Brilliant video. Quick, complete advice and smooth presentation. I feel I’ve been introduced to the very best options out there. And not only that, I also got a test drive. You’ve saved me so much time and effort and I can’t thank you enough. Checking out your other content and subscribing.
The reason I stop using Adobe acrobat reader, is that they almost make it impossible to turn the view, which is something so simple it should be standard. It used to be an option in the view tab (both directions). Now it is only one direction in the context menu. Super annoying when dealing with drawings. So thank you very much for sharing. I just installed Sumatra which I already like, very simple very compact and with both the CW and CCW view rotation option in the menu bar.
Thanks for that, I've been looking all day. Found a few online that I thought had worked then they wanted me to subscribe if I wanted to download the result. When you mentioned Libre Office Draw, which I already had downloaded, problem solved. Thanks a million.😀
Super vedio work... , clear video, well explainedand clear voice.. One of the bestnuts and bolts video pictures I have seen on the internet (since 1997) . Well done ....Well said. I will check these out Thank You - LK .
Thank you very much for introducing LibreOffice draw and sharing what you have learned. Your video answers my question about PDF file editing for free. Thumbs up 👍
When it comes to editing a PDF I have had some success using Libre Office Draw. Its a little quirky at first but after you get it down works great. It will open a PDF and save it as a Draw file for easy modifications and it will allow you to export to a PDF. One other plus its free and works great in Linux.
Thanks to you, Adrian, I learned today of Okular. Definitely, in my view, the best PDF reader and editor. Besides it loads PDF files real quick. Very neat software.
If you are doing a lot of document scanning. Acrobat is the best for Batch processing from my own experience in production work. If you're doing little scanning any pdf apps that supports scanning will work fine.
This was really awesome. Draw was really helpful for me as I was not able to edit a 217 page pdf , this was very simple with the option of find and replace all as I had to replace one wor draft from all 217 pages.I am using Sejda, but it does not support more than 200 pages. I used I love pdf as well, but it does not have option to replace all. Awesome Adrian, thank you very much
I use Acrobat Pro 11 (stand alone) to do scanning of documents to save as a PDF (smallest file created at time, very compressed). I have also use the program to scan forms to create editable documents. As you mention it can be pricey and they don’t offer stand alone version anymore I believe. I have not found any alternative that works as good as version I am using thus far, but no further updates it is so old. Should you have other software options let me know to check it out. I am using an Epson 4400 scanner for the documents and it does a good job directly from within Acrobat Pro to do a custom scan and from there it will bring up the Epson scanning software interface. Thanks for the video!
great video mate. cheers. do you know of any PDF readers that enable menu's options/ allow you to click to a certain page number? I ask because .... I currently have an APP that is too expensive to maintain...so I was trying to see if there is an interactive PDF reader on phones that can take the APP's place? any tips/ ideas? cheers. ro :-)
Great video! I absolutely did not know Draw would work with pdfs. @Micheal Wright , finding a good solution for working with scanned documents would be great also. We have a lot of old scanned documents at work that could use touching up without having to completely retype them.
i like libre...but it has a problem with selection i want to select only images and delete certain thing....its just so hard to do it in that app...i cant find a good free one..i found wodershare pdfelement but the water mark ruins it
Thanks for a very good, informative video. I use Nitro pdf (a paid, but very solid program that makes it essy to merge pdfs and edit in other ways). I might try Libre Office Draw now. Thanks again.
Hi @adrian i run a documentation services and here is my issues. 1i have just a max available space of 2mb to upload on the site wether i have 30 documents or just 1 i have to fit it into 2mb. All of these documents are mostly PDFs files i need to convert to picture format reduce the size till all 30 docs fits into 2mb space upload i have. Q. How do i make my job easier amd with what tools ? Any fast and user friendly conversion tools to help migrate a large pdf docs to pictures format?
One of the things I do a lot with a PDF editor is extracting a range of pages to a separate document (fat 19th c. book from Internet Archive: take out a chapter and distribute it to a few people.) Does Draw do that? I find PDF-XChange Editor is good for that, and a lot of other things I do (like putting comments on a PDF), even though the interface isn't the prettiest; the free version is good enough for my needs. Windows only, but.
If I understand correctly, it does but not as cleanly as PDF X-Change. You would have to print the document. When the print screen comes up, (im assuming you are on a windows device) select Microsoft Print to PDF. Under that you can select your range and then click print. Save it where you want.
@@AdrianReddix Ahh, nifty. I had a quick look, and I think LO Draw looks great for PDFs created from a file, so you have the text incorporated in the PDF: I mostly work on PDFs created by scanning from old books (out of copyright versions of texts I want), and it doesn't look quite as convenient for that. But it would be great for in the office, whether that office is Libre or not (most aren't). Thanks for the info.
