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LibreOffice wee (lemmy.dbzer0.com)
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[–] 1 point 11 months ago (6 children)

in what circumstance does pdf editing come up regularly?

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  • [–] 1 point 11 months ago (1 child)

    Banking is very PDF heavy, and many of these PDFs have a ton of logic baked into them. Some of the loan documents do literally all of the math for you so the loan officer just inputs the amount, term and APR and the PDF outputs a fully-filled loan document. Its pretty magical to see until you peek under the hood at the code and oh-my-god-what-the-hell-how-did-this-ever-work-in-the-first-place-this-must-be-purgatory

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  • [–] 1 point 11 months ago* (3 children)

    I frequently download book and journal article PDFs, scan books myself, and upload them online. And ofc read them.

    Editing the PDFs in my case includes e.g. adding the outline/bookmarks that allow for easier navigation, adding OCR, cropping, splitting and rearranging the pages when the scanned images aren't ideal, removing watermarks...

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  • [–] 2 points 11 months ago (2 children)

    that sounds like actual typesetting work! i'm very surprised that you don't get access to the source. usually when uploading to a journal they want the latex source.

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  • [–] 2 points 11 months ago (1 child)

    I'm not uploading to a journal. I upload stuff e.g. to Internet Archive. When I download stuff from various databases (journals, academic repositories, Google Books), it ranges from recent publications to stuff from several centuries ago, in which case a scan is all you can get.

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  • [–] 2 points 11 months ago

    so in that case i'm guessing it's mostly just pdfs as containers for a series of images. that's frustrating. there should really be a better format for that kind of thing. cbz is the simplest i can think of but that doesn't really allow the same amount of metadata.

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