Comment by aucisson_masque

24 days ago

Ugly as hell, can't make light edit like remove or add page, compress pdf.

It's all free in macos preview app and it just works.

No one want to spend 30 minutes looking for website that allow to compress pdf because it's a slightly too big to be sent through email...

The Books app is even better! But a programmer it's just as quick to run shrinkpdf in a Linux terminal, and, well, more ascetic.

I do think Sumatra PDF is good for Windows software, it's not bloated and it's fast.

  • > it's just as quick to run shrinkpdf in a Linux terminal, and, well, more ascetic.

    certainly, but 99% computer user never ever opened the terminal. And even then, good luck rotating page 4 of by 270° using terminal, then inverting it with page 5 and filling the form.

    Things that would take 5 seconds on preview.

    • true, until someone hooks up Linux to an LLM and being CLI driven it would have no problems doing this & more (Also, I think PDF viewers can do that well in Linux too, I only use a minimal viewer so I don't know)

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