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[–] dansity@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

you can but it has many other issues as it is not a PDF reader. It has no bookmarks, every PDF is opened editable so if there are shapes or text you can accidentally move them, there is no continuous scrolling through a document it is divided into individual pages. PDF is simply not solved on linux at the moment.

[–] t0fr@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Does your PDF Reader and PDF Editor have to be the same application?

[–] dansity@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 1 year ago

No. I rarely edit PDFs. I sign them, bind them, reorganize pages, comment on them. I was an adobe x user then a foxit reader guy on windows, there you can do it all. There is a foxit reader for linux with fraction of the features and have crashed for me constantly (back to my original point that multi OS developments have inferior linux version) Ideally I would prefer a single software to manage my PDFs just like for example I prefer a single software to play my different format of videos.