@LinuxTorvaldIsGod I know that #GTK is very popular among developers on the #Linux platform, but isn't it possible to find alternatives for all of these applications [1]?
The #KDE / #QT ecosystem also has excellent applications (#Krita, #LibreOffice QT, #KDEnlive, #Shotcut, #QGIS, #DigiKam, #OBSStudio, #Friction, #PDF4QT, ...). There are many #Electron-based applications (#Chromium, #RStudio, #Slack, ...) and those applications using other toolkits (#Blender, ...)
If you mean actual PDF editing (without the need to import from or export to PDF), then there is only one open source project:
#PDF4QT https://flathub.org/apps/io.github.JakubMelka.Pdf4qt
This is an actual PDF editor. For smaller tasks, there are several apps for reading, highlighting, marking, commenting, reshuffling of pages etc.
If you also consider a #PDFEditor which is not open source, then there is #Qoppa #PDFStudio . It is very comprehensive and similarly powerful as Acrobat: https://www.qoppa.com/pdfstudio/
@prokoudine Are you aware of the PDF editor PDF4QT? It's maybe something for the Libre Arts update. It is a relatively new open source PDF editing application with a variety of advanced features (including editing of PDF content, e.g. changing text).
It was released (v.1.4 with editing capabilities) a few weeks ago, but Flathub was just updated now:
https://flathub.org/apps/io.github.JakubMelka.Pdf4qt
https://jakubmelka.github.io/
Can anyone help to create a Flatpak?
It's about PDF4QT, an open source PDF editor, and the developer Jakub asks if anyone can help creating the Flatpak: https://github.com/JakubMelka/PDF4QT/issues/212#issuecomment-2494572018
#QT #KDE #PDF4QT #Flathub #Flatpak #Opensource #floss #PDFeditor #PDF #Linux @FlatpakApps @flathub @kde @qt
Open source #PDFeditor. Jakub Melka released #PDF4QT 1.4, the first version that is able to edit text, graphics within a #pdf
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...it doesn't know that the axis description 1,2,3 of a figure are related (to itself and the figure).
The more complex way of conversion is the recognition of PDF content streams (as Jakub Melka implements in #PDF4QT) which allows to identify a text paragraph (instead of just a single line) and objects that are in reference to each other (e.g. a figure and its coordinate system).
Is my understanding correct wrt the difficulties of PDF conversion to e.g. Inkscape?
@[email protected] FYI, here the developer of #PDF4QT #Jakub_Melka explains his work on the editing of #PDF streams (images, text) and the progress in this regard:
https://github.com/JakubMelka/PDF4QT/issues/42#issuecomment-2083375691
@chiraag I'm making a list of all my software. Most of the Windows only stuff is rarely used, so can sit in a Windows VM.
The exception is my PDF editor, the paid version of PDF-XChange Editor. It is great for quickly assembling docments from other pdfs. What do you use for PDF editing?
Is #pdf4qt as good as it seems?
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