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title: Dear God Why Are PDF Editors Such an Ordeal?
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All PDF editors/mergers/tools either:

1. Cost hundreds of dollars
1. Require uploading private documents to a server for processing
1. Leave watermarks or charge you for "pro" features
1. Are blatant malware

Except mupdf and mutool, which are absolutely amazing.