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.
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.
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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!
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.
I agree, this is juat bloat. Super useful .to have the utility but in a browser ffs ? Just have an app people can download that you can do it with, I’d for sure use it. They don’t even have native grouped tabs yet, something that a browser should do so start focusing in browser improvement.
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.
