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  • My recommendations are Firefox, Okular, Inkscape and Draw, depending on usecase.

    Firefox is perfect for text-based markup (so higlighting, defacing with text, etc.)

    Okular is a bit worse on the text front (doesn’t support editing the markup - for most stuff your only option is to undo so you have to be strategic abput catching mistakes early), but it does more stuff (boxes, arrows, lines, transparency, custom colors).

    Draw is better if you actually want to make changes to many pages at once and don’t care if it messes up formatting a bit.

    Inkscape is ideal if you want to rearrange stuff on a few pages and change things like colors or stamp on some text. It doesn’t have a nice way for highlighting text, but highlighting stuff like drawings, etc. is easier (just draw a recrangle with 30% opacity). Unlike Okular, changes aren’t baked in and unlike Draw, it’s easier to play around with colors and opacity.


  • 2nd this. It is by no means a “PDF Editor”, but it works surprisingly better than most.

    Inkscape also could be a good option in OP’s case because it gives options about janking up text. It can either try to find the fonts from those on your system, or it can change every glyph into a path.

    That being said, I’ve treid both Inkscape and LO Draw, and I’ve had more luck with Inkscape in regards to keeping fonts similar. In 90% of cases (and I do have to fix up PDFs every now and then) the “Keep text” option doesn’t jank up text.









  • Get something that does not work being forced down your throat.

    Honestly, it’s not just that.

    Digital services have this terrible trend to get downgraded because some designer decides something like

    Well, having 10 buttons is too much, we should have only 4 buttons. We should also make the UI 5x more clumsy (although they’d call it ‘beginner-friendly’)

    Ai is very similar, except it’s an exec throwing tantrums to slap AI onto something, which wastes company resources and makes the product either more or a lot more worse than before.