You want free, but not ads? Open-source has couple of answers, but probably not such all-in-one solution you are looking for I'm just annoyed that everything is a subscription now. If anyone has any suggestions, I'd love it. Any photo editing I do is just basic cropping/other random stuff, but the point is that I purchased the program a while back and it works, maybe I should have purchased acrobat at the same time haha. I purchased it back in 2007, and it has been installed on every pc I've had. Some of you may find this funny, but I still use Photoshop Elements 6. I believe the price for a 1 year subscription is around $16, which seems like the deal of a century, but its still a subscription, maybe this is just the way to go. I used it to join some documents together, it worked fine, but got annoyed with the pop up ads, so I uninstalled it. Worked for my needs, and I still use it, and of course theres a bunch of other open source programs I use, but no pdf editor. There was no way I was going to pay that, but after some googling I found Open Office. Whats the reason for this? Is it just because the pdf is a format made by Adobe? A decade ago, when I was living on my own, I remember seeing the price of the Windows Office Suite. I really am confused as to why there seems to be no fully functioning open source pdf editor. I thought about purchasing a physical copy of Acrobat X on ebay, that seems temping, but I'm not sure how long/if will work for, maybe that is my solution. Maybe I'm still stuck in the past, but I'm just surprised I can't buy a program for $60ish, sure miss those days. You can pay for it per month for (I think) about $24, or $14 per month but with a 1 year commitment, or you can apparently purchase it outright for around $450. Recently I was just going to purchase Adobe Acrobat, but I realized that its sort of only available on a subscription basis. Preferably I'd like a free program, but would not mind paying for it, but I definitely don't want to have a subscription.

pdf file, and I cant for the life of me find a program that will do it effectively. There's times that I just need/want to edit a.

I need help finding an alternative to Adobe Acrobat, and was hoping someone here could give me some insight.

Alternatives to adobe acrobat x