You don’t need expensive software for basic PDF tasks. In fact, all you need is a handful of free web-based apps.

Smallpdf is a solid online PDF editor for making basic changes to documents on the fly. Smallpdf is a free online PDF editor that offers a limited but useful set of editing and conversion tools.

The Preview app in macOS lets you view, search, print, and perform other actions on PDF files. But if you just need a new PDF with specific pages, you don’t have to monkey around much at all. In the ...