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I am looking for a solution to collaborative PDF editing (mostly annotations). I already have a Nextcloud installation with Office for several members so it would be great if it could be integrated, but it is not necessary.

What I mainly want is the possibility to add and view annotations made by several users on the same file at the same time.

Do you have a suggestion?

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[–] poVoq@slrpnk.net 4 points 2 days ago (2 children)

I think OnlyOffice supports that. There is an extension for that for Nextcloud.

[–] EarMaster@lemmy.world 2 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

I have installed OnlyOffice Community Edition and it seems to work. I need to test it with a few others over a real connection (not just locally), but it seems promising.

[–] EarMaster@lemmy.world 1 points 2 days ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (2 children)

~~I tried that. It opens PDFs in Impress (their PowerPoint) and provides only a very basic annotation interface.~~

I was wrong. I was using Nextcloud Office not OnlyOffice.

[–] poVoq@slrpnk.net 3 points 2 days ago (1 children)

OnlyOffice doesn't have "Impress". I think you are confusing that with LibreOffice or Collabora Office.

[–] EarMaster@lemmy.world 1 points 2 days ago

You might be right.

[–] gedaliyah@lemmy.world 3 points 2 days ago

I think you may be thinking of LibreOffice