Hi all, Genuine question because there are WAY too many options now
Mainly looking for:
free PDF editing
annotations
compressing files
converting docs
Trying to avoid sketchy downloads after one bad microsoft office download experience years ago
Currently switching between:
WPS Office
PDF24
browser tools
What’s been reliable for you guys long term?
No account or anything. Client-side. Totally free and best of all: it looks cool
I have tried to introduce all the features that I could think of. I've spent a look time tinkering to make sure it looked good and without bugs, but obviously there can still be some.
I hope that someone will find it useful and use it!
PS. I have designed a different version for mobile. It still works but obviously on desktop is way better, so for big changes I recommend desktop.
Hello, i need some help how to gain access to a secured adobe pdf file for my collage project, the proffesor sent us an pdf of how the project should be and he secured it so no student can copy and paste it
SumatraPDF only gives me a "Select all". I can import the PDF into GIMP, and that gives me 116 images, and if there's no other way, I would have to save them all individually as PNGs, which I've done for a few. FreeOCR is the next step, and due to the low resolution, it doesn't result in anything overly useful, retyping the input might actually be faster.
I've also tried using Image Magick with a
D:\temp>magick -density 288 tobin_sexton_1972.pdf -resize 25% ( -clone 0-0 +write 0.pdf ) ( -clone 1-1 +write 1.pdf ) ( -clone 2-2 +write 2.pdf ) null:
command line, and yes, that split the file, in this case in three 1-page segments, but the resulting output is rather utter pixelated crap. (And yes, the above could run using a "FOR" command on Windoze, I copy-edited the above from StackOverflow)
Any suggestions as how to proceed would be welcome, and as yes, I already mentioned retyping, and if that's the only way, so be is, deep sigh...
Hi! I am looking for a way to share a pdf without allowing the person I am sharing it with to download. Is this possible?
There is a PDF file on my PC that I noticed won't delete no matter what I try when I was cleaning up some files. How can I delete such a file? I'm thinking it might be a virus.
Native macOS PDF editor I've been working on, built for users who routinely open 100–300 MB CAD/BIM exports.
Video is 1:1 — same Mac (MacBook m4 pro), same file, same moment. No edits.
Why I'm posting in here: the Mac build shipped today, Apple-signed + notarized, and you're the audience that actually notices when an app feels native.
Things this thing focuses on:
- Stays responsive on 200 MB files (pinch zoom + scroll don't stutter)
- Quick Look–style fast opening, even for 200+ page documents
- Native window controls, native file dialogs, native fonts
- Crash-safety: if it ever crashes mid-edit, your work is recovered on next open
- Memory footprint stays bounded on long sessions
Features: inline text editing, annotations + signatures (with verification), full-document search incl. text inside scanned images, page management, redaction, flatten, image export, auto-save + crash recovery.
What it isn't: a 200-feature Acrobat clone — we cut a lot deliberately.
Pricing:
- 14-day free trial, no card
- €12.99/month or €79.99/year (≈49% less than monthly). No tiers, no upsells.
Disclosure: I'm one of the makers (the team behind Noir Architects, a Baltic architecture studio that built this for our own daily work first). Honest feedback welcome, especially the rough edges.
Download: https://ncored.com
Hi, I am looking for a free PDF editor that can be used on chromebook with features of editing simple formats similar to Adobe or Microsoft Word.
It can be an online or downloadable program.
I have used the trial to try and reduce my file size but it is just unsuccessful, I don't know why. it's useless in my case so I cancelled the subscription - or at least I think I did because when I go back and check my account, I've clicked every button that exist and checked every page that exists but there is no cancel button. I have attached a picture of what my account looks like prior to the charge:
Now they still charged me an annual subscription, which, prior to that, I have emailed their support several times and have been ignored. I sent a dispute with the bank and they have cancelled my card, but I don't know if the money will be refunded or would still go through.. can anyone help me?
Edit: I have just checked my account again after they charged me ang magically my subscription went active again?
I am trying to prepare a production of documents for a huge case and Acrobat is failing on every single level. The font rendering is totally broken. I try to edit a single typo on a page and the entire layout shifts, moving paragraphs around and completely ruining the formatting. To make it worse, the font matching fails even when I copy text from the exact same page, forcing me to rebuild the layout.
The performance is just pathetic at this point. I am running a high-end setup and the software still freezes for twenty seconds just trying to open a file. The background processes for the new AI features are causing micro-stutters and half my standard keyboard shortcuts randomly stop responding.
