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 05/23/2007 10:58:20 AM · #1
How do I do this?

I have Acrobat 6.

Can I edit directly into that app.? or do I put the doc into Word and edit?

How can I edit an existing PDF document?

Thanks.
 05/23/2007 11:04:20 AM · #2
Basically you cant edit the actual PDF file. Even with Acrobat pro you are limited in what you can edit with it. you mite be able to import it in to another editor and re publish it that way but most attempts Ive seen usually end up just rebuilding the document unless it has a lot of pages to it...

-dave
 05/23/2007 11:04:27 AM · #3
You need full version (pro) or acrobat. Also, there could be permissions set that prevents you from making edits. In that case you need to get password from person who created original PDF.

Nick
 05/23/2007 11:04:54 AM · #4
I didn't think you could.......that is the whole reason people use PDF's, so they cannot be altered. Of course there is probably some program out there that will let you alter them.
 05/23/2007 11:05:35 AM · #5
Originally posted by Man_Called_Horse:
How do I do this?

I have Acrobat 6.

Can I edit directly into that app.? or do I put the doc into Word and edit?

How can I edit an existing PDF document?

I've never done it this way, but if it a PDF, you should open it in Acrobat and edit it.

I tend to Print to PDF from word or whatever for my PDF's more convenient to work in other applications.
 05/23/2007 11:40:25 AM · #6
Thanks for the help.

Figured it out.
 05/23/2007 11:46:07 AM · #7
Originally posted by KarenNfld:
I didn't think you could.......that is the whole reason people use PDF's, so they cannot be altered. Of course there is probably some program out there that will let you alter them.


I beg to differ on the reason for PDF's. While that might be a reason a company uses it there are other protected docuemtn formats.

Adobe has that minor amount of power to get people to use things and make them "Popular" or well they try and have suceeded.

PDF's are viewable cross platform with a defined standard and decent reverse compatability. Of course they only work cross platform because Adobe provided viewers for them. But just about anything from mymobile phone to my pda to most desktop operating systems, plugins for browsers and what not.

Their cross platform popular and most of all adobe makes money off the software. Being protected is second nature but not primary. Almost ANY 2D PDF can be loaded into image ready and disected into flat images... then again so can a screen shot.

But I honestly dont think (of course just my opinion) that the main reason for them is to be protected, there were plenty of other formats capable. Due to cross platform viewers Adobe's format just became very popular. Many other formats can be viewed on other platforms of course, they dotn always have the support of their main designer.

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 05/23/2007 12:10:30 PM · #8
You can edit a PDF in Acrobat (not Acrobat Reader, the free viewer), though you often have to have the original font with which the document was formatted. It is very clunky editing though, basically line-by-line for text.

Much additional editing functionality can be added with a program called PitStop, which will let you do things like change the colors of objects on the page.

You can also open many PDFs with other Adobe products, like Illustrator or Photoshop, though the way the PDF is imported will limit the types of editing you can do.
 05/23/2007 12:29:39 PM · #9
You can also open PDFs in Photoshop CS or later as well as Illustrator CS or later. Illustrator gives you more power in editing the text and moving things around. When you're done you can save the document as a PDF again directly from Illustrator or Photoshop.
 05/24/2007 09:41:18 AM · #10
editing a PDF with acrobat is only available if a filed has been made to be that way - some people will produce a template which allows say someones name to be added to a certificate without the need to have the original artwork..

opening a PDF in ImageReady or Photoshop will enlarge the final document and in the case of a multi-page doc mean that you can only save 1 page at a time..

i've just produced a 24 page prospectus which is heavily filled with photographs, as a low res version it comes in at just under 2MB in size, the text will still be 100% but the photos have been reduced in res..

now the full blown res version is just over 17MB in size and this shows the pics at full 300DPI res

if i open 1 of the low res in Photoshop and save it again as a PDF it comes in @ 9.8MB and the high res of the same page comes in @ 14.7MB!
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