@@michaelwright2986 That's good to know. I didn't think of scanned text and how that would fair in the programs. I appreciate the experiment. It really got my gears turning.
Thank you immensely Adrian! I tried further after reading your response and found stupidly, that I had to page down! Now Office Libre is my favorite PDF editor!!! Was sad and now happy!!!
I would suggest opening the image and go to print settings and select printer called Microsoft writer (or something similar), select that u want the file type PDF then u press print and it should ask you where to store the pdf file and press Print to have it done....
I need something to rearrange pages, delete and add pages and merge PDF documents. Do you know of a free or inexpensive one that does those things? Thank you!
I apologize, I just saw this. Pdfsam might be the program for you. I would caution you about the install. I have a video about how to do it. I thank you for the comment and please let me know how it goes.
Thanks, very helpful! I think it's pronounced the same as the word "ocular" though, just spelled with a "k" instead. (Meaning having to do with eyes or vision.) So...AWK-yoo-ler.
Not much. There is a way to install it via Linux but it's complicated. The best thing in my experience for Chromebook is Google Docs and the Google equivalent. If there is a certain feature you need that's on LibreOffice, there might be an app that can address this issue. It is not ideal, but it can work.
There are a couple of apps that I have heard of but I haven't used any of them. Xodo and Foxit (I've used the desktop version and it's good) are the ones that come to mind.
Hey! Adrian.. Editing PDF with Firefox, but it takes an hour to load and page loading is slow, cache everything cleared, tracking blocked but it's happening. And another anoying thing is I m only erasing and removing extra and overlaping sentences, adding nothing to it. Yet PDF size increasing everytime. Doing this on off-campus web, it let's under 50mb PDF to edit for free. Help me.
I'm guessing this is some type of extension for Firefox. I'm not aware of Firefox having native PDF editing. If it is an extension, I would try another one to see if the performance issue resolved. If that does work, I would try pdfescape.com if you need a web based solution. It's not perfect but it works. If you have the room, LibreOffice Draw is a good alternative. I hope this helps.
just a bit of info Okular is not pronounced with long O at the beginning...it begins with OCC short O sound with the k being pronounced as hard C...thus it begins OCC...the ular is pronounce long U, Ulare...OCCUlar...all together is is ocular like the Eye or vision!!!
I'm looking for a free pdf reader that can index or bookmark parts of the pdf for quick viewing and creating a "table of contents"... It's been difficult finding a pdf reader with this functionality.
After 2 months using Adobe Acrobat at $20 per month, Adobe CHARGED $90 CANCELLATION FEE! Outrageous!! I will never buy any Adobe product for the rest of my life.
LibreOffice Draw... Seems it doesn't work well with diacritics... I opened a pdf document with this program and all Ă, â, ș etc characters are displayed in a strange way, totally unusable. Any ideas? Otherwise, as I said, it is unusable.
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Thank you for Okular! After years of annoying experience with Adobe PDF, this is such a great alternative!
Glad that I could help.
Brilliant video. Quick, complete advice and smooth presentation. I feel I’ve been introduced to the very best options out there. And not only that, I also got a test drive. You’ve saved me so much time and effort and I can’t thank you enough. Checking out your other content and subscribing.
Bruh. Ive had libreoffice installed for a few years, and never bothered to check office draw lmao. thanks, i love it.
I'm glad I could help. I definitely appreciate it.
SumatraPDF I have on Linux Ubuntu 23.10 and it works. Thank you for the tips.
I just installed Okular and it seems to work great, THANK YOU!
Cheers
The reason I stop using Adobe acrobat reader, is that they almost make it impossible to turn the view, which is something so simple it should be standard. It used to be an option in the view tab (both directions). Now it is only one direction in the context menu. Super annoying when dealing with drawings. So thank you very much for sharing. I just installed Sumatra which I already like, very simple very compact and with both the CW and CCW view rotation option in the menu bar.
Thanks for that, I've been looking all day. Found a few online that I thought had worked then they wanted me to subscribe if I wanted to download the result. When you mentioned Libre Office Draw, which I already had downloaded, problem solved. Thanks a million.😀
Online based become subscription based...
Free is how they hook you initially..
Super vedio work... , clear video, well explainedand clear voice.. One of the bestnuts and bolts video pictures I have seen on the internet (since 1997) . Well done ....Well said. I will check these out Thank You - LK .
this video saved my life getting projects done for school thank you so much!!!!
