If you work in the construction design industry, PDFs have become a de facto standard for sharing design notes and markups.
Until then, I need a means to edit my PDFs, and here you come providing a simple and elegant option. I think the ship has sailed until a more superior document "carrying" format is universally accepted by every industry out there. I use Bluebeam at work - some Linux/FOSS types have to realize - yes, the PDF format is supposed to be the "endpoint" format, but we are moving FAR away from that now. It was to simply sign a document with a printed name and my signature without sending that data to some unknown entity I never heard of. I stumbled upon this from a Google search and it DIRECTLY addressed what I needed it for. I feel that basic PDF editing should be free as people need it for their everyday life (they don't edit PDF for fun) It's a project on the side, I have a full time job to pay the bills Software costs money, regardless of the complexity, so the paying part is normal, we have just been used to not paying for software (in exchange for our personal data for example).Īs for why I'm not charging for it, it's mainly for three reasons: The specs for the PDF format (created by Adobe) is now available, and people have also been "reverse-engineering" the bits that are not documented. Hence why everyone charges for every single little thing.
I assumed you had to have some license through Adobe to even create an app to interact with PDFs. There's many ways to display a PDF, so you have to account for all ways to make sure that it works as it should. Long story short, the PDF format is insanely flexible at the expense of a lot of complexity.
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