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Great! Thanks a lot. I'll try it.

BTW, I install AUR applications with: yay -S package_name That's why I didn't know anything about git, clone, makepkg ...

Thanks again!

@josete: There is only one step different from a manual AUR installation. You clone the repository, enter it (same so far), then checkout the revision you want to build (this step is different, the 0f0cf1f commit I looked up in "view changes" from this page as the last 2019 revision), then build and install as usual.

$ git clone https://aur.archlinux.org/pdfstudio-bin.git
$ cd pdfstudio-bin
$ git checkout 0f0cf1f
$ makepkg -i

I'm afraid I have no idea how to do anything of that.

@josete The packaging is a Git repository with full history. Just use the URL at the top of the page to clone this, then git checkout whichever commit has the version you want to build, then run makepkg. This package already has a long tail of split off AUR packages for many versions along the way and I think catering to that licensing issue is crazy. If you don't have a license and don't want to use just the free parts don't upgrade the package past the version you want to use. One you build the version you want, you can pass around the built packages to your other machines to save the trouble building the right one.

In my humble opinion there should be 2 different packages, one for version 19 and one for version 20. I have a license for PDF Studio Pro 19 but not for the new one. My system keeps saying I have 1 update available and that's not true.

@caleb: You make a valid argument. Point taken.

See Nonfree applications package guidelines:

Use the suffix -bin always unless you are sure there will never be a source-based package

In this case I'm pretty sure it's safe to say there will never be a source-based package, but there's nothing wrong with using the -bin suffix.

@yochananmarqos I actually really dislike that Arch packaging guidelines allow binary packages without -bin; I prefer to know up front when I search the AUR using yay --aur -Ss or similar tools whether a package I see is going to be a source build or an upstream binary. Last I checked the Arch guidelines allowed using -bin suffixes for these kind of things even if the sources was not available, it just doesn't require the -bin designation. Is that not still the case?

This should be called pdfstudio as there is no source code available; therefore no -bin designation is required.

Any way to use this app with the newest java without the top bar disappearing?