Acrobat equivalent for gentoo [CLOSED]

natrix · Guru Joined: 23 Aug 2013 Posts: 556

Exist in portage any powerful PDF editing software like Acrobat Professional for Windows in Linux? I would like to merge, split, annotate, comment, make markups in the PDF files I use.

Thanks!

The Doctor · Moderator Joined: 27 Jul 2010 Posts: 2678

okular? KDE package so KDE deps. I think it does everything you want. Defenetly one of the most powerful opensource readers around.

Of course, you could just use app-text/acroread straight from Adobe. It has the best PDF support of any Linux pdf tool. I think it is the only complete solution for pdfs.
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natrix · Guru Joined: 23 Aug 2013 Posts: 556

Okular is very good, but I cann't extract, change the sort or add page to the pdf. I use PDFjam and PDFtk in parallel, but it are unconfortable.

tclover · Guru Joined: 10 Apr 2011 Posts: 516

The OP want a tool to manipulate PDF... saying a powerfull tool like the pro version of Macromedia(TM). You might look at pdftk which is very a powerfull tool a la UNIX way, meaning command line tool in contrast to the GUI you're talking about. Second, a *powerful* and *minimal* viewer would be mupdf with out standing rendering. Again, the GUI is simple, however, the VIM like key-bindings are really a WIN point to not loose your time with a mouse.
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natrix · Guru Joined: 23 Aug 2013 Posts: 556

Ok, I'd like a very simple PDF editor to change the sort of pages of the document with a "drag and drop" how acrobat. Exist it?

EmaRsk · Apprentice Joined: 07 Sep 2004 Posts: 158 Location: Italy

app-text/jpdftweak
app-text/pdftk (if I remember correctly, the GUI is Windows-only, but see below)
http://pdfchain.sourceforge.net/ (GUI for PDFtk)
https://wiki.gnome.org/Apps/PdfMod
app-text/qpdf (command line only, no GUI, but easy to use)
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natrix · Guru Joined: 23 Aug 2013 Posts: 556

Thanks everyone for their recommendations.

I'll try all

Freeky · Posted: Thu Sep 03, 2015 3:36 pm Post subject:

Hi, natrix!
Also You can try app-text/pdfshuffler - GUI app that can merge or split pdfs and rotate, crop and rearrange their pages.

Fitzcarraldo · Posted: Thu Sep 03, 2015 8:46 pm Post subject:

EmaRsk, thanks for mentioning PDF Chain, which I had not come across before. Here is an ebuild for app-text/pdfchain-0.4.4, with full credit to franzf for his pdfchain-0.3.3.ebuild:

natrix · Guru Joined: 23 Aug 2013 Posts: 556

All soft are good!! I choose PDF-Shuffler because is more simple to my "short-head"

Thanks everone!!

kernelOfTruth · Posted: Wed Sep 09, 2015 1:40 pm Post subject:

try

app-emulation/wine + PDF-XChange Viewer

or

app-emulation/wine + PDF-XChange Editor

that's the best so far for me,

there's another proprietary software natively available for Linux (free) but I can't remember its name
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