If you just need to combine files, PDF Split and Merge. My mum uses it all the time for merging hundreds of PDFs into one massive PDF and she's a fucking dunce.
PDF editing is damn hard and Adobe fight tooth and nail to keep it so. That said, Mozilla have added PDF editing capabilities to recent versions of Firefox (any released this year) so maybe give that a whirl.
>>28444 Depending on whether or not you consider it to be unusable, earlier this year I used LibreOffice Draw to redact and shrink scanned copies of documents. For text documents, you get to edit the text too.
OP report: PDF Split and Merge (PDFSAM) worked well, but had a trial period.
Firefox had a nice draw and text edit function but I needed to install an extension to actually merge files, which involves uploading documents to the internet before they can be converted (not ideal).
LibreOffice Draw is easily the closest to what I was looking for. The interface isn't slick but it's practical, and I've found I can "merge" documents by just copying over pages from one open PDF to another.
Thanks, lads. Thads.
Sidenote: I did look into torrenting it, but the instructions in some of these ReadMe files were so whacky and opening EliteHackDeezNutz.exe didn't seem like a good idea.
I hope this saves someone a few hours of their time.
>>28444 I know there are some free online ones, ilovepdf.com is pretty good, it handles large files and doesnt watermark files like a lot of the others.
On a tangent but at work we use a paid pdf editor called nitro, just the handful of us in the office need the capability so we buy one off licences.
Before the pandemic they were about £50 for a lifetime licence per user, now they've gone up to about £200 as they've cashed in on the drive towards paperless.
