam
8:19 LibreOffice Draw
9:58 Conclusions and Patron Shouts

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[Flamehack]

I have to add some Info to that - but first - thanks for your video! Love your structure and quality.

Now the point: I as a designer (graphical and motion design) - have to tell you that libreDraw ist not a PDF-editor. Its a graphical tool that has the ability to read some aspects of PDF-Files. But it will never be able to read the full info in a PDF - wich can be crusial for what you want to do. Its basically a nice (like the name suggests) tool for drawing vectorial graphics, but will always have its problems to read the info of (for example) PFD-x4, PDF-x3, PDF-xa ect..
This is because PDFs save the graphical info differently and draw does not have a real "destiller" that decodes masks, font, transparencys ect.
Just wanted to add this constructivelly since I am seeing draw used so many times for that job - but it actually never was intended to do that (why its doing it rather.. mediocre).

to add another nice point: okular is the viewer of my choice. so much that i am even using it on my windows machine - because it is super fast - when more options for editing are added - this might be the adobe killer in that field :)

[jrbergen]

To change Okular from opening PDF's full-screen, go to Settings > Configure Okular > General > View Options > Default Zoom.

[rsmith]

Keep in mind that tools to merge, split, extract, concatenate and collate PDFs are pretty much front-ends of qpdf or pdftk, so if you'd rather work in the terminal, those are often better options. As for conversion, pandoc is great even though for complex documents, LaTeX is a necessary evil.

[josemerchan]

I was looking for a PDF viewer to add notes... did not know okkular was there all along. Thanks brother!

[mehrdadanvar]

Your application reviews are useful specifically for new to linux users.

[momomaniac]

thank you Matt 😀 i didn't know about this tools before now

[RealMazharHussain]

I love Evince. It is very simple. It also has the option to invert the colors in a pdf so that I can read a book at night without blinding my eyes.

[noferblatz]

xpdf is a fine general purpose PDF viewer. Everyone has it, and it just works.

[jemag]

Xournal is also great for editing/filling forms.

[nico]

I use the master pdf editor free aur package. it downloads the last version that don’t has a watermark. i also have pdf arranger installed. for viewing i use okular

[lts]

Can you please create a playlist that contains all your preferred tools.
Thanks you

[TradieTrev]

There's a problem with Australian Standards regarding DRM on PDFs. There's no facility for it to work on Linux. The 3rd party DRM tool used is called FileOpen and only supports Adobe 6 for linux which is now unsupported.

[roox]

I ended up having sejda as a way to add a signature (not digital signing) my actual signature to PDFs. Generally I just need okular. Okular can sort of do signatures as a stamp but it's a bit clunky. Sejda has paid features as well though. I really wish that okular would add some extra features for PDFs like sejda's signature feature, splitting, combining, etc. It would make it so good.

[domdom]

Does anyone knows a good Linux Tool where you can make handnotes (via Stylus) directly onto the PDF?
I have Xournal++, this software works, but I don't like the fact that it makes a .xpp file out of the pdf.

I want to make handnotes directly onto the pdf and it should not manipulate the file type. On Windows I have "Drawboard PDF" for this, but for Linux I was not able to find something.

Okular is not suitable, you can add handnotes yes, but this is so shitty. You don't have stuff like an eraser for handnotes, so you have to klick with your mouse to delete something handwritten--> Okular is not made for handnotes.

Any idea which tool would be suitable?

[tigreonice]

What pdf editor in linux (or windows) type acrobat PRO that is reliable, free and virus free do you recommend? I need to put photos to a pdf and edit their dimensions. Save and if you can add a watermark (that's optional, more with ambition)
And last but not least: how to install it?

[linus.]

PDF XChange runs fine on wine. Not found any other good pdf reader on Linux that could handle 500 page pdfs that well.

[jliebenguth]

Great videos - keep it up - Do you know how on linux - mint to be able to preview .pdf in file folders similar as in windows? That would be great video. Or give me a spoiler alert and tell me how.

[Aditya_Rajpoot]

I'm just one last step back to completely switch to Linux, just because Adobe Reader have a function that can Verify Digital Signature Certificate (DSC Signed by PGP types or some else authentication USB key). I never found a way to Verify DSC in PDFs on Linux.
If you know please tell me Software name.

[-someone-.]

If you recall, I’ve been asking a lot of set up questions in your recent videos.
So now I’m searching for a PDF tool coz Garuda didn’t come with one, and you were 2nd on the search results!
I value your opinions👊

[bufordmaddogtannen]

"PDF Shaper" run under Wine could be an interesting option.