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   From: marion@facts.com   
      
   On 3 Mar 2025 09:19:35 GMT, G wrote :   
      
      
   > I suppose all are available for Windows, it would be useful to know which are   
   > also for Linux or Mac.   
      
   Here's the Windows software, so far, that I've tested for PDF manipulation.   
       
      
   However, your point about testing Linux/Mac software is well taken, given   
   the c.e and c.t.p newsgroups will have folks on the Linux & Mac newsgroups.   
      
   My history is that I cut my teeth on IBM assembly, cobol, fortran 77, etc.,   
   so I grew up on PDP11, DEC/VMS, SunOS, Solaris, etc., well before my first   
   real Linux (Redhat) & then Centos & Ubuntu, so I agree Linux is important.   
      
   And, in the Silicon Valley corporate atmosphere, long ago we all used the   
   Mac before the dual boot Windows/Redhat became our standard desktop PC.   
      
   Since I always download and test (almost) every suggested pgm, what's   
   needed for me to add Linux would be to dual boot to test these apps out.   
      
   For a long while I dual booted to Ubuntu in the Unity days and as an   
   indirect result, I personally abandoned the dual boot before Unity   
   (thankfully) died (although I had switched the desktop by then to KDE).   
      
   The point of that history being that while I *agree* Linux is important,   
   I'm not going to be who affirms what works and what doesn't, for Linux.   
      
   Likewise, while I have probably more Apple mobile devices than most people,   
   being a substitute teacher has taught me that the Mac isn't designed with   
   anywhere near, oh, shall we say "freedoms", as anything that I'm used to.   
      
   So, while both the Mac & Linux are widely available for PDF manipulation,   
   I'm not going to be the one to flesh out what works & what doesn't on 'em.   
      
   But someone else can take up the banner and run with it, as this is Usenet.   
   Here's a "dir /b" of my pspdf archive on Windows for software to consider:   
    acrobat   
    bullzip   
    calibre   
    cutepdf   
    fileoptimizer   
    fineprint   
    foxit   
    ghoststuff   
    msoffice_save_as_pdf   
    mupdf   
    ocr   
    pdf-xchange_viewer   
    pdf2office   
    pdf_text_to_audio   
    pdfcreator   
    pdfencrypt   
    pdfgear   
    pdfminersix   
    pdfsam   
    pdfshaper   
    pdftk   
    pdfxchange   
    pdfxv   
    poppler   
    posterazor   
    psutils   
    sumatra   
    wkhtmltox   
    wps_pdf2word   
    xpdf   
      
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