Between Okular for reading and quick edits, and the qpdf cli for occasional stranger (particularly encryption-related) things, I can’t remember the last time I touched Acrobat. On macOS, Preview.app (with occasional qpdf) also works very well.
Run "qpdf --help=topic" for help on a topic.
Run "qpdf --help=--option" for help on an option.
Run "qpdf --help=all" to see all available help.
Topics:
add-attachment: attach (embed) files
advanced-control: tweak qpdf's behavior
attachments: work with embedded files
completion: shell completion
copy-attachments: copy attachments from another file
encryption: create encrypted files
exit-status: meanings of qpdf's exit codes
general: general options
help: information about qpdf
inspection: inspect PDF files
json: JSON output for PDF information
modification: change parts of the PDF
overlay-underlay: overlay/underlay pages from other PDF files
page-ranges: page range syntax
page-selection: select pages from one or more files
pdf-dates: PDF date format
testing: options for testing or debugging
transformation: make structural PDF changes
usage: basic invocation
Between Okular for reading and quick edits, and the qpdf cli for occasional stranger (particularly encryption-related) things, I can’t remember the last time I touched Acrobat. On macOS, Preview.app (with occasional qpdf) also works very well.
I self host Stirling-PDF for complicated tasks, and use native MacOs app Preview for easy tasks
https://www.foxit.com/pdf-editor/
Sumatra
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On linux I use qpdf
example; to keep pages 1-9 and 26-end of the original file input.pdf and save them to outputfile.pdf:
reduce pdf file size converted a 16mb file to 1mb reductionqpdf --help
Run "qpdf --help=topic" for help on a topic. Run "qpdf --help=--option" for help on an option. Run "qpdf --help=all" to see all available help.
Topics:
For detailed help, visit the qpdf manual:pdftk