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Hi - anyone know a decent, free, PDF editor, where I don't have to sign away my soul to use it? I've got one small doc to add a signature too...

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I use the DocHub website for this purpose, costs nothing - not sure if any souls were signed away though... have used it for this for years after failing to find local software I could run on Linux to do the job to my liking (speed and ease being my primary liking.)
thank you - will check it now
Sadly thats a sign your life away site... I tried another - simpli - says it's free. Waits till you've uploaded and edited your doc. Then makes you sign up for an account. Then says you have to pay. And then you can't delete your account.

Exactly what I was trying to avoid!

Good job I'm not world emperor.. there would be special punishments for folks who do this stuff...
yeah, I suspected that might be your issue. I used DocHub for business purposes, it's definitely free for something like 5 documents a month and doesn't need a credit card or anything, but you do have to make yourself an account. I used to do it with the work Google account since everything was thus signed away to Google anyway lol. Now I just use a burner email if I need it, but obvs that's of limited function if you're uploading personally identifiable info anyway lol!

IIRC the other way was to open it in Inkscape or maybe Gimp, I think one of them does it, but it was very clunky and I couldn't be arsed with the hassle.
Yeah - exactly. I think it is free. But I go to some lengths to keep my spam down and this stuff obviously opens it up completely!

Hey ho.

It can wait till I am home next weekend, and the old printer, sign, scan will do just fine.

Thanks for your help though - appreciated.
yes, every time you give away an email address you're inviting it alas! And even the best intentioned sites can get hacked and lose data, have seen that happen several times over the years.

I'm lucky to run my own domains and email server so everything I sign up to gets it's own email address and the moment it starts getting spam it all goes in the can. But that's extreme measures.

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There is an ancient app for Android called Pen & PDF. Not supported and will only run on an old phone but could solve a one off task for you.
thanks - I’ll check it. I’ve got an old phone
Ah look at that! Sadly - I'm an apple lad and it's Android! Love the interface on the web page though!
You can write annotations on a PDF using Preview on a Mac?
PDFgear is a really good fully featured PDF editor. the downlaod is reasonable small and its simple to use for most tasks.
they also have a suite of online editors that can edit pdfs as well if its only a one off.

link : pdfgear.com
That online editor very nearly got me there! But you can't upload a signature picture... But thank you!
you should be able to.
I'm using a desktop browser, phone interface may be different, but the steps I used are below

open ur pdf, select "add or edit form fields" (2nd icon, top right)

select "add signature" ( pen icon ) - choose add signature option

click on pdf where you want signature to appear, adjust the box if needed.

click the x on the top right to close form editor,

click signature box you added and then upload. you should be prompted with file explorer to upload a image.
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It was the last step I couldn't see! I'll try again. Many thanks.
Done it! Many thanks,
I would like to know this too. I was never able to find any good softwares for this everyday task for years.
Apparently you can used #LibreOffice

https://www.geeksforgeeks.org/how-to-edit-pdf-in-libreoffice/

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I use the built-in PDF viewer in Firefox, which I can also use to scribble a signature etc.