In an effort to escape the tyranny of printers, users have fully embraced PDF documents, but with them comes the need to edit them. Being a "distribution" format, PDFs are not very cooperative, and we usually need an additional tool to modify their content. At NeoTeo we have explored several of them, but the truth is that Firefox has a basic PDF editor that works quite well.
The same story is repeated thousands of times: the user receives a PDF document, the user must fill in fields or modify certain details, the PDF cannot be edited, and the user curses in every direction until finding an appropriate tool. Previously we have studied options such as PDF24 Toolbox, PDFTool, and even a variant of PDFgear with artificial intelligence. However, not many users know that Firefox has a PDF editor that also works offline.
How to edit a PDF file in Firefox
The first step is to drag the PDF into the Firefox window, and that will open its viewing tool. In the upper right corner you will see six icons: Highlight, to mark important things, Text, with color and size options, Draw, to add freehand elements, Image, to inject photos or art, Print, and Save.
Now, a trained eye will quickly notice that the editor cannot modify existing text. The main role of this PDF editor is the injection of annotations, but with a little creativity (for example, adding an image with the same background color over the text you want to erase), advanced edits are certainly possible.
So, we just have to ask one question: why doesn't Mozilla promote this editor more aggressively? I am a Firefox user, and honestly I found out about the PDF editor by chance. The idea of turning browsers into "everything-apps" is not always good, but if the plan is to fill in a birth date on a document, this works very well and saves us an extra download.
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