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PDF editing help needed please

Posted: Mon Sep 04, 2017 5:04 pm
by Zanteogo
I don't have access to my regular machine and need some quick help, I trust enough people here not to point me in the direction of spy or malware.

I need a windows based program to edit some PDF files, to be more specific to be able to hand (mouse) draw on them.

I have stuff to do this on my normal machine, but am using someone elses right now. Something free, bare bones is fine, just need to sign some stuff.

Thanks!

Re: PDF editing help needed please

Posted: Mon Sep 04, 2017 5:08 pm
by Talvieno
I've relayed your message to IRC, waiting on responses. Does Open Office or Libre Office fulfill your requirements, or am I headed in the wrong direction there?

Re: PDF editing help needed please

Posted: Mon Sep 04, 2017 5:11 pm
by Scytale
Will Gimp do the job?

https://www.gimp.org/downloads/

Also Inkscape,

https://inkscape.org/en/

I don't know how these do for PDF editing but they may help.

Re: PDF editing help needed please

Posted: Mon Sep 04, 2017 5:13 pm
by Talvieno
http://www.techadvisor.co.uk/feature/so ... e-3653069/

There's a ton on that page. Not sure if any of them are appropriate - continuing to look into things.

Re: PDF editing help needed please

Posted: Mon Sep 04, 2017 5:21 pm
by lycurgus
You might have better luck with just adding an image? Mouse-drawing sounds like a possibly-rare feature. If you just need to sign you could use a paint program that supports transparency (such as GIMP, Paint.NET, etc) and make a transparent-background image of your signature, and then just add it to the PDF..

I've never done something like that myself but a quick google reveals a few "add an image to a PDF" websites that will let you do it online - first hit on google was https://www.pdfpro.co/ which seems like it would handle it?

Alternatively I've just opened my copy of Foxit Reader and there's a button for "PDF Sign". Not sure if that's a premium feature or something but might be worth a look?

Re: PDF editing help needed please

Posted: Mon Sep 04, 2017 5:26 pm
by Zanteogo
I got it, thanks people.

(used paint to make signatures and copied it over to the doc using one of the programs Tal listed)

Re: PDF editing help needed please

Posted: Mon Sep 04, 2017 5:31 pm
by Talvieno
:D Glad we could help, Zanteogo!

Re: PDF editing help needed please

Posted: Mon Sep 04, 2017 5:33 pm
by Zanteogo
Also on a side note, this is all my fault, I made the family cottage "mostly tech free"

I have docs the bank needs me and the wife to sign, but no printer, scanner, or computer of any type. Actually doing it on a borrowed laptop with my phone hot spotting the net.

Re: PDF editing help needed please

Posted: Mon Sep 04, 2017 5:42 pm
by Silverware
MS Word.

It doesnt save *actual* PDFs. but you can use the windows PDF printer to produce those if you need to save a PDF.
To just edit one, import it into word.


I don't know why everyone else is giving you silly options.

Re: PDF editing help needed please

Posted: Mon Sep 04, 2017 5:43 pm
by Talvieno
Because he asked for something free.

Re: PDF editing help needed please

Posted: Mon Sep 04, 2017 6:24 pm
by Silverware
Talvieno wrote:
Mon Sep 04, 2017 5:43 pm
Because he asked for something free.
He didn't say legal did he? :V

Re: PDF editing help needed please

Posted: Tue Sep 05, 2017 6:25 am
by lycurgus
I dunno about your copy of Word, silver, but mine (at work) saves PDFs just fine (yes, via save, not via print)....

Re: PDF editing help needed please

Posted: Tue Sep 05, 2017 6:33 am
by Dinosawer
You can do that yes, but you need to download a (free) plugin from the Microsoft website (in some versions at least) to do so.

Re: PDF editing help needed please

Posted: Tue Sep 05, 2017 6:51 am
by Cody
<nods> Back when I had need of MS Office, I used that free plugin for Word.
I don't bother with an office suite anymore - just a basic standalone WP.

Re: PDF editing help needed please

Posted: Tue Sep 05, 2017 12:59 pm
by Silverware
lycurgus wrote:
Tue Sep 05, 2017 6:25 am
I dunno about your copy of Word, silver, but mine (at work) saves PDFs just fine (yes, via save, not via print)....
What it saves is a .docx renamed as .pdf.
I know this because it causes issues on a system I support. :V