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yboris on Sept 5, 2023 | parent | context | favorite | on: So you want to modify the text of a PDF by hand (2...

Semi-related(?) - I created a repository to convert PDF to JPG and back to PDF:

https://github.com/whyboris/PDF-to-JPG-to-PDF

A government form didn't have editable fields that needed to be filled out. And editing the PDF was impossible (password protection). This was my solution.

kccqzy on Sept 5, 2023 [–]

On macOS using Preview you can add textual comments on otherwise uneditable PDFs. Then you can simply print the commented PDF as a new PDF.

Converting to JPG unnecessarily rasterizes text and introduces ugly compression artefacts.

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