I'm glad I could help. Thank you very much for your kind words.
good day how do i use pdf with tables on okular and do i use it to print a document vai printer cord not wireless
We need an update with an UPDF review.
Great video btw.
Thanks for Okular. I've been searching for an adobe acrobat replacement that really fit my needs.
Thank you very much for introducing LibreOffice draw and sharing what you have learned. Your video answers my question about PDF file editing for free. Thumbs up 👍
Thank you very much. I am glad I could help. I greatly appreciate it.
When it comes to editing a PDF I have had some success using Libre Office Draw. Its a little quirky at first but after you get it down works great. It will open a PDF and save it as a Draw file for easy modifications and it will allow you to export to a PDF. One other plus its free and works great in Linux.
You are 100% correct. I appreciate you sharing your experience. It truly helps us all. Thank you.
Thanks to you, Adrian, I learned today of Okular. Definitely, in my view, the best PDF reader and editor. Besides it loads PDF files real quick. Very neat software.
If you are doing a lot of document scanning. Acrobat is the best for Batch processing from my own experience in production work. If you're doing little scanning any pdf apps that supports scanning will work fine.
That's a good point. Kinda like professionals need professional tools? I appreciate that.
Great video!
All the programs mentionned in this video are the top ones, you don't need to search for other alternatives.
Thank you very much. I appreciate it.
wooooooooooooow!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Thank you very much for this information. I learned something new, especially about Libre Draw. You saved me money.
Trying to look up PDF editing software mostly seems to being up ads rather than useful info, thanks for the helpful video!
You're welcome. That's what I'm here for.
This was really awesome. Draw was really helpful for me as I was not able to edit a 217 page pdf , this was very simple with the option of find and replace all as I had to replace one wor draft from all 217 pages.I am using Sejda, but it does not support more than 200 pages. I used I love pdf as well, but it does not have option to replace all. Awesome Adrian, thank you very much
THIS CHANNEL IS GOLD
I appreciate that. Thank you.
I used to use adobe, Thanks for the suggestions
I appreciate that. It's nice to have people take a chance on something new.
I have LibreOffice installed but did not know it could edit pdf. Thank you!
Obsolutely amazing video, here in Brazil is out of question to pay US15/month to use a PDF editor... Thanks for the tips bro!
Thank you for the video, SumatraPDF seems to meet my simple needs.
libreoffice is the one I was looking for :). Thanks
the LibreOffice Drawing hack is insane ! Thank you so much, I was getting mad with Adobe
Glad I could help.
Cool apps. Well done and thanks for posting!
This is ever-green content, thank you very much sir.
Honestly, That was my goal. I appreciate the kind words.
I use Acrobat Pro 11 (stand alone) to do scanning of documents to save as a PDF (smallest file created at time, very compressed). I have also use the program to scan forms to create editable documents. As you mention it can be pricey and they don’t offer stand alone version anymore I believe. I have not found any alternative that works as good as version I am using thus far, but no further updates it is so old. Should you have other software options let me know to check it out. I am using an Epson 4400 scanner for the documents and it does a good job directly from within Acrobat Pro to do a custom scan and from there it will bring up the Epson scanning software interface. Thanks for the video!
I don't but that's a good one to research. I appreciate that.
@ Thanks for the response! Merry Christmas!
Does it have Redact?
Which one?
Great video - nicely presented, and seriously useful content.
Thank you very much. I appreciate it.
Thank you so much 🙏🏿 Okular is doing wonders
Glad to hear it.
I like linkscape. Very nice.
Thank you.
Great video bro, I had libre office but didn't know that it can edit pdfs ❤
Thank you, I appreciate.
This was super useful - Thank you!
Great video. Liked and subscribed. Keep them coming.
Thank you very much.
Thanks Adrian! Very helpful to know LibreOffice Draw edits PDFs.
My pleasure! Thank you for watching
Hey, I appreciate this... I too left adobe for Affinity and needed a PDF reader. Thank you!!
Thank you very much. I appreciate the kind words.
Such good information, thank you. Sumatra is just as you described, light and easy. Thank you
You are so welcome! I appreciate it.
do more of this!! this is amazing
Thank you. I appreciate the encouragement.
Awesome info and video!!! Draw is so much better than PDF Escape for editing PDFs!!!! Thank you so much!!
Great video. Thanks a bunch my dude.
great video mate. cheers. do you know of any PDF readers that enable menu's options/ allow you to click to a certain page number? I ask because .... I currently have an APP that is too expensive to maintain...so I was trying to see if there is an interactive PDF reader on phones that can take the APP's place? any tips/ ideas? cheers. ro :-)
Any mac pdf to epub converter , focused on dark mode you can suggest
thanks for the tips, very helpful :)
Thank you very much. I appreciate it.
