Your Favourite Open Source Software?

[Fulcrum29]

I asked one of my team to check out PDFCraft as a possible alternative to acrobat. Potentially I would roll it out instead of Acrobat Reader

OPENOFFICE has a good PDF editor. BentoPDF is also good when you want to host it in your own enterprise.

 

[AlphaJohn]

I asked one of my team to check out PDFCraft as a possible alternative to acrobat. Potentially I would roll it out instead of Acrobat Reader

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.

 

[repitah]

I've switched from Stirling PDF to PDFcraft.

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.

 

[InvisibleJim]

OPENOFFICE has a good PDF editor. BentoPDF is also good when you want to host it in your own enterprise.

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.