- trying to edit
- Posted by Vic on March 11th, 2005
I have the adobe essentials 2002 (v4.0) (has acrobat 5.05, pagemaker 7.0,
and a few others) and I am new to using all the software in it. My immediate
goal is to be able to edit a pdf file or at least convert to a word
document, but it seems like the software is smarter than me at the moment
because every time I try something the option is grayed out. For example I
have a table that is five columns wide and about a third of a page long. I
need to be able to change some of the data. I receive the information all
ready in the pdf format.
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Thanks
Vic Langrehr
After Hours Computers
- Posted by jda^fx on March 13th, 2005
On Fri, 11 Mar 2005 12:52:02 GMT, Vic wrote in 24hoursupport.helpdesk:
Acrobat is for making Word documents into pdf not the other way
arround. Editing pdf, can be tricky, it all depends on wich program
made them. A pdf made with Acrobat from a Word document will be
editable, if you use Pagemaker or Indesign and insert multible pdf
documents and export again to pdf it is proabably not, because then
fonts might not be embedded anymore depending on the settings used
when exporting the second time. A pdf made from Photoshop you might
need Illustrator to edit
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jda^fx
- Posted by Toolman Tim on March 13th, 2005
"jda^fx" <wh@tever.not> wrote in message
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If the OP has Adobe Acrobat 5 (not the reader) then the text from a PDF
document can be saved as .RTF, which is editable in Word. Or other word
processors (I hate word <g>).
Also, in Acrobat 5 you can edit font-based text in some PDFs directly,
although it's slow, tedious, and rather limited. There's an icon in the
program with a "T" - open face - that puts a user in text edit mode.
Obviously, that won't work for graphics-based text, such as in a JPG logo or
something. While those look like text, it's really a graphic.
- Posted by jda^fx on March 13th, 2005
On Sun, 13 Mar 2005 13:21:34 -0800, Toolman Tim wrote in
24hoursupport.helpdesk:
I think that (as long it is text based) you can just copy/paste from
Adobe Reader vers. 7 to a .rtf doc. Some formatting is bound to go,
but saveing to .rtf proabably has the same consequence. The thing
about text and grahics based text was the thing I was trying to
explain with the embedde font thing, allthough maybe I was not precise
enough 
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jda^fx
- Posted by Toolman Tim on March 13th, 2005
"jda^fx" <wh@tever.not> wrote in message
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Yeah - I thought that was what you were trying to get at. I make PDFs from
my CAD program, and the fonts are always graphics in PDF, so they're not
editable.
While I'm on the subject, have you ever heard of an automatic watermark in
PDF? My CAD doesn't do watermarks, but I really want one behind my drawings.
I have a specific customer causing me problems - he's removing my company's
identification, and pretending the products he's selling are his own (print
my PDF, cut out my logo, headers and info, and photocopies it onto his own
letterhead). I don't want to stop selling to the guy, 'cause he moves a lot
of product, but I want OUR name on it, not his. WE are paying for the
advertising, research, development, etc., and market recognition is
important. (We do have a 'private label' program for other customers, but
he's not big enough of a customer to get that program. The private label
program is like OEM - they handle the marketing, and provide warranty, etc.
instead of us.)
We call him a weasel...<g>
