A good pdf editor is what I’m still looking to replace withiht having to deal with Wine. If PDFxchange made a proper Linux port, I’d buy a new license and migrate from windows.
Onenote is something id like a better replacement to because I hate it, but I haven’t found a replacement despite trying several of the options. PDFxchange could be my replacement for that though if it was ported.
I am looking for a PDF editor which has support for digital signature. There are some which perform add a gpg signature, but clients want to see the green tick that Adobe provides. That’s why I have a internet-less Windows 7 VM having only Adobe Reader and Filezilla.
Have you tried using LibreOffice Draw? It works pretty well for editing PDFs. Just make sure you have all of the fonts that the PDF uses before opening it.
I use Trilium Notes as my OneNote replacement at home. I don’t use it religiously, but it’s helpful for basic stuff and seems pretty feature rich if you need that.
I primarily use it with a drawing tablet to annotate PDFs during meetings. I’ve been shifting towards just directly using PDFxchange for the purpose though since it makes it easier to send after meetings and I can directly edit the pdf still. It just pops up with annotation bubbles when trying to draw on top off existing drawings, so that’s an annoyance.
You could try rnote and xournalpp for PDF annotation. It works pretty well in my expeience for handwriting. I’d reccommend rnote over xournalpp since it can directly save to pdf (iirc), and you can also have an infinite canvas, so it would also be a good OneNote replacement in that department. For popup notes, inline text and stuff, okular from KDE works pretty well for me, but I have also heard good things about the GNOME pdf viewer (UI wise). Haven’t used the GNOME pdf viewer though, so can’t attest to features.
I just use K3B to rip audio CDs. In particularly tricky places, I use cdparanoia and the FLAC encoder on command line. MusicBrainz Picard to fix the metadata. ffmpeg on command line to convert the FLAC albums to MP3 or other formats.
Finally got around to testing out EAC on WINE (prompted by my previous comment a few hours ago).
It seems to work without major issues on WINE 11 in a 32-bit prefix (at least on LMDE 7). Plugins need dotnet20 and dotnet48 installed, otherwise only the in-built AccurateRip meta engine shows up. I’ve only tested ripping to WAVE and FLAC, though.
Ironically I wasn’t able to get EAC working on my Windows 10 installation due to the WinFSP clash, whilst CUERipper errors out on WINE (something to do with how it interacts with the ODD).
However, CUETools works fine and so I was able to compare the same CD ripped by CUETools/CUERipper on Windows with EAC under WINE. I used an ABBA CD as the test case (100+ matches in CTDB, 10+ in AccurateRip).
The CUE sheets are functionally identical (barring the differences in extra metadata stored between the two, as CUERipper included the IRSC where EAC has a Composer comment instead) – the gaps and indices are all the same. The raw rip itself is also identical - I ripped the CD to a disc image (with offset correction in both cases) and the md5 checksum of the WAV file from both applications is the same.
In both tools the rip validated against AccurateRip and CUETools DB as well. I double-checked the EAC rip afterwards using CUETools (again under WINE), as a further test.
I’ve been looking into this myself recently. EAC still seems to be the top option (followed by CUERipper/CUETools). CUETools itself runs under WINE, but CUERipper doesn’t (at least for me). Haven’t tried EAC on WINE yet.
There’s literally only one application I still need Windows for: EAC (Exact Audio Copy).
Everything else has a (often better) Linux alternative/version, runs in WINE or Proton, or can be used just fine in a virtual machine.
Have you tried ABCDE? It’s cli, but once you get used to it, it’s perfect for ripping AudioCDs in bulk.
A good pdf editor is what I’m still looking to replace withiht having to deal with Wine. If PDFxchange made a proper Linux port, I’d buy a new license and migrate from windows.
Onenote is something id like a better replacement to because I hate it, but I haven’t found a replacement despite trying several of the options. PDFxchange could be my replacement for that though if it was ported.
I am looking for a PDF editor which has support for digital signature. There are some which perform add a gpg signature, but clients want to see the green tick that Adobe provides. That’s why I have a internet-less Windows 7 VM having only Adobe Reader and Filezilla.
Have you tried using LibreOffice Draw? It works pretty well for editing PDFs. Just make sure you have all of the fonts that the PDF uses before opening it.
I have. I forget why I didn’t care for it, but I’ve tried a couple times.
I use Trilium Notes as my OneNote replacement at home. I don’t use it religiously, but it’s helpful for basic stuff and seems pretty feature rich if you need that.
I primarily use it with a drawing tablet to annotate PDFs during meetings. I’ve been shifting towards just directly using PDFxchange for the purpose though since it makes it easier to send after meetings and I can directly edit the pdf still. It just pops up with annotation bubbles when trying to draw on top off existing drawings, so that’s an annoyance.
You could try rnote and xournalpp for PDF annotation. It works pretty well in my expeience for handwriting. I’d reccommend rnote over xournalpp since it can directly save to pdf (iirc), and you can also have an infinite canvas, so it would also be a good OneNote replacement in that department. For popup notes, inline text and stuff, okular from KDE works pretty well for me, but I have also heard good things about the GNOME pdf viewer (UI wise). Haven’t used the GNOME pdf viewer though, so can’t attest to features.
I just use K3B to rip audio CDs. In particularly tricky places, I use cdparanoia and the FLAC encoder on command line. MusicBrainz Picard to fix the metadata. ffmpeg on command line to convert the FLAC albums to MP3 or other formats.
Finally got around to testing out EAC on WINE (prompted by my previous comment a few hours ago).
It seems to work without major issues on WINE 11 in a 32-bit prefix (at least on LMDE 7). Plugins need dotnet20 and dotnet48 installed, otherwise only the in-built AccurateRip meta engine shows up. I’ve only tested ripping to WAVE and FLAC, though.
In short, I’d say it’s worth a try now.
Are the rips and logs identical to Windows on the same machine?
Ironically I wasn’t able to get EAC working on my Windows 10 installation due to the WinFSP clash, whilst CUERipper errors out on WINE (something to do with how it interacts with the ODD).
However, CUETools works fine and so I was able to compare the same CD ripped by CUETools/CUERipper on Windows with EAC under WINE. I used an ABBA CD as the test case (100+ matches in CTDB, 10+ in AccurateRip).
The CUE sheets are functionally identical (barring the differences in extra metadata stored between the two, as CUERipper included the IRSC where EAC has a Composer comment instead) – the gaps and indices are all the same. The raw rip itself is also identical - I ripped the CD to a disc image (with offset correction in both cases) and the md5 checksum of the WAV file from both applications is the same.
In both tools the rip validated against AccurateRip and CUETools DB as well. I double-checked the EAC rip afterwards using CUETools (again under WINE), as a further test.
great info
thank you
Doesn’t it work under Wine too now?
It may, but I wouldn’t trust running it that way.
That means trusting Windows instead…
It’s pretty easy to constrain Windows 10 if all you need to run is EAC.
Whipper is supposed to be (almost) as paranoid as EAC? Its been years, so my memory might be faulty.
I’ve been looking into this myself recently. EAC still seems to be the top option (followed by CUERipper/CUETools). CUETools itself runs under WINE, but CUERipper doesn’t (at least for me). Haven’t tried EAC on WINE yet.
https://wiki.hydrogenaudio.org/index.php?title=Comparison_of_CD_rippers