Inline edition is not userfriendly

[SemaphoreOxalis]

Thank you for developing PDFApps. There is still a real lack of complete and open-source PDF editing tools, so this project is very valuable.

My main concern is the feature most frequently requested by our users: inline text editing.

In PDFApps, it took us some time to understand how this feature works. Once we found it, the workflow still felt difficult for non-technical users:

1. Go to edition tools
2. Enable Edit mode.
3. Select inline text editing.
4. Edit the text.
5. Press Enter to confirm the change — clicking outside the editing area does not validate it.
6. Validate the modification again.
7. Save a new edited version of the PDF.
8. Reopen or inspect the file and discover that the edited text does not use the same font family or font size as the original text.

Ideally, inline editing should behave more like editing text in a standard document editor:

• clicking outside the text area should confirm the modification;
• the edited text should automatically preserve the original font family, size, weight and colour whenever possible;
• saving should update the current document, or at least make the save workflow more explicit;
• the editing mode should be easier to discover : just a click in the text zone ?

For comparison, here is an example from JoPDF, which is free but not open source:

In JoPDF, the text editing workflow feels more direct, and the replacement text appears to preserve the original formatting more accurately.

Thank you for considering these improvements.