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If you want to use Master pdf editor (which is a good choice) you really need the older 4.6.1 version (not one of the newer releases, since many functions do not function in the newer free version):

fredx181 added it to BusterDog repo sometime back:

http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewto ... 14#1061628

https://doglinux.github.io/busterdog/amd64/
https://doglinux.github.io/busterdog/i386/

You do get an 'upgrade message' on startup, which you should just ignore.

LibreOffice can also be used to edit pdf, but personally I always use Masterpdf 4.6.1

wiak

dancytron wrote: ↑Sat Oct 10, 2020 3:44 pm Wiak said in other thread"

If you want to use Master pdf editor (which is a good choice) you really need the older 4.6.1 version (not one of the newer releases, since many functions do not function in the newer free version)

See my post here, viewtopic.php?p=31697#p31697

01101001b wrote: ↑Sat Oct 10, 2020 7:39 pm

dancytron wrote: ↑Sat Oct 10, 2020 3:44 pm

Wiak said in other thread"

If you want to use Master pdf editor (which is a good choice) you really need the older 4.6.1 version (not one of the newer releases, since many functions do not function in the newer free version)

Yeap, I'd come to that same conclusion. Best version is 4.xx. Version 5.xx is worthless in comparison.

Yes, I made a 'typo' above; I meant version 4.3.61 as others confirm.

Just as an additional note - that 4.3.61 version also seems to work fine using Qt5, at least in WDL_Arch64 where I use (needed) Arch packages sane, qt5-base and qt5-svg:

pacman -Sy sane qt5-base qt5-svg

I have the tar.gz version of masterpdfeditor 4.3.61 untarred into /mnt/sda2/000portable_apps/master-pdf-editor-4 folder on my system; then I make a copy of its desktop file into /usr/share/applications, and modify that to point to where I stored it's files as follows:

[Desktop Entry]
Name=Master PDF Editor 4
Comment=Edit PDF files
Exec=/mnt/sda2/000portable_apps/master-pdf-editor-4/masterpdfeditor4 %f
Path=/mnt/sda2/000portable_apps/master-pdf-editor-4
Terminal=false
Icon=/mnt/sda2/000portable_apps/master-pdf-editor-4/masterpdfeditor4.png
Type=Application
Categories=Office;Graphics;
MimeType=application/pdf;application/x-bzpdf;application/x-gzpdf;

Works thus fine with Qt5 for me (I don't have Qt4 libs installed on my system).

Having said the above, I do think a more fully portable (e.g. sfs) version that includes qt4 libs is way to go for the future since no guarantee it will work with future versions of Qt.

I have 2 question: Does the work (PET) presented by @bigpup have restrictions?

...older, supposedly less restricted...

If so what are they?

Is there some other reason I would not want to use the OP's PET in QT5? For example, is navigation bad or are new features not worthy or ...

Thanks in advace. Curious

Clarity wrote: ↑Wed Jul 21, 2021 6:00 am

I have 2 question: Does the work (PET) presented by @bigpup have restrictions?

...older, supposedly less restricted...

If so what are they?

Is there some other reason I would not want to use the OP's PET in QT5? For example, is navigation bad or are new features not worthy or ...

Thanks in advace. Curious

Sorry, I can no longer provide the many occasions when newer than version 4.3.61 masterpdfeditor is restricted in functionality since after testing the pretty rubbish later versions long ago I didn't of course keep them. But it really is (not at all 'just supposedly'). Many of the menu items that work fine in 4.3.61 are not active in these newer versions such as bigpup posts about in first post of thread - you need paid version to activate the blocked out functions. Otherwise, stick with older 4.3.61, which remains very functional indeed (and remember that older 4.3.61 masterpdfeditor version will work with Qt5 libs instead of Qt4 libs, as I mention in my previous post).