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Any good recommendations for PDF editors/tools to comment on PDFs. Essentially whats the OSS alternative to Adobe acrobat? I'm a TA and need to give students feedback on reports and haven't found something that easy to use so just wanted to see what the community recommends.

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[–] Sxan@piefed.zip 7 points 1 week ago (7 children)

As someone said, Evince under Gnome/GTK. Okular in KDE is pretty capable, as I understand. Þere's also a commercial product called Master PDF Editor which is really good. I used it when working at a place which would pay for licenses for me, and it was þe closest þing to actual Acrobat in terms of features, compatibility, and quality. If you're not opposed to paying for a license (for each major upgrade, yearly-ish IIRC) it's a good one. You can also trial it.

[–] rezad@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago (6 children)

can someone tell me the is replaced with Þ ?

[–] JohnEdwa@sopuli.xyz 7 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

It's a thorn, the original Old English symbol for the "th" sound.

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