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Can you edit a PDF document?
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Yes. This is something I'd wanted to do for a long time and just stumbled onto by accident.
You can't do it with just the reader, you have to have full acrobat. I'm looking at version 4.
There are some icons across the top and some down the left side of my screen. When I download a document and open it,
The hand at the top of the left column is highlighted.
Look down the left side. At the bottom is a T. Above that is a hand holding a pen. Above that are two funny looking superimposed squares. Click on that. Move the mouse back out to the document. You'll see a cross hair. Put that on the lower left corner of a field you want to fill in and draw a box. Then answer the field properties questions. Repeat as necessary. When you're ready to fill in, click back on the hand. Back on the document the hand will change to a vertical line when it is over a box you've created.
I have downloaded several State Quarterly unemployment PDFs and made them into completable forms this way.
Help-user guide-using and creating pdf form chapter for more help.
Dave
You can't do it with just the reader, you have to have full acrobat. I'm looking at version 4.
There are some icons across the top and some down the left side of my screen. When I download a document and open it,
The hand at the top of the left column is highlighted.
Look down the left side. At the bottom is a T. Above that is a hand holding a pen. Above that are two funny looking superimposed squares. Click on that. Move the mouse back out to the document. You'll see a cross hair. Put that on the lower left corner of a field you want to fill in and draw a box. Then answer the field properties questions. Repeat as necessary. When you're ready to fill in, click back on the hand. Back on the document the hand will change to a vertical line when it is over a box you've created.
I have downloaded several State Quarterly unemployment PDFs and made them into completable forms this way.
Help-user guide-using and creating pdf form chapter for more help.
Dave
i'm sorry-it was late and i didn't read your post carefully enough.
I was thinking about "inserting text" on blank lines in a form where input was expected.
I have not needed to change existing text in a pdf and I dont know how to do that or if its possible.
I was thinking about "inserting text" on blank lines in a form where input was expected.
I have not needed to change existing text in a pdf and I dont know how to do that or if its possible.
You may have two problems:
1) The existing text is really an image or outlined text that cannot be edited.
2) The existing text uses an embedded font that you can not re-encode into the document, and therefore cannot edit.
Otherwise, yes, PDFs can be edited in Acrobat or Illustrator.
1) The existing text is really an image or outlined text that cannot be edited.
2) The existing text uses an embedded font that you can not re-encode into the document, and therefore cannot edit.
Otherwise, yes, PDFs can be edited in Acrobat or Illustrator.
PixelMasher
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There is a software called Pitstop, we use it at the printer where I work to edit PDF files. They have versions for both the Mac and PC. When loaded its opens up with Acrobat reader.
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