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Re: Editing PDF files

From Maria Sophia <mariasophia@comprehension.com>
Newsgroups alt.comp.os.windows-11, alt.comp.os.windows-10, comp.text.pdf
Subject Re: Editing PDF files
Date 2026-10-02 20:19 -0400
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Carlos E. R. wrote:
> I saw FFx recommended in the Firefox group (alt.comp.software.firefox),

Here's my latest pdfchart for freeware that we've tested on this ng.

It's hard to fit each entry only on a single line, so there are a lot of
abbreviations below, similar to what you did with FF or FFox above.

 C:\software\editors\pspdf\pdfchart.txt

Known free PDF editors discussed on comp.text.editors 
 [x] Add text to pdf (IV or Paint.NET plugins + Ghostscript, pdfgear)
 [x] Print booklet format (pdfbook, pdfbooklet, enbooken, acrobat reader)
 [x] Add or concatenate pages (pdftk, acrobat payware)
 [x] Add signature (Adobe Reader, PDFgear)
 [x] Archive sites (wkhtmltopdf, Acrobat payware,fastone scroll capture)
 [x] Compress PDFs (ImageMagick, PDFgear, rlvision)
 [x] Convert PDF to MSOffice (PDFgear, Calibre for MS Word only)
 [x] Convert PDF to MSWord (Calibre, PDFgear)
 [x] Convert PDF to epub format (Calibre)
 [x] Convert PDF to PostScript (Calibre, Poppler)
 [x] Converts PDFs to HTML (poppler)
 [x] Convert PDF to raster (Imagemagick,GhostScript,Poppler-pdftocairo)
 [x] Convert PDF to vector (Inkscape, Poppler-pdftocairo)
 [x] Converts PDFs to PPM/PGM/PBM image formats (poppler)
 [x] Minor text editing (Adobe Reader commenting, PDF-XChange Editor)
 [x] Generate PDF using markup language (LaTeX via pdfTeX or LuaTeX)
 [x] Embeds files into a PDF as attachments (poppler) 
 [x] Extract images (PDFExchangeEditor,PDF Shaper,PDFgear,poppler,muPDF)
 [x] Extract text (poppler) or mine textual & metadata (pdfminersix)
 [x] Extracts embedded files (attachments) from a PDF (poppler)
 [x] Fastest PDF readers (Sumatra or Foxit)
 [x] Globally search & replace PDF text (Libre Office)
 [x] List fonts used in a PDF (poppler)
 [x] Metadata display on command line (poppler)
 [x] Metadata removal (LibreOffice Writer, PDFgear offline)
 [x] OCR, PDF-Xchange, freeOCR (paperfile.net), GOCR (jocr.sourceforge.net)
 [x] Offline encrypt PDF with a password (pdfencrypt)
 [x] Online shrink PDF <adobe.com/acrobat/online/compress-pdf.html>
 [x] PDF text to audio file (Balabolka)
 [x] Delete pages (pdfsam, pdftk, PDF-XChange Editor, PDF Arranger)
 [x] Renumber pages (Acrobat Reader)
 [x] Reorder pages (pdftk, PDF-XChange Editor, PDF Arranger)
 [x] Rotate pages (pdftk, mutool, PDF-XChange Editor, PDF Arranger)
 [x] Remove restrictions (Ghostscript,Ghostview,ps2edit,pdfwrite,pdf2djvu)
 [x] Separates a PDF into individual pages (poppler)
 [x] Split PDFs (PDFgear, Poppler, Ghostscript) 
 [x] Merge PDFs (pdfsam, pdftk, PDFgear, Poppler, Ghostscript) 
 [x] Tile PDFs (i.e., to print large posters) (Posterazor)
 [x] Redact sensitive information (PDF-Xchange Editor, Adobe Acrobat Pro)
 [x] Add watermarks or background layers (pdftk, PDFgear, PDFsam)
 [x] Add bookmarks/TOC (jpdfbookmarks, LaTeX(hyperref), PDF-ExchangeEditor
 [x] Flatten form fields (Ghostscript, Acrobat Pro)
 [x] Embed audio/video into PDFs (Acrobat Pro, LaTeX (media9 package)
 [x] Generate PDF from Markdown or HTML (Pandoc, wkhtmltopdf)
 [x] Create fillable forms (LibreOffice Draw, Scribus, LaTeX (AcroTeX))
 [x] Fill out active & passive (flat) PDF form fields (pdfgear)
 [x] Batch rename, convert, split, etc. (PDFsam, Poppler, Ghostscript)
 [x] Extract annotations/comments (PDF-XChange Editor, Adobe Acrobat)
 [x] Convert to OCR (Tesseract OCR, PDF-Xchange, ABBYY FineReader)
 [x] Add hyperlinks & buttons (LibreOffice,LaTeX,PDF-XChange Editor)
 [x] Compare two PDFs side-by-side (DiffPDF, Acrobat Pro)
 [x] Digitally sign with certificate-based signature (Foxit PDF Editor)
 [x] Free PDF samples 
     <https://examplefile.com/document/pdf>
     <https://onlinetestcase.com/pdf-file/>
