Making a PDF that's larger than Germany

Re:Making a PDF that's larger than Germany by peter_l_downs on Thursday February 01, 2024 @11:44AM (#39217934)

If it makes you feel any better, Preview is by far the best PDF viewer and editor (I use it for signatures and adding text) I've ever used. I like that the PDF previews in Finder are instant and accurate. I like that it shows as much PDF and as little UI/menubar as possible. I like that it never asks me to upgrade or log in. The search tools work well. I can stitch PDFs together (if I google how to, always forget) and pull certain pages out as their own files.

For all of the PDFs I've ever encountered, Preview has been sufficient and capable. Thank you for your hard work!

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Re:Making a PDF that's larger than Germany by amluto on Thursday February 01, 2024 @12:56PM (#39218962)

And somehow Acrobat (current paid version from Creative Cloud) is the worst PDF form filing option.

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Re:Making a PDF that's larger than Germany by B1FF_PSUVM on Thursday February 01, 2024 @01:11PM (#39219170)

> If it makes you feel any better, Preview is by far the best PDF viewer and editor

Seconded. At least most pleasant to use for most things, and never balked at anything I needed to see, fortunately.

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Re:Making a PDF that's larger than Germany by JKCalhoun on Thursday February 01, 2024 @04:29PM (#39221710)

I thought Acrobat had ugly UI — stacks and stacks of toolbars for example (this, BTW, about a decade ago — I haven't launched Reader in some time so can't speak to the current UI).

I met one of the engineers from Adobe and said as much — as politely as I could. He said, yeah, we're modeling our UI on Office.

I saw in an instant that they wanted to be seen as a peer, a co-tool, to the Microsoft suite and it all made sense to me.

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