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by pjmlp 1925 days ago
Why bother?

Apparently everyone keeps forgetting that PDFs are editable.
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chungy 1925 days ago
It's really not made to be and with the exception of an embedded file that's actually editable (eg: LibreOffice optionally keeping an ODT version inside the PDF), "editing" a PDF tends to be a disaster of trying to match the layout with whatever text you are attempting to edit.

Certain tools, such as Word and LibreOffice, make it a bit easier as most of the source text is in the document, others like LaTeX end up looking like garbage through machine processing.

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tempestn 1925 days ago
Although if you're just trying to add a bullet point to the end of a list that would often be fairly straightforward.
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1-more 1925 days ago
Does the PDF contain the whole font in such a way that anyone can add text in that font? I ask because I use uw-garamond from the Mathdesign package.
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mcdevilkiller 1925 days ago
It can. You decide if the font should be embedded or not.
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1-more 1924 days ago
Roger dodger. Gonna have to convert everything to vector drawings to be safe.
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