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What is the Best Free/ once off paid for Pdf Editor program

  • 27-07-2023 11:18AM
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    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,626 ✭✭✭


    What is the Best Free/ once off paid for Pdf Editor program.Something like adobe but thats way too expensive 22e every month. Any free program or once off payment program that is as good i am tired off all these fake/free trial ones. I just want to find a good one that is actually good.



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,404 ✭✭✭CelticRambler


    Depends what you want to produce. For quick-and-dirty single page documents, I use OpenOffice and export as a PDF; for more complex publications, I use ancient Serif software that's still as good as the day I downloaded it (DrawPlus and PagePlus). Based on recent positive experience with their alternative to Photoshop, if I was starting afresh, I'd stick with the same stable, now re-branded Affinity, and pay for their Publisher package. https://affinity.serif.com/en-gb/publisher/



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,626 ✭✭✭JamesBond2010


    Aww grand ya thanks just for form filling,sometimes word when it converts it, screws up the formatting & wrecks it then



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,404 ✭✭✭CelticRambler


    Ah right. I think OpenOffice is likely to do the same, and Affinity Publisher is probably way too powerful. For that kind of thing I do use it's predecessor (PagePlus) but only because I have it for producing PDFs from scratch.

    In some cases, it's more how the PDF has been encoded that's the problem with the formatting than Word's limitations. A workaround can be to import the PDF page as a picture and place your filled fields over the top.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,626 ✭✭✭JamesBond2010


    no prob thanks,i think i found a way of doing it i forgot. thanks for your help



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