Title mostly says it all. Preview is unironically an incredible piece of software. Between feature set and ease of use, I have yet to come across any FOSS that is comparable. Anyone know of a Linux alternative?

EDIT: Due to popular demand I should explain Preview more. It’s a “fully fledged” PDF editor, but somehow it’s completely different from something like Adobe Acrobat. The way most users will interact with it is as a seemingly very plain image viewer, but if you open a PDF you can add fillable boxes, rearrange pages, split and merge PDFs, etc. I cannot place exactly why it’s workflows feel so much better than something like Acrobat.

  • glitching@lemmy.ml
    2·
    18 minutes ago

    gnome sushi (installed by default in gnome) handles the press space to preview file. not a fully fledged editor but still miss the thing in plasma.

  • malfisya@piefed.socialEnglish
    17·
    8 hours ago

    From what I read Preview is full suite of PDF reader right? If so Okular by KDE seems like a good alternative.

    • manxu@piefed.socialEnglish
      5·
      6 hours ago

      Okular is absolutely fantastic. The only thing I am missing is image import, to place my signature on PDF forms, and then it’s perfect.

      Does anyone know if it has that feature and I’m just too dumb to find it?

      • Domi@lemmy.secnd.me
        2·
        40 minutes ago

        It does!

        If you want to actually digitally sign you can add a key in your OS and then go to “Tools -> Digitally sign” where you can choose a background image which you then can drag where you want to have it.

        If you only want your written signature in there, you can create a stamp for it. Click on the arrow beside “Yellow Highlighter” (or whichever tool you have selected) in the top right corner. Select “Configure Annotations” and hit “Add…”.

        Make the type a stamp, give it a name like “Signature” and select an image you want to use. After that save and apply.

        You can now select your stamp in the top right corner and place it anywhere by clicking or dragging over the PDF.

        As a side note, depending on where you live a written signature in a PDF is meaningless at least in terms of legally binding documents.

  • thenose@lemmy.world
    4·
    6 hours ago

    Just to add the noise: I use Sterling pdf which i host and dear god it has so many functions that i never knew existed

    • EtzBetz@feddit.orgDeutsch
      1·
      14 minutes ago

      Yeah it’s very nice. Also discovered this a few months back. Layout of the website is a bit weird at times on low resolutions, but otherwise it’s great.

  • MyNameIsRichard@lemmy.ml
    61·
    8 hours ago

    Dolphin has the information panel which is activated by pressing F11. I don’t know what more mac preview does.

    • Arkhive (they/she)@lemmy.blahaj.zoneOP
      6·
      8 hours ago

      It’s odd because I feel like it gets mixed up, very fairly due to its name, with MacOS “QuickLook”, which is the actual file previewing tool, giving a quick peek into a file by hitting ‘space’ with the file selected. Preview is essentially an image editor, but it doubles, or maybe triples, as PDF viewer/editor and scanner importer. The names are kinda silly tbh.

      • MyNameIsRichard@lemmy.ml
        2·
        7 hours ago

        Ah, so not the information panel then. I don’t know of a single application that does image editing, pdf viewing, and scanning. There are applications for all three individually.