pdf reader and writer
 

i want to install a foss pdf reader and writer which is simple to install and use on mx linux,

any recommendation?

Master PDF Editor -- see this old thread from rokytnji that I remembered.

BTW -- got a laptop running, it seems. Good!

And this one, too! LOL

Okular works well for me.

Your OS should all ready have one installed by default

Okular or Evince work well for reading PDFs. One of those will probably be there by default already.

As for creating PDFs, any application can print to a file as PDF. For example in Chromium: Print -> Destination -> PDF; Or in LibreOffice: File -> Export as PDF. Or in Inkscape: File -> Print -> Print to File;

Be sure to use the archival quality version of the format, PDF/A, when creating PDFs.

If you mean attempting to edit PDFs that already exist, step back and reassess your planned work flow. PDF is a terminal stage format for your output. It goes either to the printer or to the bit bucket. It is not a format intended for editing. If you want to edit output of a program, then do it in the original program which created the PDF in the first place. By the time the output has reached the PDF stage, it is too late.

Works as a viewer for PostScript, DVI, and a couple dozen other file types as well. It was a while before I realized I could use it to view TIFF files without having to wait for The GIMP to load.

Cheers...

i have a few laptops i'm working on,
i thake old PCs and make them usable again and give them away to people in need,
the laptop i'm planning on using is lying around waiting for me to finish with the other ones

Very cool.

By the way, if you can get hold of old Chromebooks which have expired support before they are thrown away, you can restore them with a full GNU/Linux distro. Most will run Ubuntu, for example, quite well and they will have increased functionality from leaving ChromeOS behind. The solid state hard disks they have are more than large enough for any distro but people's files and data will mostly have to reside on a server somewhere, aka "the cloud".

However, the initial mrchromebox.tech script to liberate the BIOS looks a bit dodgy and has a lot of layers of fetching unauthenticated material from the net.

As John_VV pointed out, there should be one on the system already. Like LibreOffice Draw to edit pdf, for viewing I believe browser will be able to do it.

Inkscape as well can edit PDF.

Check out this link: https://opensource.com/alternatives/adobe-acrobat

Good luck!

One big plus of Master PDF Editor is that you can fill in PDF forms with it. Also see my answer here.

One way to be able to easily edit a PDF is to keep a copy of the file used to create the PDF so you can easily edit that. LibreOffice has a setting that will invisibly embed the original LibreOffice file in the PDF. To edit the PDF, just open it in LibreOffice program that created it and the program will open the original document. I've been doing this for years

The setting can be found in File -> Export AS -> Export as PDF -> Hybrid PDF. The setting will "Stick" if you finish exporting to PDF after selecting it.

@ Lady Fitzgerald -- thanks! Was unaware of this cpapbility.

@ shruggy -- links seem not to allow downloads of ver 3.xx, FYI

@ OP -- did the same with old laptops and desktops for a while, myself. I found that I was too close to Redmond, at the time, and local youngsters too peer-pressured to use M$ for much success with introducing Linux. Sincerely hope you do better and I'm sure you will, because necessity makes one more open-minded, unlike here, it seems.

Try this link. I checked and the only file that cannot be downloaded from the IA is master-pdf-editor-3.7.10_qt5.amd64.tar.gz. Fortunately, I found it sitting on my local disk and uploaded here.

yes but they'r not as good

That sounds rather old, they're well into the 5.x releases:
code-industry.net/downloads/ offers 5.4.38