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  • To everyone in the thread going “ugghhhh this isn’t what PDF is intended for!!!1!!1!!!”

    Please stop. We know. We all know. It’s irrelevant to this conversation.

    In an ideal world, PDF would be an output only format. Meanwhile, I have to manually apply text to PDFs and paste my signature as an image to file both my Canadian and Quebec taxes. Reality doesn’t care about technical perfection and is run by a bunch of senile luddites.

    A PDF editor is basically a requirement for anyone who files their own taxes here, and it’s a requirement for many, many industries, where they may need to doctor a document whose source is long gone to the winds of time.

    To answer your question:

    • Foxit (wine)
    • Qoppa PDF Studio (native)
    • An older version of Acrobat Pro (Wine)

    GNOME’s papers now supports basic file editing, but no image pasting, which may be required for “”“signing”“” documents (how is this even legally binding? anyway).