What is a good alternative for saving fillable form PDFs as a flat file or image? I've been using ~~openoffice~~ libreoffice draw for editing PDFs recently but every method I have come across seems like a workaround rather than a feature, while adobe can do it with a click.
this post was submitted on 24 Aug 2023
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One of my favorite image viewing and correcting softwares is Irfanview. It's not a full blown editor, but it does everything else you could imagine, extremely lightweight and it very very fast! Oh yeah, it's also free.
I've been using this software for many years, and only recently found out you can open PDFs with it. It absolutely blew me away how quickly it did this as well compared to Adobe!
The only thing I use acrobat for is for converting pdf’s to other formats. Why reader can’t do that I don’t know.
Gotta make money somehow?
Even if you did edit them, there are better tools than Acrobat.
Isn't friggin Edge better than Reader
I'm a professional, I use professional apps. I don't make the rules!
I actually used to use DC a lot in my previous job (everyone had access), and having full edit functionality would help me in this one too. I've tried other options but I haven't requested a licence because the main thing I do nowadays is merge and split pdfs and there are other options for that. I only miss it occasionally.
@TheWaterGod
The only time I ever use acrobat is when I need to fill in the blanks of a PDF. Mainly because Preview.app on macOS does a terrible job of that
Time to install
Linux!! 🎉
Adobe CS is a rip off. It's bloated like fuck.
PDFSaM (Split and Merge) is a tool I gave staff when they were complaining about editing pdfs. Covers most of the jobs the problem staff want. it also wants to install shit alongside itself. So repackage the installer