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So I was trying out another PDF reader just for the hell of it, and was confused about highlighting (There was a tool in the ribbon bar that I was too stupid to use).

Instead of looking through documentation, I actually tried to use the built-in AI to see what wisdom it could offer a peasant like me.

On the same subject, are there any open source PDF readers you can recommend?

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[โ€“] taxon@lemmy.world 5 points 2 months ago (1 children)

lol, the PDFgear AI is trash. Although, I would take a second to shout out PDFgear. While I wouldn't recommend using it as a daily PDF reader, it is a kick-ass PDF editor/file converter. It has literally saved me a number of times. While it's not FOSS, it is an outstanding piece of forward.

As for basic a basic pdf reader... Firefox or its forks?

Lastly, FBDC (Adobe)

[โ€“] linkinkampf19@lemmy.world 3 points 2 months ago

Agreed. We've incorporated PDFGear at our workplace for satellite locations that are too small for bundled Adobe packages, and made it available on most employee computers. Solid software for something that would otherwise cost ~$120/head yearly.