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Dapeng Ni

What are the challenges you usually face when using PDFs?

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Valdis Takeris
Edit, copy paste, sometimes also character encoding.
Dapeng Ni
PDFs are great for file sharing yet it's challenging when you need it to edit it. Not sure if I can face my product link here, but PlatoForms can help you convert your PDFs to fillable forms.
Maciej Cupial
Editing pdfs is a nightmare.
Asha Waterhouse
Hello Dapeng! I create marketing design for corporate projects daily. The CEO of the company I work for loves to reiterate, change & modify designs frequently; which normally wouldn’t be an issue but when there are multiple revisions days or weeks apart it becomes quite difficult to manage. I create these artworks in Photoshop. Each page is exported as a Print Quality PDF. Then I’ll use a free web-based PDF tool to merge, rearrange, compress & save the document. It’s a process that has successfully delivered work to this client for the past 3 years, but it’s convoluted and painful to keep up with the changes.. TL;DR : A software with the capability to design (similar to Photoshop/Pea) that could also manage PDFs (similar to Acrobat) would be a game changer for designers like me. P.S. If you’d like me to show you my process in greater detail I would be happy to record a loom with more commentary.
Dapeng Ni
Wow! Image editing when it comes to PDFs are still a challenge nowadays. Thank you for sharing this, the tool that you're expecting is a nice idea.
Steeve
@ashawaterhouse Hello, do you create static or dynamic PDFs ?
Shai
One of the key problems is to convert the PDF into any required format without any change in the content. For eg., Converting a PDF to a Word document has a lot of changes in the converted file like spacing and stuff.
Qudsia Ali
Unfortunately, free PDF editing is not possible. To get the "editing" function, you'd have to utilize a platform like Adobe Acrobat or other expensive PDF editing tools. This is a significant drawback of the PDF since it makes it difficult to make adjustments.
Dapeng Ni
You can try https://www.platoforms.com/. I hope it helps! This is the product that I first launched here at PH.
ravenga harmon
Hi Dapeng! My boss always asks me to edit PDFs, which was very difficult for me before. I need to take notes, sign, and sometimes crop out the PDF. But most PDF editors or readers charge for these features! Recently I was learning PDF editing skills online when I came across an article about a completely free PDF tool PDFgear(https://www.pdfgear.com/how-to/h...). I followed that post to edit a PDF and it worked really well! The operations are very simple, all editing tools are free! It also can handle PDF conversion and compression, I hope you all have a try!
Vanshika Chaturvedi
PDFs are stubborn!!! You cannot edit them, in most cases if you try to copy and paste-spacing issues occur, they are not adaptive to your screen size and orientation but still we use them every day!!!
vicky Tsin
Editing PDFs across platforms used to be a great challenge for me. It wasn't until the emergence of UPDF Editor that I found a solution to tackle this challenge. UPDF Editor(https://updf.com/updf/) is a versatile and powerful PDF editing solution for macOS, iOS, ipadOS, PC and Android users, it is an AI-powered PDF Editor that supports to read, annotate, edit, sync, convert, encrypt, sign, organize, translate, summarize and explain PDFs. I can modify my PDFs across PC, Mac, Android, and iPhone.