IMO the reason PDF tools are bad on linux has a lot to do with history.
Per Wikipedia, PDF is a standard that was originally developed by Adobe. It was a proprietary standard for ~15 years before it became an open standard.
Nowadays, the relationship between Adobe and PDF is like Google and Chromium. Other PDF tools are playing catch up, but it’s en enormous amount of tedious work that mist would only do for a good paycheck, which is hard to find outside of Adobe.
Per Wikipedia, PDF is a standard that was originally developed by Adobe. It was a proprietary standard for ~15 years before it became an open standard.
Nowadays, the relationship between Adobe and PDF is like Google and Chromium. Other PDF tools are playing catch up, but it’s en enormous amount of tedious work that mist would only do for a good paycheck, which is hard to find outside of Adobe.