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Re:Stirling-PDF: local web application to perform various op... by ornornor on Tuesday December 26, 2023 @01:47AM (#38769440)
A web app makes it cross platform. If you have a homelab, deploy it only once for every client.

And PDFtk doesn’t do annotations afaik which is a huge pain point on Linux (at least for me) because there are no applications that I know of to easily do things that are trivial on OSX like adding text or hand drawn signatures to PDFs. Masterpdf can do it but with a watermark and some limitations.

Maybe it doesn’t suit your particular use case but I wouldn’t say pdftk can replace this project.

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Re:Stirling-PDF: local web application to perform various op... by adrenvi on Tuesday December 26, 2023 @02:47AM (#38769676)
Firefox now has some simple built-in PDF editing tools. Text and images can be added on top, but existing text can't be modified.
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Re:Stirling-PDF: local web application to perform various op... by subtra3t on Tuesday December 26, 2023 @03:32AM (#38769911)
I think edge would be perfect for you
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Re:Stirling-PDF: local web application to perform various op... by ornornor on Tuesday December 26, 2023 @08:34AM (#38771617)
Edge the browser?
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Re:Stirling-PDF: local web application to perform various op... by subtra3t on Tuesday December 26, 2023 @09:40AM (#38772134)
Yes, its pdf editor is very good.
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Re:Stirling-PDF: local web application to perform various op... by throwaway2037 on Tuesday December 26, 2023 @10:12PM (#38778694)
Woah. Very cool. Is this something specific to Microsoft Edge, or also available in other Chromium variants, including Chrome?
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Re:Stirling-PDF: local web application to perform various op... by plugin-baby on Tuesday December 26, 2023 @04:56AM (#38770335)
> no applications that I know of to easily do things that are trivial on OSX like adding text or hand drawn signatures to PDFs

Try xournal++

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Re:Stirling-PDF: local web application to perform various op... by jraph on Tuesday December 26, 2023 @05:11AM (#38770397)
Xournal++ was already mentionned, Okular also has annotations and I think adding hand drawn signatures.

Though I welcome (new) work in this area.

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Re:Stirling-PDF: local web application to perform various op... by throwaway2037 on Tuesday December 26, 2023 @10:11PM (#38778688)
Xournal++ is amazing for annotating PDFs. I use it to file taxes where fillable PDFs and e-filing don't work as expected.
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