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I've already edited some pdfs with LibreOffice writer. I don't know if it's suitable for that, but it worked for me
PDFs can contain a vast amount of different Image information, but often a good software that can edit vector data opens PDFs for editing easily. It might convert not embedded Fonts in paths and rasterize some transparency effects though. So Inkscape might work.
I’m assuming that will work similar to Microsoft Word where it’s fine for basic PDFs but if there are a lot of tables or images it can mess up the document?
think of it as though pdf is the container - it can contain all sorts of different data. I'd say you got real lucky being able to edit one with Writer without issues.
I've confused the name, It was LibreOffice Draw, not Writer