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AppImage v1.3.7

Looks like you have their marketing blurb, what is it that you like about this tool / set of tools?

CharlesV wrote: ↑Sat Jan 27, 2024 11:15 am Looks like you have their marketing blurb, what is it that you like about this tool / set of tools?

Looks like my adblocker missed that one lol! looks like spam..

It's in the flatpaks tab, so if you don't have it you can install it from there.

The only problems I see is the latest version is either windows or an appimage which is broken in 21.3. The previous version has no appimage, only a deb file, but, looking at the bug fixes between the older deb and the newer appimage, the deb file has too many issues to use. A 'non-starter' to be sure. NightPDF's appimage was updated Nov/23 and works great. Dark Mode PDF Reader built using Electron and PDF.js
github.com/Lunarequest/NightPDF/releases

According to the link, 4 apps, none of which are editors. Great.

Hope you get your ap working in either a current deb file or appimage. Flatpaks are too bloaty to take much stock in. Okular's appimages are ridiculously huge. May as well run the flatpak. Plus neither opens on my laptop like pdf4qt's (cuties for short lol). Okular has an appimage with "full-libs" at almost a gig, which doesn't even open.

figueroa wrote: ↑Sat Jan 27, 2024 4:55 pm According to the link, 4 apps, none of which are editors. Great.

The main function I use is Create Bitonal Document... To read on Kindle, bitonal PDF is better and reduces the size by almost 90%.

davidy wrote: ↑Sun Jan 28, 2024 6:35 pm Hope you get your ap working in either a current deb file or appimage. Flatpaks are too bloaty to take much stock in. Okular's appimages are ridiculously huge. May as well run the flatpak. Plus neither opens on my laptop like pdf4qt's (cuties for short lol). Okular has an appimage with "full-libs" at almost a gig, which doesn't even open.

On MX-23 it works fine. But as the developer uses the latest version of QT, it is difficult to maintain binaries compatible with older versions of Debian. As it is Open Source, perhaps in the future someone can create Forks that are more compatible with older distro versions.

Most MX'rs are still on 21.3 so that's good to know. Seems like Debian11, or is it qt, is getting left behind a bit early. Perhaps the forum needs a specific to MX23 ONLY subforum. Thanks for clarifying and glad I don't need to edit any pdf's qt.

For anyone who does need to edit edit pdf's - Master PDF Editor 4 - is in the MX Package Installer.

handy wrote: ↑Mon Jan 29, 2024 6:29 pm For anyone who does need to edit edit pdf's - Master PDF Editor 4 - is in the MX Package Installer.

This is a closed source application. I am an enthusiast of open source solutions. PDF4QT is still under development, but as it is open source I think it is important to publicize it.

FraterLinux wrote: ↑Tue Jan 30, 2024 7:54 am

handy wrote: ↑Mon Jan 29, 2024 6:29 pm For anyone who does need to edit edit pdf's - Master PDF Editor 4 - is in the MX Package Installer.

This is a closed source application. I am an enthusiast of open source solutions. PDF4QT is still under development, but as it is open source I think it is important to publicize it.

I'm also an open source enthusiast. I'm also somewhat pragmatic.

Same reason I uninstalled it. Not interested and more importantly don't need it to edit anything. Or maybe it was a watermark feature I refuse to look at, can't remember. NightPDF can insert images and text and can draw over whatever is in the doc but I had trouble saving at a certain point and gave up. Plus there is no font options whatsoever so that's kinda sucky when trying to add text. Edit's not the right word more like modify. But if all you need is to fill in the boxes, or add a pic of a signature, it'll do that. Both Okular's way bloated appimages don't run in mx21.3 and don't care to install either when qpdfview, pdfsam, and pdf arranger do all the basics without all the bloat of flatpak acting like you need a second OS.

I still use Xournal for annotating pdfs. The only annoyance is that Xournal wants to save it as a "xdj" file... so I use the print-to-file feature to save the output to a new pdf.

Okular is open source with editing capability. It is a KDE app.

richb wrote: ↑Fri Feb 02, 2024 7:53 am Okular is open source with editing capability. It is a KDE app.

I just did an apt install okular & it brings a lot of new files with it - 180 to be exact. I'm using Openbox on a converted Fluxbox install, so I've got a lot of KDE dependencies that need to be fed.

Even so, the following quote is from apt:

After this operation, 154 MB of additional disk space will be used.

So it looks like installing it the old fashioned way, as opposed to appimages that supposedly use a Gig of space, is a MUCH more storage space friendly solution.

I'm running the latest version of MX, which may or may not be essential to be able to install Okular. I'm going to install it & test it out over time to see if I'll switch to it.

@handyOkular is pre-installed in MX 23 kDE. That size sounds about right.

richb wrote: ↑Fri Feb 02, 2024 6:58 pm @handyOkular is pre-installed in MX 23 kDE. That size sounds about right.

I just opened it, & was really surprised by how quickly it opened, like blink of the eye stuff.

Then I opened a complex pdf copied from the Al Jazeera news website, & it again, opened instantly. I am impressed.

Thanks for bringing it to my attention @richb :)

@handy

You are welcome.

handy wrote: ↑Tue Jan 30, 2024 8:00 pm

FraterLinux wrote: ↑Tue Jan 30, 2024 7:54 am

handy wrote: ↑Mon Jan 29, 2024 6:29 pm For anyone who does need to edit edit pdf's - Master PDF Editor 4 - is in the MX Package Installer.

This is a closed source application. I am an enthusiast of open source solutions. PDF4QT is still under development, but as it is open source I think it is important to publicize it.

I'm also an open source enthusiast. I'm also somewhat pragmatic.

Version 1.4.0.0 in appimage runs fine on the MX-23 (64).

https://github.com/JakubMelka/PDF4QT/releases

Very Interesting!

Firefox now does a great job of Editing PDF's too, you can even draw sigs but I will be interested to see what this app does..

Almost for got about this ap. It's appimage is in the list I use a lot:
https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ivan- ... 86_64-apps
Cool