![]() PDF manipulation tools on Linux are sorely lacking, and have been for a good decade+. ![]() That link you provided is a list of alternatives to PDF-XChange Viewer, which I’m going to assume is far from equivalent to the Pro version. It also happens to be my electronics test and measurement bench by adding my MSO to it. This leads my customers to not want a linux version, even home rolled, to be used in fear of warranty/support issues.īut that doesn’t stop me from using it for development where I can, and for making CADD drawings or for making technical manuals, or training courses, or designing control systems. Plus the OEM’s that make the hardware have invested LARGE in the MS version of their libraries, and don’t consider it a priority to support a Linux version. Thus there is no real incentive to develop Linux versions of the software. I still have a laptop specifically just for those instances since the hardware I connect to is not used by lot’s of people/organizations. I have unfortunately been forced to use it for most of the devices I use at customers sites due to proprietary systems normally. I stopped using windows as my personal OS when Linux became available back in the early 90’s. I sometimes use Gimp, but mainly phone based editing for quick and dirty stuff, but for the real work, the photos I am most proud of, I use Darktable and I couldn’t imagine using anything else. If you shoot mainly in RAW, then give Darktable a try for a few weeks and you may be surprised by the results as you become comfortable with the software. There are also some pretty cool Linux tools for Astrophotography such as Siril for stacking, and I keep promising myself I will spend some time getting to know Astropy. When I say decent camera, its a Lumix G80, five years old now, but its lightweight for climbing mountains, lenses are affordable and it works well with a 15cm second-hand telescope. I was already a full time Linux user when I bought a decent camera, so I never became “comfortable” with the more sophisticated Lightroom tools, and learning Darktable has been a “hobby” as much as the photography. Ignoring Astro, my style is very “film-like”, I often try to copy the “Leica film” style and Darktable is a great tool for this. 95% of my photography is in RAW+JPEG (even on my phone) and I find Darktable does pretty much everything I need (mainly Astro and landscape, some portraiture and cityscape).
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