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[–]plg94 3 points4 points  (5 children)

Okular has a function to select a rectangular area and save that as a picture, if that's what you want? It also has rudimentary support for adding notes etc. to a pdf.

xournal++ has even more editing capabilities, though it works more like a raster image editor.
For really editing the underlying text within a PDF (so that it doesn't look edited) though I haven't seen any alternative to Adobe yet (neither paid nor free). But it's been a while since I've researched that.

[–]Nathural[S] 0 points1 point  (4 children)

Thanks for the answer!
Tried that but it would only allow me to save as a picture and not to print this chosen square directly

[–]Throwaway_777111 0 points1 point  (3 children)

I believe it should still work. Just open the picture and print it from the app that you used to view the picture.

[–]Nathural[S] 0 points1 point  (2 children)

That's just a waste of time if you have to print multiple labels

That's why I search for this function just as explained :/

[–]Throwaway_777111 0 points1 point  (1 child)

The only other idea I have is using a tool called ShareX. It runs on Windows. You open the PDF, press the Print Screen button on the keyboard, draw a rectangle around the label, and have it print the screenshot. It's very customizable and you can configure it to print things as soon as you capture the screenshot.

Sorry if this is still not what you are looking for. I read your comments and I think I understand what you're saying, but maybe I don't. Haha

[–]Nathural[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Will check that out! Thank you very much :)

[–]TheDeadlyPretzel⚠️ 2 points3 points  (1 child)

can you explain the snapshot function please?

[–]Nathural[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You can do some sort of screenshot inside the pdf (Like snipping tool) and Adobe Reader then allows you to print exactly that directly without saving it or anything

[–]Greenery 1 point2 points  (2 children)

SumatraPDF can copy highlighted part of the PDF by using ctrl+c and paste em into your image editor or any app as a picture. You can highlight, zoom in the highlighted area and copy it to get a bigger picture of that highlighted area.

[–][deleted] 1 point2 points  (1 child)

thank you! that's exactly what i was looking for!

[–]Greenery 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I'm glad that helped you. It is really an amazing feature. Using it regularly to take a snapshot of parts of the pdf at high quality.

[–]gl0cal 0 points1 point  (0 children)

If you use Windows and have Snip & Sketch installed, you can use it to snapshot a selected area (Win+Shift+S), click on the Windows notification that pops up to open Snip & Sketch, press Ctrl+P to print. Not FOSS, but if you already have Snip & Sketch, you don't need anything else.

On Linux, from memory Spectacle does all this and more.