Submitted 3 weeks ago by EarMaster@lemmy.world to selfhosted@lemmy.world
I am looking for a solution to collaborative PDF editing (mostly annotations). I already have a Nextcloud installation with Office for several members so it would be great if it could be integrated, but it is not necessary.
What I mainly want is the possibility to add and view annotations made by several users on the same file at the same time.
Do you have a suggestion?
I think OnlyOffice supports that. There is an extension for that for Nextcloud.
I have installed OnlyOffice and it seems to work. I need to test it with a few others over a real connection (not just locally), but it seems promising.
I tried that. It opens PDFs in Impress (their PowerPoint) and provides only a very basic annotation interface.
OnlyOffice doesn’t have “Impress”. I think you are confusing that with LibreOffice or Collabora Office.
I think you may be thinking of LibreOffice
will you want version control ?
Not necessary, no.
My team does this, but we collaborate in Markdown, and then one of us converts it into a PDF when we finish.
That’s not an option unfortunately. The actual use case is a non-profit sports club magazine which needs to be proof read by several people at the same time. There is a fixed release date and only a few days to proof read the PDF before it needs to be sent to print.
gedaliyah@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
I can’t attest to any as I don’t use PDFs this way, but here are a few links:
Stirling PDF
PdfDing
BentoPDF
All of these are self-hostable and FOSS. I’m not sure about NextCloud integration.
irmadlad@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
I don’t use PDFs that much either, and often wonder who are these people who use so many PDFs, but I hear raves about Stirling PDF. I thought PDFs were like legacy gen.
N0x0n@lemmy.ml 3 weeks ago
What do youngstar use nowadays if it isn’t PDF? EPUB?
I always wondered, why someone would prefere to read an EPUP instead of a PDF ! Specially Student books, cook books or any other book with images or representations.
Yeah EPUB’s are good for long text stories without any image, but everything else should be in pdf.
kumi@feddit.online 3 weeks ago
You don’t interact much with lawyers and government, I take it?
EarMaster@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
I will look into these, do you know if they support collaborative annotations?
irmadlad@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
docs.stirlingpdf.com/…/Read-and-Annotate/
Read & Annotate is a full-featured PDF viewer that lets you:
Think of it as your digital PDF notepad - read, review, and mark up documents all in one place.
It says it do. Other than that, I’ve never deployed it.