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Hello,
this very much depends on what you are expecting it to do. In general, PDFs
are only meant to be viewed - and printed - they where never meant for
anything else. Even filling out forms is just s bad hackjob through
JavaScript. That being said, there is software with PDF editing
capabilities on Linux, though it's much more basic than what you'll find on
Windows.

If you want to just make comments, Okular has some neat capabilities,
including signing PDFs. For handwritten notes on a PDF, Xournal++ is a
great tool. If you want to just want to reorder pages, rotate, delete or
add them, there are some tools like PDFSam. There's also the quite powerful
Ghostscript, though that's CLI only. At least I don't know of any GUI. For
more "editing" features, LibreOffice can import PDFs, but in my experience
it struggles quite a lot with layout. OnlyOffice also has that capability,
but I never used it. Also, Inkscape can do that. It can also import
multiple pages at once, but I recommend only importing single pages,
otherwise Inkscape quickly reaches its limits. It has two import modes, an
internal one and poppler. Use the internal one and see if that works for
you. It's easier to edit text boxes in there, but it's quite likely it
won't be able to use the right font, which will break the whole look. The
poppler import can preserve that, but that's because letters aren't
imported as letters but as paths. So you can't just edit text, you'd have
to delete letters and try to insert text in a way that looks decent.

Other than that, there are a few commercial tools, but they are not that
well known. So your best bet is just to try to never have to edit a PDF at
all. Always try to get a hand on the original file the PDF was delivered
from. Even if it's a docx - Microsofts infamous wannabe-open source format
that just nobody can handle properly, including their own software - it
will most likely be better handled by the software you use than a PDF made
editable.

Best
Richard

On Mon, Jun 24, 2024, 07:13 Arbol One <ArbolOne@hotmail.ca> wrote:

> Hello.
> Is there a PDF editor that would work with Debian 12?
>
> Thanks.
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