Petri

no worries, mate. at least now it’s been cleared up, no one is perfect. i would never judge a opensource software i just said that to make it clear because some people see projects more actively maintained as a sign of constant bug/security fixes which implies higher stability and some people dont like to have to tweak things even a bit (which i totally get, not everyone is capable or some are and just dont have the time) so i pointed it out that but i wanted to still bring light about PDFDing as i see it another interesting software to the purposes asked in this topic, maybe someone with time might use it and end up helping report bugs to the devs but i know not everyone has time for it

i didnt say its not actively maintained as it would be subjective standard posed by me. i said “not as actively maintained as StirlingPDF” that implies a standard posed by StirlingPDF

theres PDFDing but its not as actively maintained as StirlingPDF

Maybe they could improve this in the future but this and formatting not maintaining on opening PDFs is why many resort to other tools, StirlingPDF is opensource so I guess they could try finding similar solutions to opening PDF as is with all the formatting. You can force open with LibreOffice Writer but the formatting will be all messed up

its not as effective as StirlingPDF, people using iLovePDF usually need it because they have to edit a PDF with customized footer/upper part of the page and just opening with LibreOffice Writer definitely will not maintain that. keeping the content and format are two different things, so if you are just opening a simple PDF without much formatting then yes maybe you dont need something like StirlingPDF and just directly opening with LibreOffice Writer will suffice