PDF Studio Viewer vs (Spac)emacs with pdf-tools

It GUI is user friendly and well designed with its ribbon menu. It's actually very similar to what you can find in a MS Word or Adobe Pro environment. It has all the features you can imagine for commenting/marking the PDF, creating forms, and editing PDF files. It is available on all platforms: Windows, MacOS, AND LINUX.

They are actively looking for ways to improving their products. For example, they made some improvements in PDF Studio 2018 after a PCWorld review came out in 2017.

PDF Studio Viewer is the only free PDF viewer for Linux that recognized digital signatures from docusign in a way that lets you easily verify the signatures.

PDF Studio Pro is a really useful PDF editor. This is more like Adobe Acrobat earlier versions, in terms of look and feel. That’s user friendly. Command icons are clear with tooltip already written. Menu is elaborated well break-up. Also, all the functions seems to be available.

I was looking for a decent alternative to Acrobat, as it was the last thing my dad needed to make the switch to Linux. Tired of paying per month for proprietary software I wouldn't actually own, I went on a quest to find multi-platform PDF editing software. Unfortunately, it isn't FOSS, however, the license is owned in perpetuity and you are helping out lesser known devs who've made a great product. Pros * All of the features needed for the average acrobat user. * Edit, merge comment, measure, tools suitable for both basic users and more advanced Acrobat veterans. * Speed. Even in a VM using a paltry 1 GB of ram, I was able to merge multiple documents and watermark effortlessly. I generated a study guide from handwritten notes in seconds. * Create from the scanner is incredibly useful. * Multiplatform compatibility

It'd be nice if a FOSS source viewer were out in front here, but sadly not. It would be even nicer if PDF and Adobe's dead hand hadn't become the standard doc format. but sadly we have to live with this.

The easiest software I found for printing multiple pages on Linux Mint. All other software require inputting pages by numbers, here, you can just select the ones you want to print, choose the format of multiple pages (horizontal/vertical) and it all comes with a beautiful gui. I used to love adobe and foxit on windows, but those programs suck on linux.

Being a Emacs plugin you can use elisp to customize, script and extend pdf-tools.

Occur creates a list all lines matching a regexp or string in one or more pdfs and allows easy jumping between them. Really helpful when searching long documents like datasheets.

Although installing requires little more work than stand-alone readers, pdf-tools is very easily installed via Emacs 'list-packages' or even easier as a layer in Spacemacs

Uses emacs or vim-style navigation (via spacemacs/evil. Shortcut overview via transient state "SPC m .")

Notes can be exported automatically to and backlinked from an external org notes file using the org-noter or interleave package.