Re: PDF editing

de George 06/18/2006 06:21

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

Helen wrote:
> George wrote:
> > 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.
> >
> > Rossi wrote:
> >> Hello, :D
> >> 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-)
> >
>
> 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