Title mostly says it all. Preview is unironically an incredible piece of software. Between feature set and ease of use, I have yet to come across any FOSS that is comparable. Anyone know of a Linux alternative?

EDIT: Due to popular demand I should explain Preview more. It’s a “fully fledged” PDF editor, but somehow it’s completely different from something like Adobe Acrobat. The way most users will interact with it is as a seemingly very plain image viewer, but if you open a PDF you can add fillable boxes, rearrange pages, split and merge PDFs, etc. I cannot place exactly why it’s workflows feel so much better than something like Acrobat.

  • _edge@discuss.tchncs.de
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    2 days ago

    Preview is one of the things mac os got right. it’s hard to copy. If you think about it, it does not make sense that a tool called preview that most people use to quickly read pdf (and other) files, is also a lightweight pdf editor, which is often more useful than acrobat or pdfedit or whatever you use.

    It’s not logical. no one will make a clone of it.

    you’ll have to get used to other tools.

  • malfisya@piefed.socialEnglish
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    3 days ago

    From what I read Preview is full suite of PDF reader right? If so Okular by KDE seems like a good alternative.

    • manxu@piefed.socialEnglish
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      2 days ago

      Okular is absolutely fantastic. The only thing I am missing is image import, to place my signature on PDF forms, and then it’s perfect.

      Does anyone know if it has that feature and I’m just too dumb to find it?

      • Domi@lemmy.secnd.me
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        2 days ago

        It does!

        If you want to actually digitally sign you can add a key in your OS and then go to “Tools -> Digitally sign” where you can choose a background image which you then can drag where you want to have it.

        If you only want your written signature in there, you can create a stamp for it. Click on the arrow beside “Yellow Highlighter” (or whichever tool you have selected) in the top right corner. Select “Configure Annotations” and hit “Add…”.

        Make the type a stamp, give it a name like “Signature” and select an image you want to use. After that save and apply.

        You can now select your stamp in the top right corner and place it anywhere by clicking or dragging over the PDF.

        As a side note, depending on where you live a written signature in a PDF is meaningless at least in terms of legally binding documents.

        • manxu@piefed.socialEnglish
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          2 days ago

          OMG you are an absolute legend of a life saver! Thank you so much, I am going to try it out as soon as I get to a computer!

  • glitching@lemmy.ml
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    2 days ago

    gnome sushi (installed by default in gnome) handles the press space to preview file. not a fully fledged editor but still miss the thing in plasma.

  • thenose@lemmy.world
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    2 days ago

    Just to add the noise: I use Sterling pdf which i host and dear god it has so many functions that i never knew existed

  • moistracoon@lemmy.zip
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    2 days ago

    Any Linux distro Edit: guys, chill, when I posted this comment, op was very vague he just said “what Linux can replace macOS” he wasn’t specific. He has adjusted his post but I didn’t see this until just now and I’m downvoted. I totally get it though lol my b