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Looking for an acrobat replacement (or source for CHEAP - cannot find gray like win 10 keys...).

 

I've been let go in this recession and our school system has gone full remote. I need to get 4 of us able to edit pdf's. I don't want a subscription and would prefer something that han bring in all pages as opposed to something like illustrator or gimp. Word conversion just garbles everything.

 

Please let me know if anyone has a decent suggestion. I'm willing to pay for a perpetual license (within reason) but for all I know we'll all be back to work and school in a few weeks...

 

Thanks,

joe

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I recommend LibreOffice Draw. It's not as pretty as Acrobat, but it includes most of the features you'll need.

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For microsoft office i just use it's native export to PDF.

You just need to adjust some things, like margins, also preview it before exporting.

The way it works is the same as printing to a paper.

All modern software have it's native tool to export PDF.

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Just now, SupaKomputa said:

All modern software have it's native tool to export PDF.

Generally true, although beware of some proprietary software which will make it a paid feature or watermark the output... I know some do it with export to JPEG, so I imagine there are some that do it with PDF as well.

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Thanks for the ideas, I don't need to export to PDF as much as edit.

 

I looked at foxit and thought it was just a free trial offer, I'll revisit.

 

I'll check out libre draw, I thought it was a single page editor.

 

Thanks for the ideas! Keep them coming if someone catches this. I'll update what works for the wife and kids.

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Running libre, just the common learning curve, the only issue so far is that it breaks the internal page links (for the occasional creator that puts them in).

 

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