Is there any Adobe Acrobat DC/Pro-like PDF reader application in Linux?

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  • xournalpp

    Xournal++ is a handwriting notetaking software with PDF annotation support. Written in C++ with GTK3, supporting Linux (e.g. Ubuntu, Debian, Arch, SUSE), macOS and Windows 10. Supports pen input from devices such as Wacom Tablets.

  • Sign: => If you mean add what looks like a graphical signature, then xournalpp, but if you mean a "digital signature", that's something that is still not well supported on Linux; okular can do it, but getting the necessary certificate is a pain.

  • pdfshuffler

    Discontinued A simple pyGTK utility to merge, split and rearrange PDF documents

  • Page organization => If you want a gui, you could use pdfshuffler or pdfsam, though I usually use command like tools like qpdf (or pdftk, stapler, pdfjam, or even ghostscript).

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  • pdfsam

    PDFsam, a desktop application to split, merge, mix, rotate PDF files and extract pages

  • Page organization => If you want a gui, you could use pdfshuffler or pdfsam, though I usually use command like tools like qpdf (or pdftk, stapler, pdfjam, or even ghostscript).

  • calibre

    The official source code repository for the calibre ebook manager

  • Export to PNG, JPEG, Word, Excel => For the first two you could use gimp, though I usually use pdftoppm and/or imagemagick convert from the command line. I try not to convert to Word; that's going against the grain, but the few times I've had, I've use calibre's ebook-convert. I gather LibreOffice has gotten much better at importing PDFs in recent years as well.

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