Great video! I absolutely did not know Draw would work with pdfs. @Micheal Wright , finding a good solution for working with scanned documents would be great also. We have a lot of old scanned documents at work that could use touching up without having to completely retype them.
Thank you. The scanned document issue has me intrigued. Researching is one of my favorite things to do.
great video
direct to the point
thanks
Bro! it's Amazing You solved my problem! Thanks!!!
Thank you. I'm glad I could help.
thank you for ur recommendation sir :)
i like libre...but it has a problem with selection i want to select only images and delete certain thing....its just so hard to do it in that app...i cant find a good free one..i found wodershare pdfelement but the water mark ruins it
Thanks for a very good, informative video. I use Nitro pdf (a paid, but very solid program that makes it essy to merge pdfs and edit in other ways). I might try Libre Office Draw now. Thanks again.
Thank you so much.
Awesome video bro! Thanks a lot!
Thank you very much
Thanks Adrian 4 tips, how can I set up Libra to scroll thru Categories in a Online Desktop Law Book,it has 1049 pages🤔
Thank you,this helps me greatly. My windows freases. I need a pdf editor for lunix. You just solved my problem 😃
I'm glad I could help. Thank you for watching. I appreciate it.
Foxit Phantom pdf Business (Foxit Phantom pdf pro now)is my pdf editor of choice.
That's a pretty solid one actually
Can you use Libra office draw for timesheets and signatures?
If this is too late, I apologize. You can but without a drawing tablet signing using a mouse is a little difficult. It's possible.
Hi @adrian i run a documentation services and here is my issues. 1i have just a max available space of 2mb to upload on the site wether i have 30 documents or just 1 i have to fit it into 2mb. All of these documents are mostly PDFs files i need to convert to picture format reduce the size till all 30 docs fits into 2mb space upload i have.
Q. How do i make my job easier amd with what tools ? Any fast and user friendly conversion tools to help migrate a large pdf docs to pictures format?
Having trouble with deleting several paragraphs and moving up from one page to the the previous where I deleted paragraphs. Any ideas? Adobe.
One of the things I do a lot with a PDF editor is extracting a range of pages to a separate document (fat 19th c. book from Internet Archive: take out a chapter and distribute it to a few people.) Does Draw do that? I find PDF-XChange Editor is good for that, and a lot of other things I do (like putting comments on a PDF), even though the interface isn't the prettiest; the free version is good enough for my needs. Windows only, but.
If I understand correctly, it does but not as cleanly as PDF X-Change. You would have to print the document. When the print screen comes up, (im assuming you are on a windows device) select Microsoft Print to PDF. Under that you can select your range and then click print. Save it where you want.
@@AdrianReddix Ahh, nifty. I had a quick look, and I think LO Draw looks great for PDFs created from a file, so you have the text incorporated in the PDF: I mostly work on PDFs created by scanning from old books (out of copyright versions of texts I want), and it doesn't look quite as convenient for that. But it would be great for in the office, whether that office is Libre or not (most aren't). Thanks for the info.
@@michaelwright2986 That's good to know. I didn't think of scanned text and how that would fair in the programs. I appreciate the experiment. It really got my gears turning.
Apparently LibreOffice DRAW is your choice for a PDF editor. Does it support "find" function to allow keyword searching ? If not, what does ? Thanx.
Thanks! I tried Office Libre Draw and it only opens one page of a multi page PDF. Sad!
I'm not sure why that happened. When I open a multi page PDF, I see all the pages. Is there a pages panel on the side?
Thank you immensely Adrian! I tried further after reading your response and found stupidly, that I had to page down! Now Office Libre is my favorite PDF editor!!! Was sad and now happy!!!
@@drof2th I'm glad to hear that. I'm excited I could help. Thank you for coming back and letting me know how it went. I really appreciate you.
I was using Libreoffice and I was trying to do some edits on insurance card yet the page doesn't appear anymore! Which is very frustrating
Thank you for this!
are these apps able to convert Jpeg to pdf as well??
I would suggest opening the image and go to print settings and select printer called Microsoft writer (or something similar), select that u want the file type PDF then u press print and it should ask you where to store the pdf file and press Print to have it done....
Thank you bro you help me so much 👍
No problem at all. Thank you for watching.
@@AdrianReddix you're welcome 🤗
How can I repair a corrupt PDF file? Another word, what software from Adobe can repair a corrupt PDF file? TY
I need something to rearrange pages, delete and add pages and merge PDF documents. Do you know of a free or inexpensive one that does those things? Thank you!
