currently using libreoffice draw.
Do you mean “Based” OS or based os?
Stirling-PDF is amazing
LibreOffice Draw can make changes to PDFs.
having layering(hope that the right word for a group of text, icons and symbols) issue where icons and symbols go missing or get replaced by square boxes
Try to make sure you have all of the fonts used by the PDF installed on your system. I tend to only make small changes, but not having the correct fonts causes issues for me.
What kind of edits are we talking? Firefox can add signatures and text now in its built-in pdf reader.
résumés and stuff
You don’t need a PDF editor to create PDF’s, you can print to PDF in any program that can print, including LibreOffice Writer.
for editing, like for reformatting pdf content.
Pdfs were never meant for that… people dont get that and try to convince you you need to edit damn PDFs.
Pdfs are a format for viewing documents, with most editing capabilities stripped. Libreoffice and MSoffice both have a feature to export a PDF with an embedded .odt or .docx, that you can actually load in a regular word processor, edit and export.
This is an intuitive PDF page editor for linux: Pdfmixtool
