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.
From what I read Preview is full suite of PDF reader right? If so Okular by KDE seems like a good alternative.
Or GNOME Papers https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/Incubator/papers (still beta)
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?
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.
Plus one for Okular. Fantastic app.