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[-] Blackmist@feddit.uk 51 points 1 year ago

PDF is not a format designed for editing. It's an export format designed to be a middle ground between a word processor and a printer.

You can bastardise extra layers onto it, but that's about it.

But sometimes you need to edit it. Checking boxes. Signing things. Changing numbers so you can lie about things.

[-] postmateDumbass@lemmy.world 16 points 1 year ago
[-] melpomenesclevage@lemm.ee 2 points 1 year ago

What's wrong with forgery?

[-] nexguy@lemmy.world 11 points 1 year ago

It was designed for that but not really marketed to be used that way so it's thought of as a lockable universally supported document format.

I mean, you can pretty much completely edit a pdf with Acrobat. Delete elements, move them around, edit text. It may not be designed for it, but it's very much possible.

I gotta admit I've done it a few times because I was to lazy to recreate old, lost templates, so instead I just copied the pdf and edited it with new text and data.

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