Re: free app to modify pdf files

On 15/06/2025 05:49, sobriquet wrote:

Op 14/06/2025 om 21:17 schreef Marion:

On Sat, 14 Jun 2025 19:57:34 +0200, sobriquet wrote :
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What's the best free app to modify pdf files on android?
So not just viewing a pdf file, but actually making changes in it, like
filling out a form with additional information.
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Thanks in advance for any suggestions!

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I don't know the answer, so I hope someone pitches in with the answer.

I'm curious to know WHY you want to edit a PDF, which was designed as a non-editable end-of-line format.
Did you want to make small changes and re-issue the PDF? Or reformat the whole document to repurpose it?
It's usually MUCH easier to edit the original document and regenerate the PDF.

On the PC I've tried open office with a pdf extension, but that
doesn't seem to work very well, though it might vary depending on
the type of pdf.

Several posters have already explained the difference between a textual PDF (text you can copy and paste) and an image PDF (which contains pictures of pages, and no actual text).

With the pdf that I tried, I wasn't very satisfied with the free online version of ms-word either in the way it handled the pdf.
 I'll give the free adobe pdf-editor webapp a try to see how that works.

Sometimes it works, and sometimes not.
Peter