     <https://sample-files.com/documents/pdf/>
     <https://graydart.com/sample/documents/pdf>
     <https://freetestdata.com/document-files/pdf/>
     <https://getsamplefiles.com/sample-document-files/pdf>
     <https://learningcontainer.com/sample-pdf-files-for-testing/>
 [?] What other tasks do you do to edit or modify a PDF file?
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Editing PDF files "Carlos E.R." <robin_listas@es.invalid> - 2026-09-29 21:24 +0200
  Re: Editing PDF files "J. P. Gilliver" <G6JPG@255soft.uk> - 2026-09-29 20:45 +0100
    Re: Editing PDF files knuttle <keith_nuttle@yahoo.com> - 2026-09-29 17:13 -0400
    Re: Editing PDF files "Carlos E. R." <robin_listas@es.invalid> - 2026-10-01 12:43 +0200
  Re: Editing PDF files T <T@invalid.invalid> - 2026-09-29 12:49 -0700
    Re: Editing PDF files "Carlos E.R." <robin_listas@es.invalid> - 2026-09-30 12:21 +0200
      Re: Editing PDF files "J. P. Gilliver" <G6JPG@255soft.uk> - 2026-09-30 13:20 +0100
        Re: Editing PDF files "Carlos E. R." <robin_listas@es.invalid> - 2026-10-01 12:44 +0200
      Re: Editing PDF files T <T@invalid.invalid> - 2026-09-30 12:07 -0700
        Re: Editing PDF files "Carlos E. R." <robin_listas@es.invalid> - 2026-10-01 12:46 +0200
          Re: Editing PDF files "J. P. Gilliver" <G6JPG@255soft.uk> - 2026-10-01 18:10 +0100
            Re: Editing PDF files Paul <nospam@needed.invalid> - 2026-10-01 13:35 -0400
            Re: Editing PDF files "Carlos E. R." <robin_listas@es.invalid> - 2026-10-01 20:34 +0200
              Re: Editing PDF files Maria Sophia <mariasophia@comprehension.com> - 2026-10-02 06:07 -1100
                Re: Editing PDF files "Carlos E. R." <robin_listas@es.invalid> - 2026-10-02 19:49 +0200
                Re: Editing PDF files Maria Sophia <mariasophia@comprehension.com> - 2026-10-02 08:24 -1100
                Re: Editing PDF files "Carlos E. R." <robin_listas@es.invalid> - 2026-10-02 21:59 +0200
                Re: Editing PDF files Maria Sophia <mariasophia@comprehension.com> - 2026-10-02 20:11 -0400
          Re: Editing PDF files T <T@invalid.invalid> - 2026-10-01 11:46 -0700
            Re: Editing PDF files "Carlos E. R." <robin_listas@es.invalid> - 2026-10-01 21:39 +0200
              Re: Editing PDF files T <T@invalid.invalid> - 2026-10-01 14:18 -0700
  Re: Editing PDF files PDF Files <invalid@invalid.invalid> - 2026-09-29 21:05 +0100
  Re: Editing PDF files Zaidy036 <Zaidy036@air.isp.spam> - 2026-09-29 18:26 -0400
    Re: Editing PDF files T <T@invalid.invalid> - 2026-09-29 16:51 -0700
      Re: Editing PDF files "Carlos E. R." <robin_listas@es.invalid> - 2026-10-01 12:48 +0200
        Re: Editing PDF files T <T@invalid.invalid> - 2026-10-01 11:47 -0700
          Re: Editing PDF files "Carlos E. R." <robin_listas@es.invalid> - 2026-10-01 21:40 +0200
            Re: Editing PDF files T <T@invalid.invalid> - 2026-10-01 14:19 -0700
    Re: Editing PDF files "J. P. Gilliver" <G6JPG@255soft.uk> - 2026-09-30 01:27 +0100
      Re: Editing PDF files T <T@invalid.invalid> - 2026-09-29 20:56 -0700
        Re: Editing PDF files "Carlos E. R." <robin_listas@es.invalid> - 2026-10-01 12:50 +0200
      Re: Editing PDF files "....winston" <winstonmvp@gmail.com> - 2026-09-30 00:34 -0400
  Re: Editing PDF files "....winston" <winstonmvp@gmail.com> - 2026-09-29 20:15 -0400
    Re: Editing PDF files "J. P. Gilliver" <G6JPG@255soft.uk> - 2026-09-30 01:30 +0100
      Re: Editing PDF files Paul <nospam@needed.invalid> - 2026-09-30 00:26 -0400
      Re: Editing PDF files "Carlos E. R." <robin_listas@es.invalid> - 2026-10-01 12:55 +0200
  Re: Editing PDF files VanguardLH <V@nguard.LH> - 2026-09-29 22:45 -0500
    Re: Editing PDF files "....winston" <winstonmvp@gmail.com> - 2026-09-30 10:23 -0400
    Re: Editing PDF files "Carlos E. R." <robin_listas@es.invalid> - 2026-10-01 13:01 +0200
  Re: Editing PDF files Paul <nospam@needed.invalid> - 2026-09-30 00:23 -0400
