Editing a pdf

scholar007

Hope I'm posting this in the right place - How do I edit a pdf file?

If I copy it all to word - it gets garbled.

Any advice greatly appreciated.

Thanks.

NewFrockTuesday

You cant. You need software to open it and then you can but pdfing a doc is just like putting a picture in a glass frame - its so noone can scribble over it.

chin_grin

Have you tried using a different viewer\editor?

I think foxit lets you edit pdf's. Just be wary when installing it that you don't agree to install their crapware along with it (all toolbars and such).

scholar007

Thanks for the advice

ScumLord

You could probably open it in gimp the free photo editing software. I'm assuming that as you can open PDFs in Photoshop. But like NewFrockTuesday says it will open like a jpeg in anything other than acrobat or a program like it.

chin_grin

There are tonnes of converters if you wanted to try those?

https://www.google.com/search?sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8&q=pdf+to+word

syklops

What exactly do you want to do?

Once we know that we can advise whether it is do-able or not.

scholar007

syklops wrote: »

What exactly do you want to do?

Once we know that we can advise whether it is do-able or not.

Change a tiny bit of text

Tomtata

Nitropdf will do it

Kenny Logins

NewFrockTuesday wrote: »

You cant. You need software to open it and then you can but pdfing a doc is just like putting a picture in a glass frame - its so noone can scribble over it.

You can edit every element of a PDF, with the right (expensive) software.

Bellu

Well, you could use foxit to open the PDF files, and them copy the needed part to the notepad save as text.
If you want to get a large mount into text, then you'd better turn to paid software, such as enolsoft PDF to TXT the one I got from mac app store when giveaway, can convert multiple pages into text in several mins.

If it's a page or so, this online pdf editor might help.

NewFrockTuesday

I know this is frowned upon, but I remembered the poster looking to break a pdf and I had the same need today. Apols for zombifying the thread.

http://convertpdftoword.net/


I tried a few different sites and programmes, but this seems to be the best one. There are a ton of them but the formatting is so lost on some of them that its not worth while rinsing them through.

mathepac

Editing PDFs is a doddle. Use tools like PDFpen / PDFpen Pro on the Mac or Windoze equivalents.

The other option as mentioned above is to turn the document back into text via a converter, edit the elements you want to change using your word processor / graphics editor and then print to PDF when finished.