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Editing PDFs contents
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this post was submitted on 03 Mar 2026
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Others have already explained about PDF not being easy to edit and lack of FOSS tools.
The only advice I can give is that PDF XChange editor works well under Wine if you have it.
Thanks I've never heard of them and I'll check them out.
IMHO it's the best PDF editor out there, idk why Adobe is considered the standard PDF software when it's so terrible compared to PDF XChange. XChange editor has every possible tool I ever needed, you can move around objects, change text, move and rotate and crop pages etc. It's just so good. You can't even edit text in adobe acrobat properly because it will break the text layout, in XChange you can if you're careful with fonts, spacing, indents etc.
It's miles ahead of adobe acrobat and works in Linux as well, I know it's proprietary and pursists will hate me but it's my go to tool when I need to do anything serious with PDF in both windows and linux.