I apologize, I just saw this. Pdfsam might be the program for you. I would caution you about the install. I have a video about how to do it. I thank you for the comment and please let me know how it goes.
Thanks, very helpful! I think it's pronounced the same as the word "ocular" though, just spelled with a "k" instead. (Meaning having to do with eyes or vision.) So...AWK-yoo-ler.
ok, thanks for that input.
my Chromebook zip compressed and it said LibreOffice is not supported on Chromebook and when I tried to unzip it, it will not open. what can I do?
Not much. There is a way to install it via Linux but it's complicated. The best thing in my experience for Chromebook is Google Docs and the Google equivalent. If there is a certain feature you need that's on LibreOffice, there might be an app that can address this issue. It is not ideal, but it can work.
All I need to do is just download the PDF. I don’t see that option. Anyone help
EXCELLENT VIDEO!!!
Thank you Thank you Thank you Thank you
Question...say I had a document I scanned and uploaded to my phone and I wanted yo change some words is there any app that can do that??
There are a couple of apps that I have heard of but I haven't used any of them. Xodo and Foxit (I've used the desktop version and it's good) are the ones that come to mind.
Nice video bro👌❤
Thanks for that
How come you didn't talk about foxit? Last I checked they have a free reader that is pretty decent and a one-time fee editor program as well.
hi i want to learn how to edit from the start im all ready for you to tale me through pls
Thank you for sharing!
Thank you for watching
Hey! Adrian.. Editing PDF with Firefox, but it takes an hour to load and page loading is slow, cache everything cleared, tracking blocked but it's happening. And another anoying thing is I m only erasing and removing extra and overlaping sentences, adding nothing to it. Yet PDF size increasing everytime. Doing this on off-campus web, it let's under 50mb PDF to edit for free. Help me.
I'm guessing this is some type of extension for Firefox. I'm not aware of Firefox having native PDF editing. If it is an extension, I would try another one to see if the performance issue resolved. If that does work, I would try pdfescape.com if you need a web based solution. It's not perfect but it works. If you have the room, LibreOffice Draw is a good alternative. I hope this helps.
Is there one with the ability for me to edit and lock with password ?
just a bit of info Okular is not pronounced with long O at the beginning...it begins with OCC short O sound with the k being pronounced as hard C...thus it begins OCC...the ular is pronounce long U, Ulare...OCCUlar...all together is is ocular like the Eye or vision!!!
Ok
all I want to do is add my personal bookmarks and combine pdfs together.. but 15 $/a month is way expensive for me.. !!
Good reviews
Can you combine pdf's in Draw?
Technically, yes. it is a very cumbersome process. I wouldn't recommend it but it is possible.
@@AdrianReddix ty!
Okular is really nice.
It really is. I like it a lot.
I'm looking for a free pdf reader that can index or bookmark parts of the pdf for quick viewing and creating a "table of contents"... It's been difficult finding a pdf reader with this functionality.
I'm not quite sure. Let me do some research and see what I can find.
Are you sure Okular is not a play on the word ocular and pronounced that way like a homophone?
I'm not sure of the pronunciation but does that change the way the program functions?
thank you from Egypt
Thank you for watching. I greatly appreciate it.
@@AdrianReddix you deserve more ❤❤
Do you know of any way to have more than 50 PDF's open at the same time?
I'm sorry I don't.
@@AdrianReddix Thanks for responding!
After 2 months using Adobe Acrobat at $20 per month, Adobe CHARGED $90 CANCELLATION FEE! Outrageous!!
I will never buy any Adobe product for the rest of my life.
do these support dark mode
Some of them do, but most of the time Open Source is light mode.
I've tried mine but it doesn't edit 😢😢
Which program are you using?
thank you so much
You're welcome!
Hey friend Great content !👍🏾
Thank you very much. How are you and how is everything going?
@@AdrianReddix I’m good I’m well thank you for asking you’ll be seeing or hearing more of me 😂
@@Lovingoddess28 you have an open invitation to talk to me anytime.
@@AdrianReddix always thank u
yeah, work!!!
Adrian: "So let's get into the pdf editors. The first one is gonna be Inkscape..."
Me: Say no more
Thank you for the vote of confidence.
thank you
LibreOffice Draw... Seems it doesn't work well with diacritics... I opened a pdf document with this program and all Ă, â, ș etc characters are displayed in a strange way, totally unusable. Any ideas? Otherwise, as I said, it is unusable.
Yeah, Draw has its limitations. I haven't seen Draw handle diacritics well.
Gracias
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