Telok
2021-04-29, 02:30 PM
As some here may know I've been editing a pdf book recently. It's mostly done but I'm running into a significant nuisance involving my current software.
The process involves splitting the original pdf into individual pages, editing them in LibreDraw, and recombining them. This process loses everything that isn't straight text or an image. Then, on lunch at work, I can optimize, fix, and clean the file with Adobe Pro. Now I'm at a point that I need to add annotations and do a couple last minor text fixes/spellings. Reworking any pages and recompiling would involve extra hours of re-fixing the pdf, bookmarks, forms, etc.
Issues:
Adobe Pro can't deal with the custom fonts in the pdf. It just cries and whines. On one page I'd like to adjust font size of a heading, and fixing spelling errors looks bad. Plus I only use it at lunch.
Adobe Reader won't do copy/paste in annotations on my home machine. A recurring random issue for years apparently, according to web searches. But it will do custom stamp icons. Also it dosen't do spellcheck.
Okular won't create annotations correctly at all, but it can edit thier text and will do copy/paste. Useful as the annotations currently exist in a text file and Okular does spellckeck.
Therefore:
My current options are spend 4-6 hours to resize a word and fix a typo, add stamps in adobe reader, edit the stamps in okular, finish formatting stamps in adobe reader.
Other software I've tried either can't do custom stamps and text changes, or won't keep the extras like bookmarks & forms intact. Some has turned out to be crippleware that won't save files over a page or file size.
So I turn to the collective wisdom of the playground. Anyone know of a free editor that can annotate with custom icons, deal with a custom font in fixing a typo or two, and not screw up the other bits of the pdf?
The process involves splitting the original pdf into individual pages, editing them in LibreDraw, and recombining them. This process loses everything that isn't straight text or an image. Then, on lunch at work, I can optimize, fix, and clean the file with Adobe Pro. Now I'm at a point that I need to add annotations and do a couple last minor text fixes/spellings. Reworking any pages and recompiling would involve extra hours of re-fixing the pdf, bookmarks, forms, etc.
Issues:
Adobe Pro can't deal with the custom fonts in the pdf. It just cries and whines. On one page I'd like to adjust font size of a heading, and fixing spelling errors looks bad. Plus I only use it at lunch.
Adobe Reader won't do copy/paste in annotations on my home machine. A recurring random issue for years apparently, according to web searches. But it will do custom stamp icons. Also it dosen't do spellcheck.
Okular won't create annotations correctly at all, but it can edit thier text and will do copy/paste. Useful as the annotations currently exist in a text file and Okular does spellckeck.
Therefore:
My current options are spend 4-6 hours to resize a word and fix a typo, add stamps in adobe reader, edit the stamps in okular, finish formatting stamps in adobe reader.
Other software I've tried either can't do custom stamps and text changes, or won't keep the extras like bookmarks & forms intact. Some has turned out to be crippleware that won't save files over a page or file size.
So I turn to the collective wisdom of the playground. Anyone know of a free editor that can annotate with custom icons, deal with a custom font in fixing a typo or two, and not screw up the other bits of the pdf?