en	[[!meta title="Editing PDFs"]]

en	Applications included in Tails

en	Several applications included in Tails allow editing PDFs, even when it is not their primary function:

en	[*LibreOffice Draw*](https://www.libreoffice.org/discover/draw/)

en	*Draw* is the graphics editor of the *LibreOffice* suite.

en	With *Draw*, you can open PDFs, remove pages, and change the order of pages. *Draw* is the best option for changing the text of a PDF. You can move around and resize the images of a PDF using *Draw*, but you cannot edit them.

en	[*Inkscape*](https://inkscape.org/)

en	*Inkscape* is a vector-based drawing application.

en	*Inkscape* is the best option for modifying the vector-based graphics included in some PDFs. For example, you can create PDFs with *Inkscape* and edit back the vector-based graphics in *Inkscape*. Editing the text of a PDF with *Inkscape* is possible but cumbersome.

en	[*GIMP*](https://www.gimp.org/)

en	*GIMP* is an image editor for photos, PNG, and JPG images.

en	When you open a PDF with *GIMP*, each page is converted to a layer of an image. You cannot edit the text of a PDF, move overlapping objects, or modify vector-based graphics with *GIMP*.

en	[*BookletImposer*](https://kjo.herbesfolles.org/bookletimposer/)

en	With *BookletImposer*, you can:

en	Reduce the number of pages in a PDF by putting several pages on every sheet.

en	Produce a PDF booklet that can be folded after printing.

en	Applications not included in Tails by default

en	Several other applications can be added to Tails as [[Additional Software|persistent_storage/additional_software]] to work on untrusted or very large PDFs:

en	If you receive untrusted documents, for example, email attachments, [*Dangerzone*](https://dangerzone.rocks/) allows you to convert them into safe PDFs before opening.

en	*Dangerzone* is particularly useful for journalists who might receive dangerous documents from anonymous sources or download them from the Internet.

en	See [[converting dangerous documents to safe PDFs using Dangerzone|doc/persistent_storage/additional_software/dangerzone]].

en	To reorganize the pages of very large PDFs or combine pages from several PDFs, [*PDF Arranger*](https://github.com/pdfarranger/pdfarranger) is faster and more convenient than *LibreOffice Draw*.

en	You cannot modify the content of pages using *PDF Arranger*.