Question Best Free, Non-Web based, PDF Editors ?

[Dylan Beckett]

Hello

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I'm wondering - what is the best free PDF Editing Software, suitable for Win 10/11?
I'm also interested in paid versions too, but the focus should be on free software.

Note that I'm not so keen on purely Online/Web methods - as they are a big privacy concern when it comes to personal details - for certain types of Documents.

So I'm much more interested in actual software.


I want to do things like: Fill out / Add / Remove - Ticks / Crosses / Signatures, and text in forms - for PDFs, and other formats ?


If you have some suggestions, please let me know.




Thank you for your help

 

[punkncat]

The issue will be the non web based part.

PDF Escape is web based and really decent and full featured.

Dashboard/DocHub has a pretty good one we are getting used to as well. (also web based)

I personally pay for Adobe because I use it so much. There are a few features that I really wish they could copy from PDFE, especially an 'eraser' as sometimes edit in Paint won't work. The only massive complaint I have is that if the pdf comes off of Apple (like Cutie PDF) I have to make a whole new report for mistakes as it won't edit or change anything.

So far as I understand Apple has a few native programs. It would be nice if MS would get in the game.