Call me crazy, but hasn’t this been a feature for a while now?
If I remember correctly, it was only possible to add text into pre-existing text fields. With this feature, you can add text (or also scribbles) anywhere you’d like.
And images! With ctrl+v as well! I’m so excited! :D
Perhaps the Arch Linux repo has a “preview” version then, because I was able to add scribbles and text anywhere for many months by now…
To be honest, I couldn’t tell when this arrived. I don’t need to edit PDFs all too often…
Hi, Crazy
I’m not actually sure, I thought it was new because Firefox indicated as such when I updated.
I’m so incredibly hyped for this feature because it means I no longer need to pirate Acrobat! I love reading books on PDF. I once read a non-fiction book and essentially made it into a picture book but with Wikipedia articles and pictures of the artifacts, of places and people. I even added side notes to help with the historical and social context. But it was a painful experience and tired me out after the first and only one.
This means I can simply ctrl+v anything I need into it, both text and images. This is so great, you guise, my heart is filled with joy. Whoever decided this was going to be a great addition to Firefox was completely right. Thanks for thinking of the user! What a great implementation, too.
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But why? There’s no need for a PDF editor in a browser. This is just raising the size and lowering the performance of a browser for a feature that almost no one needs or wants.
Mozilla should probably build a PDF viewer/editor (Adobe sucks and Foxit has gone downhill in recent years), but it’s not part of Firefox.
I actually like this a lot. Why not make computer things easy for people using them? In environments where people send forms as non-editable .pdf files, this is great!
Not needing to pay money just to add some text to a PDF is a very nice feature. Especially since PDFs already open in Firefox by default.
I appreciate this. Previously I had to switch to Edge for a moment just for PDF editing.
I read this and immediately celebrated it as the greatest feature to grace firefox in a while. It’s already my default pdf viewer since it means I don’t have to start up any program to view a pdf, now I also don’t need to do that to edit one.
Editable PDF’s are commonly used around the world, for statistics, beurocracy and application processes. Having a program readily available to edit those is generally a good thing.
It also prevents Adobe from getting downloads, which is an absolute win.
As someone who reads PDFs almost exclusively, you have no idea how handy this tool is for those of us who do use it. Firefox really is leading in this regard for its users and us happy few are so happy right now.