    Re: Editing PDF files "Carlos E. R." <robin_listas@es.invalid> - 2026-10-01 13:05 +0200
      Re: Editing PDF files "J. P. Gilliver" <G6JPG@255soft.uk> - 2026-10-01 18:53 +0100
    Re: Editing PDF files "s|b" <me@privacy.invalid> - 2026-10-01 17:40 +0200
      Re: Editing PDF files Paul <nospam@needed.invalid> - 2026-10-01 14:09 -0400
        Re: Editing PDF files Frank Slootweg <this@ddress.is.invalid> - 2026-10-01 18:21 +0000
          Re: Editing PDF files "Carlos E. R." <robin_listas@es.invalid> - 2026-10-01 20:30 +0200
            Re: Editing PDF files Frank Slootweg <this@ddress.is.invalid> - 2026-10-01 18:58 +0000
              Re: Editing PDF files "Carlos E. R." <robin_listas@es.invalid> - 2026-10-01 21:42 +0200
            Re: Editing PDF files knuttle <keith_nuttle@yahoo.com> - 2026-10-01 21:35 -0400
              Re: Editing PDF files "Carlos E. R." <robin_listas@es.invalid> - 2026-10-02 11:56 +0200
            Re: Editing PDF files "s|b" <me@privacy.invalid> - 2026-10-02 16:12 +0200
              Re: Editing PDF files "Carlos E. R." <robin_listas@es.invalid> - 2026-10-02 19:50 +0200
                Re: Editing PDF files "s|b" <me@privacy.invalid> - 2026-10-02 20:57 +0200
                Re: Editing PDF files "Carlos E. R." <robin_listas@es.invalid> - 2026-10-02 21:34 +0200
                Re: Editing PDF files Maria Sophia <mariasophia@comprehension.com> - 2026-10-02 20:19 -0400
            Re: Editing PDF files Chris <ithinkiam@gmail.com> - 2026-10-02 17:54 +0000
  Re: Editing PDF files Chris <ithinkiam@gmail.com> - 2026-09-30 06:53 +0000
    Re: Editing PDF files Chris <ithinkiam@gmail.com> - 2026-09-30 07:34 +0000
    Re: Editing PDF files Andy Burns <usenet@andyburns.uk> - 2026-09-30 13:58 +0100
      Re: Editing PDF files knuttle <keith_nuttle@yahoo.com> - 2026-09-30 09:30 -0400
        Re: Editing PDF files "....winston" <winstonmvp@gmail.com> - 2026-09-30 10:36 -0400
          Re: Editing PDF files Maria Sophia <mariasophia@comprehension.com> - 2026-10-02 06:29 -1100
        Re: Editing PDF files PDF Files <invalid@invalid.invalid> - 2026-09-30 18:17 +0100
          Re: Editing PDF files knuttle <keith_nuttle@yahoo.com> - 2026-09-30 16:07 -0400
          Re: Editing PDF files "J. P. Gilliver" <G6JPG@255soft.uk> - 2026-10-01 01:59 +0100
            Re: Editing PDF files Chris <ithinkiam@gmail.com> - 2026-10-01 06:57 +0000
        Re: Editing PDF files Frank Slootweg <this@ddress.is.invalid> - 2026-09-30 18:26 +0000
      Re: Editing PDF files VanguardLH <V@nguard.LH> - 2026-09-30 13:25 -0500
        Re: Editing PDF files Frank Slootweg <this@ddress.is.invalid> - 2026-09-30 18:39 +0000
        Re: Editing PDF files Chris <ithinkiam@gmail.com> - 2026-09-30 20:26 +0000
  Re: Editing PDF files Philip Herlihy <nothing@invalid.com> - 2026-09-30 10:48 +0100
    Re: Editing PDF files "....winston" <winstonmvp@gmail.com> - 2026-09-30 10:50 -0400
      Re: Editing PDF files "Carlos E. R." <robin_listas@es.invalid> - 2026-10-01 13:11 +0200
        Re: Editing PDF files "....winston" <winstonmvp@gmail.com> - 2026-10-01 13:44 -0400
  Re: Editing PDF files Andy Burns <usenet@andyburns.uk> - 2026-09-30 11:14 +0100
    Re: Editing PDF files "Carlos E. R." <robin_listas@es.invalid> - 2026-10-01 13:12 +0200
  Re: Editing PDF files Ammammata <ammammata@tiscali.it> - 2026-09-30 12:24 +0200
  Re: Editing PDF files Paul <nospam@needed.invalid> - 2026-09-30 16:08 -0400
    Re: Editing PDF files "Carlos E. R." <robin_listas@es.invalid> - 2026-10-01 13:13 +0200
      Re: Editing PDF files Paul <nospam@needed.invalid> - 2026-10-01 09:52 -0400
        Re: Editing PDF files "Carlos E. R." <robin_listas@es.invalid> - 2026-10-01 20:33 +0200
  Re: Editing PDF files Arkadiusz 'Black Fox' Artyszuk <asdfadsasdfa@atomicmail.io> - 2026-10-02 12:41 +0200
  Re: Editing PDF files Maria Sophia <mariasophia@comprehension.com> - 2026-10-02 05:37 -1100

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