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# Character Sheet Best Practices

## Don't use your browser!

Editing a PDF in your browser may look okay, but they frequently cause problems when our staff and sheet checkers try to view them. For instance, PDFs edited in Chromium browsers (Chrome, Edge, Opera, and others) often have "phantom dots" if you removed something from an earlier draft of your character. Firefox, on the other hand, causes lots of graphical and typeface glitches.

## Recommended editors

The following editors are all free. A paid option often exists, but it is not necessary to purchase one.

### Windows

* [<mark style="color:red;">Foxit Reader</mark>](https://www.foxit.com/downloads/#Foxit-Reader/)
* [<mark style="color:red;">Sumatra PDF</mark>](https://www.sumatrapdfreader.org/download-free-pdf-viewer)
* [<mark style="color:red;">Xodo</mark>](https://apps.microsoft.com/store/detail/xodo-pdf-reader-editor/9WZDNCRDJXP4?hl=en-us\&gl=us\&rtc=1)

### Mac

* [<mark style="color:red;">Foxit Reader</mark>](https://www.foxit.com/downloads/#Foxit-Reader/)
* [<mark style="color:red;">PDF Viewer</mark>](https://apps.apple.com/us/app/pdf-viewer-annotation-expert/id1120099014)&#x20;
* Preview (built-in; doesn't allow custom input in dropdowns)

### Linux

* [<mark style="color:red;">Okular</mark>](https://okular.kde.org/)
* [<mark style="color:red;">Xournal++</mark>](https://xournalpp.github.io/)

### Android

* [<mark style="color:red;">PDF Viewer Pro</mark>](https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.pspdfkit.viewer)
* [<mark style="color:red;">Xodo</mark>](https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.xodo.pdf.reader\&hl=en_US\&gl=US\&pli=1)&#x20;

### iOS

* [<mark style="color:red;">PDF Viewer</mark>](https://apps.apple.com/us/app/pdf-viewer-annotation-expert/id1120099014)&#x20;
* [<mark style="color:red;">Xodo</mark>](https://apps.apple.com/us/app/xodo-pdf-reader-scanner/id805075929)