So…yeah, I know about the ragebait. So…my gf is testing the waters with Linux, moving away from Mac. I have a cute Chuwi Minibook X laptop in which I installed KDE Neon for her, with a bit of a Mac theming. Could have chosen ElementaryOS, but ah well.
At any rate, her pain point is ADobe Acrobat, which she uses constantly to edit PDF files in all sort of ways, adding pictures, cutting/pasting parts on other PDFs, modifying paragraphs and changing the arrangements and so on… I’m having a bit of trouble making it run on Wine/Lutris/Bottles, and I’d like to know if there’s any other alternative that could cover some PDF editing properly in Linux. Any suggestions?


Another program you can try that no one has mentioned yet is Scribus. You will need at least version 1.5 to be able to open PDFs properly. Be aware that it is a desktop publishing program (analogous to InDesign if you’re looking at the Adobe family), so there are likely to be differences in the workflow.
(The method of absolute desperation is, of course, to install a Windows VM just to support that one program while you wait for the RFEs you filed against the piece of software that’s closest to being useful for her to be dealt with.)