XPost: alt.comp.os.windows-11, comp.text.pdf, alt.comp.os.windows-10   
   From: marion@facts.com   
      
   On Fri, 28 Feb 2025 21:00:53 -0000 (UTC), Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote :   
      
      
   >> ... I think collectively we need to update this   
   >> chart of the single best freeware for the stated PDF editing needs...   
   >   
   > I prefer Free software to freeware, myself.   
   >    
   >    
      
   Thanks for the clarification where I see, from your links, that "freeware"   
   is about cost, while "free software" is about user rights and freedoms.   
      
   While I appreciate the gentle word-use admonition, it's kind of like when I   
   ask people to use "lend" as a verb vs "loan" as a noun; or when I notice   
   people using "further" for "farther" in terms of distances; or when people   
   use "less" instead of "fewer" for things that can be counted; or when   
   people use "dirt" when they really mean "soil"; or when they call a "stone"   
   a "rock" when all of these things are actually not what people think.   
      
   But not many people know those distinctions, such as what it really means   
   for two people to be "Platonic", although it's not as bad as when people   
   say "I could care less" when what they mean is the exact opposite feeling.   
      
   Taking your kind advice in hand, I see The key difference between   
   "freeware" and "free software" lies in the concept of freedom, not just   
   cost, in terms of who retains copyright and controls distribution and   
   modification, specifically the freedom to run the program for any purpose,   
   such as to study how the program works and to maybe change it, and maybe   
   even redistribute modified versions.   
      
   I accept your suggestion to keep in mind that free software is often   
   available at no cost, not all software available at no cost is free   
   software.   
      
   With that taken care of to an appropriate level of clarification, what I   
   ask the team at large to help out for, is to flesh out this table.   
      
   What else is needed to be done with a PDF file & which programs do it?   
   [?] Print book format PDF (FinePrint payware)   
   [x] Add or concatenate pages (pdftk, acrobat payware)   
   [x] Add signature (Adobe Reader Fill-and-sign sign-yourself tool)   
   [x] Archive sites (wkhtmltopdf, Acrobat payware,fastone scroll capture)   
   [x] Convert PDF to MSWord or any epub format & vice versa (Calibre)   
   [x] Create PDF new text (Irfanview or Paint.NET plugins + Ghostscript)   
   [x] Edit PDF existing text (Adobe Reader commenting, Acrobat payware)   
   [x] Extract images (PDF Exchange Viewer, PDF Shaper)   
   [x] Fast PDF reader: (Sumatra or Foxit)   
   [x] Globally search & replace PDF text (Libre Office)   
   [x] Merge PDFs (pdfsam, pdftk)   
   [x] OCR, PDF-Xchange, freeOCR (paperfile.net), GOCR (jocr.sourceforge.net)   
   [x] Online shrink PDF https://www.adobe.com/acrobat/online/compress-pdf.html   
   [x] PDF text to audio file (Balabolka)   
   [x] Print sans username in the properties (Libre Office Writer)   
   [x] Remove pages (pdfsam, pdftk)   
   [x] Remove restrictions (Ghostscript & Ghostview with ps2edit & pdfwrite or   
   pdf2djvu)   
   [x] Renumber pages (Acrobat Reader)   
   [x] Reorder pages (mutool)   
   [x] Rotate pages (Acrobat Reader)   
   [x] Shrink PDFs (ImageMagick or Acrobat payware or rlvision shareware)   
   [x] Tile PDFs (i.e., to print large posters) (Posterazor)   
   [?] What other common tasks do you do to edit or modify a PDF file?   
      
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