We are paying a premium monthly subscription for professional tools, not a bloated app that breaks our systems and forces us to fight the UI just to do basic work. Is there anyone actually using a reliable alternative for heavy corporate or legal work, or is the industry just permanently stuck with this garbage?
I work for a government agency and we’re currently making sure our exported PDFs meet ADA accessibility requirements, including compatibility with screen readers.
My coworker and I are running into inconsistent results when testing the same remediated PDFs using NVDA with Acrobat.
On my computer:
Some tables cause Acrobat to crash.
NVDA reads the content in a different order than what’s shown in Acrobat.
If I close and reopen the file, I sometimes get different results, for example, NVDA grouping two headings together and announcing them as a graphic when they aren’t.
On my coworker’s computer:
They don’t experience the crashes or heading issues.
Instead, all images are read at the very end of the document.
We’ve confirmed we’re using the same versions of Acrobat and NVDA with matching settings. I also reinstalled NVDA to rule out a corrupted install, but I’m still seeing the same behavior.
We’ve also gone through our accessibility checklist in InDesign, confirming tags are set up correctly, the Layers and Articles panels are in the proper order, and that everything appears ADA compliant in both InDesign and Acrobat.
Has anyone experienced this kind of inconsistency between machines? Any recommendations for NVDA settings or PDF testing best practices?
Thanks in advance!
Clarification: this is more than just an offline pdf tool
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Most tools like Smallpdf, iLovePDF, TinyWow, etc. stop working offline and usually require uploading your files.
That didn’t work for me (especially for confidential documents), so I built my own.
Kitsy is a fully client-side, local-first toolbox for everyday file, media, and document workflows:
Optional cloud support:
Everything still works fully offline if you don’t connect anything.
There are some limitations (browser + ffmpeg constraints), so check the README.
GitHub link is on the site, please leave a star
Feedback/issues are welcome on the repo so they can be properly tracked.
okay so i have an editable pdf i.e. the mext application form, i filled in all of info but everytime i try to open the pdf on laptop or phone it takes some time to load the info but the problem is , when i went to get a print of it none of the info i filled in showed up it was all blank just the application form not my info in it. what do i do help me please it's urgent!!! thanks!!
Hello. I have a PDF I want to translate from Finnish to English. I can highlight the text and right click with my browser function of course, but I would like to translate the entire pdf and re-save it as a pdf. Is there a way, or an app, that allows me to do this?
Thank you.
Whats the best (and free?) way to replace the company logo in a A3 landscape PDF drawing?
I work for an engineering firm and used the wrong company logo in all drawings. Editing the drawing in the CAD software is a lengthy process since multiple drawings were exported as pdfs and merged together.
I have the correct logo png file as well.
**Logo in red
Hi,
I got a lot of pdf books, and I would like to know what's the best app to read pdf books and easy to use and access.
I want to an app where I can put my books in sections and playlists.
Thank you all
basic question no doubt ...
I am prepping some artwork for print. it is made in photoshop, saved in pdf format. my printers have recently decided that they need me to put this into multipage pdf format.
OK, easy to do in principle using e.g. pdfsam basic, which I have installed, or using adobe's online merge thing. (I can't do this using the program I made these in, photoshop, and I'm not buying Acrobat (or subscribing or whatever you have to do to be able to use it nowadays).)
So if I think the best way to do this to avoid unwanted unknown things going wrong would be the adobe online tool ... well I'd be wrong, because reexamining the CMYK colour values after using this reveals that they have been changed. That is one thing I wanted to avoid.
So my question then ... how about using something like pdfsam basic? will this literally just join the pages together so each page remains the same as it is now in the separate files, or does it do other stuff? like insist that all the pages in the file would have the same colour profile or insist that all the pages in the file would share the same something else. I have no idea what. What goes on in pdf metadata or whatever inside pdf files is not my specialist subject.
These pages should print OK at the moment as separate files, it looks like Adobe online is changing the CMYK colours (not much, but yes it is doing it), should I trust this other program on my machine to be doing a better job? That's pretty much it.
For me Adobe Acrobat is the best way to scan more documents at once on PC. It offers simple interface and everything works smoothly. But it cost (a lot of) money and with one account you could have it only on two machines at once. I have four machines and would like to use pdf scanner and pdf editor on each of them. Can someone recommend me a PC pdf editor with built in scanner application which supports more machines with one account?
Alguien sabe de una buena aplicación que pueda escanear hojas y convertirlas en PDF, pero que no tengo que pagar una mensualidad.....porfavor
