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submitted 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) by Bad_company_daps@lemmy.ca to c/opensource@lemmy.ml

Any good recommendations for PDF editors/tools to comment on PDFs. Essentially whats the OSS alternative to Adobe acrobat? I'm a TA and need to give students feedback on reports and haven't found something that easy to use so just wanted to see what the community recommends.

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[-] zdhzm2pgp@lemmy.ml 4 points 6 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

Master PDF Editor is one of two proprietary apps I currently have running on my laptop, and I would definitely say it's worth the price (although once in a while when they update they manage to mess something up, but will usually get around to fixing it eventually).

This was quite a long time ago, but I had a lot of issues with Okular, though I don't remember what exactly (one thing was that if you changed a document's location, Okular would lose all the bookmarks you added to it, but they may have changed it since then, IDK). Evince's commenting features seem a bit rudimentary to me, but I've only used the one from the Mint repo, so there may be a newer version that's better.

There's also PDF4QT which is open source, but is kind of new and may be a bit rough around the edges, although it does look promising.

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