Fulcrum29
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OPENOFFICE has a good PDF editor. BentoPDF is also good when you want to host it in your own enterprise.
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OPENOFFICE has a good PDF editor. BentoPDF is also good when you want to host it in your own enterprise.
AlphaJohn
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Already did. Well the 3 PC's that had no sub but needed PDF editors.
Works 100% for what we need, and its light weight and fast.
I'm testing PDFcraft weekly to replace the hands-and-feet of Acrobat users. Those Adobe prices are not a joke, and only a handful need things like form design.
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I have a Friendly Stack for running Bento in Docker https://github.com/thefriendlymanual/stacks/tree/main/bentopdf
Stirling PDF is also OK but I do like Bento a little better (not that I've used either of them that much!)
Editing someone else's pdf is always a bit hit and miss because of the format itself and depending on how the original was created - I've never used Adobe Pro so not sure how much difference that makes.
Of course, now we have AI you can extract a pdf into an editable form and tell the AI to fix textboxes, images etc to make the editable form more usable. I see that PDFCraft has an MCP that might be good for this.
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AlphaJohn
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I see Content aware tools getting some love, still not Photosphop level but getting there. Also CADCraft seen some improvements, it no longer crash when opening large designs.
So might be a good idea to revisit it every now and then.
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Great website to see the changes and how fast these apps get updates https://overprivileged.github.io/craft-watch/
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Thanks. I've added these except Photocraft as it is already covered under the entry for Artcraft and Midori as they have a security block on their link so I couldn't get the details.