PDF editing

[Rossi]

Hello,
Can I edit the pdf files & how.I don`t want to reconvert it to doc or
exl etc.Is there any programme available where I can Edit the pdf
document in pdf itself.Don`t want acrobat reader full version l-)

 

[J.K.]

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Hello,
Can I edit the pdf files & how.I don`t want to reconvert it to doc or
exl etc.Is there any programme available where I can Edit the pdf
document in pdf itself.Don`t want acrobat reader full version l-)

Open Office?

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[George]

To put it simply, No. You can open a pdf in in the free viewer for
Adobe, then click Edit and then Select All and then Edit and Copy and
then paste the text into your regular word processor. If the pdf has
pictures, clcik on the camera icon and draw a box around the picture.
Once you have the document in your word processor, you can make changes
and use something like the popular PDF Creator to convert the document
to pdf.

 

[PDFrank]

Hello,
Can I edit the pdf files & how.I don`t want to reconvert it to doc or
exl etc.Is there any programme available where I can Edit the pdf
document in pdf itself.Don`t want acrobat reader full version l-)

A PDF, assuming it was created to contain text and is not simply a
scanned document, has editable text in it. However, most PDFs have the
text streams compressed. If you can uncompress the streams, you can
make (minor) changes to the text.

There are several freewares that can uncompress the text. PDFTK is one.
Another is PDF Compressor at nicepdf.com.

Once uncompressed, simply load the file into a hex editor, or similar
editor that will not immediately corrupt the file, and you can make your
edits, save your changes, then re-compress the file.

It is VERY EASY to corrupt a PDF using this technique, so you should
always make a backup.

At present, there does not appear to be a WYSIWYG PDF text editor that
is free.

 

[M.L.]

“Under evaluation mode, you can still use all the features provided by
Foxit PDF Editor. You can make every change to your PDF documents,
however, when you save your modified document, an evaluation mark will
be put on every page you modified.”

Software that leaves a watermark on the output is not freeware,
period.

 

[Helen]

To put it simply, No. You can open a pdf in in the free viewer for
Adobe, then click Edit and then Select All and then Edit and Copy and
then paste the text into your regular word processor. If the pdf has
pictures, clcik on the camera icon and draw a box around the picture.
Once you have the document in your word processor, you can make changes
and use something like the popular PDF Creator to convert the document
to pdf.

O.K. and what if, by chance, it won't let you copy? I've never had a
pdf file that would allow copying into anything. Sure IF you can get it
into Word you can edit it, but HOW (what program(s) and procedures do
you use to COPY a PDF file? If you can copy and alter them, the
purpose of Pdf is defeated. So please explain what program you used to
do this. I have NEVER been able to copy/paste (that's what you're in
effect doing) any pdf file.

TIA
Helen

 

[socrtwo]

Look closely at Adobe Reader 7 (and maybe 6 and 5). On the File Menu,
there is a choice "Save as text." As far as I know this extracts the
text.

 

[George]

Helen,

Socrtwo's post is correct. The "Save as text" option is another way is
another way of getting text out of a PDF file. I think this option was
added in version 7. The process I described doesn't edit the PDF file.
It just copies the text out of the file so you can paste it into your
word processor. Be aware that much of the formatting will be lost.
The process I described won't work on scanned PDF files. A scanned
document is basically a picture of the document and it has no text
unless it has gone through an OCR process.

My guess is that if you cannot copy text out of a PDF, you either need
a later version of the Adobe reader or the document has been scanned.

George

 

[PDFrank]

Helen,

Socrtwo's post is correct. The "Save as text" option is another way is
another way of getting text out of a PDF file. I think this option was
added in version 7.

IIRC, Reader 4 could extract the text from a PDF. Those who "upgraded"
to Reader 5, however, found the feature removed. They also found Reader
5 much more bloated and slower than Reader 4.

It was restored again in Reader 6, a still more bloated version.

 

[Stuzz]

Hello,
Can I edit the pdf files & how.I don`t want to reconvert it to doc or
exl etc.Is there any programme available where I can Edit the pdf
document in pdf itself.Don`t want acrobat reader full version l-)

You can't exactly edit a pdf, but you can annotate one with Foxit PDF
Reader. To save your changes without the watermark, you can print the
annotated PDF to a PDF printer.

Regarding PDF printers, I'd recommend PDF Creator. Was using PDF995 for
awhile, but have found PDF Creator makes smaller PDFs

Might get to some of the way to what your after.

http://www.foxitsoftware.com/pdf/rd_intro.php
http://sector7g.wurzel6.de/pdfcreator/index_en.htm

Regards
Stuzz

 

[kenitholson]

Stuzz,

Regarding PDF printers, I'd recommend PDF Creator. Was using PDF995 for
awhile, but have found PDF Creator makes smaller PDFs

Which PDF Creator download do you recommend for Windows 9X?
http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/pdfcreator/PDFCreator-0_9_2_AFPLGhostscript.exe?download
or
http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/pdfcreator/PDFCreator-0_9_2_GPLGhostscript.exe?download
So far can not find out what the difference is between the GPL... and
AFP... except the 2nd is larger in size.

Thanks

Ken

 

[Stuzz]

Which PDF Creator download do you recommend for Windows 9X?

http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/pdfcreator/PDFCreator-0_9_2_AFPLGhos
tscript.exe?download or
http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/pdfcreator/PDFCreator-0_9_2_GPLGhost
script.exe?download So far can not find out what the difference is
between the GPL... and AFP... except the 2nd is larger in size.

Dunno Ken

I'm on XP here, and I don't know what GPL and AFP mean

If I were you, I'd just download the one that been downloaded the most. If
that doesn't work, get the other.

Regards
Stuzz