Path: csiph.com!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: Peter Flynn Newsgroups: comp.mobile.android,comp.text.pdf,comp.editors Subject: Re: free app to modify pdf files Date: Sun, 22 Jun 2025 23:02:23 +0100 Organization: Usenet Labs Bozon etector Facility Lines: 37 Message-ID: References: <102kd6e$b2fc$2@dont-email.me> <102khrt$2448$1@nnrp.usenet.blueworldhosting.com> <102ljce$n6ok$1@dont-email.me> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: individual.net sxYcaiFLA2ydIDB3k6SYoQ7XrG1tpwhdcSt7tXGYEOh80kHY1h Cancel-Lock: sha1:p5HRli5VZ6hSU4g5hZbDehDBr7c= sha256:V4zN3WMEDQttEKvCq0/s+gurHIsqu7GmhAvHkun0MVc= User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird Content-Language: en-US In-Reply-To: <102ljce$n6ok$1@dont-email.me> Xref: csiph.com comp.mobile.android:149171 comp.text.pdf:2690 comp.editors:106798 On 15/06/2025 05:49, sobriquet wrote: > Op 14/06/2025 om 21:17 schreef Marion: >> On Sat, 14 Jun 2025 19:57:34 +0200, sobriquet wrote : >> >>> What's the best free app to modify pdf files on android? >>> So not just viewing a pdf file, but actually making changes in it, like >>> filling out a form with additional information. >>> >>> Thanks in advance for any suggestions! >> >> I don't know the answer, so I hope someone pitches in with the answer. I'm curious to know WHY you want to edit a PDF, which was designed as a non-editable end-of-line format. Did you want to make small changes and re-issue the PDF? Or reformat the whole document to repurpose it? It's usually MUCH easier to edit the original document and regenerate the PDF. > On the PC I've tried open office with a pdf extension, but that > doesn't seem to work very well, though it might vary depending on > the type of pdf. Several posters have already explained the difference between a textual PDF (text you can copy and paste) and an image PDF (which contains pictures of pages, and no actual text). > With the pdf that I tried, I wasn't very satisfied with the free online > version of ms-word either in the way it handled the pdf. > > I'll give the free adobe pdf-editor webapp a try to see how that works. Sometimes it works, and sometimes not. Peter