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On occasion I receive a PDF doc, that I would like to edit then save.
I do not want to pay for Adobe "Pro?" I have tried a few, where a Google search denotes it as a FREE apps - that soon turns into PAID ! Is there a useful PDF app, where I can edit the text or alternately save to MSFT Word for editing? |
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wrote: On occasion I receive a PDF doc, that I would like to edit then save. I do not want to pay for Adobe "Pro?" I have tried a few, where a Google search denotes it as a FREE apps - that soon turns into PAID ! Is there a useful PDF app, where I can edit the text or alternately save to MSFT Word for editing? word will open a pdf, although formatting might change slightly: https://support.office.com/en-us/art...729-6b79-499a- bcdb-233379c2f63a |
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| On occasion I receive a PDF doc, that I would like to edit then save. I use PDF XChange Viewer v. 2.5.214. I think some later versions may be restriced or nagware, but I'm not sure. I use it to fill in fillable forms, to do things like add a note with the URL of where I got the PDF, etc. I can also edit pages by exporting the whole thing as an image, working on the image, then pasting that image back in. I sometimes do non-fillable forms that way. But if you want total editing ability I don't think there's any free option. PDFXV doesn't allow me to just cut, paste, or type text as though the existing text were Notepad. I don't think the paid version can even do that. |
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On 09/01/2019 18:49:09, wrote:
On occasion I receive a PDF doc, that I would like to edit then save. I do not want to pay for Adobe "Pro?" I have tried a few, where a Google search denotes it as a FREE apps - that soon turns into PAID ! Is there a useful PDF app, where I can edit the text or alternately save to MSFT Word for editing? https://icecreamapps.com/PDF-Editor/ -- mick |
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On 1/9/2019 2:54 PM, Keith Nuttle wrote:
On 1/9/2019 1:49 PM, wrote: On occasion I receive a PDF doc, that I would like to edit then save. I do not want to pay for Adobe "Pro?" I have tried a few, where a Google search denotes it as a FREE apps - that soon turns into PAID ! Is there a useful PDF app, where I can edit the text or alternately save to MSFT Word for editing? When you say edit exactly what do you mean? If you mean rewrite sections of the document then you will have to use MS Word or WordPerfect (except the Student and Home edition) However it you are talking about doing as I do, you can definitely do it with the free Adobe Reader.** I down load* books or articles in PDF format.* Sometimes I want to add a comment to a specific sentence so it is permanently marked so it is easily found.* ie a book on the history of a county, and there is a specific paragraph that my describe a family I am interest. I use the Comment function of Adobe Reader to mark those sections.* That make them easy to find when you click Comments in the right side pane, as all the comments in the document are listed. Alternatively you can added the comment with right click at the point you want to mark and select Sticky Note.* (There are some PDF that are locked and you can not do this, if they are locked you probably can not open them for editing either.) I use the add text function of Adobe Reader If I want to make a correction to the document ie the history gives an erroneous person as the father.*** I also use this function to fill in forms, as this function makes any PDF document an editable form. To make the information part of the document you must save the edited PDF document to disk.* To make the information a permanent part of the PDF print the PDF to another file using a PDF printer. I don't personally use the revision, but I believe it is freeware that will do what you want. It was part of SourceForge. https://www.pdfforge.org/pdfcreator -- 2018: The year we learn to play the great game of Euchre |
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I don't personally use the revision, but I believe it is freeware that will do what you want. It was part of SourceForge. https://www.pdfforge.org/pdfcreator I prefer to see some examples of what the original poster expects to edit. There is actually no guarantee that every PDF can be edited. ******* This document for example, has a special kind of protection that is not a feature covered in the PDF spec. The PDF spec has "security bits" to control access to documents. But this one is done outside of that, and the method is a feature of a desktop publishing packages. https://i.postimg.cc/HnHMKnZx/libreo...ent-page-2.gif The method was originally defined here. I see this page has been updated a bit, from the original. http://spivey.oriel.ox.ac.uk/corner/Obfuscated_PDF The English text in the document, renders as gibberish in an editor, but looks normal in a PDF viewer. In a PDF viewer, if you were to wipe the text and select "copy", again the copy buffer gets gibberish. Editing *will* work for very simple documents. The simpler they are, the better. Some tools are really only comfortable with vertical and horizontal strings. It takes proper tools (maybe Adobe Illustrator being capable of text with these orientations), to handle something like this. http://ecee.colorado.edu/~kuester/smith/smith.pdf The PDF specs would allow a text string to be rendered on a spline curve. You couldn't translate such a construct into something that Microsoft Word could handle. And that's a problem with "conversions", is making sure that both environments have the expressive richness to do the same thing. If Microsoft Word only has horizontal and vertical text, whereas PDF tools can make text on circles or spline curves... now, you have a problem. But simple documents won't have that squirrelly ****. And Tax Forms can be edited in Acrobat Reader (free), then printed off when you've completed them and want your output. You may not be able to save them. Some tax forms have an information page explaining what to do and what you can't do. There are also cases that are going to "make you weep". Maybe a Latex-origined PDF has each character as a "one character string". You cannot wipe over a word and edit it, when editing that PDF. You have to wipe each character individually and overtype it. One character at a time. Desktop publishing tools generally create a single contiguous string per line, and wiping that and editing it is relatively efficient. But there can be a number of reasons why the editing will be more difficult. My other favorite example, is some bonehead decided to make text output in a PDF, by "overlaying" two characters. One a regular character, plus an "outline font" which is concentric to the character. The only problem with this sort of stuff, is getting your "text selector" I-beam to select the correct part for editing. When such items are too close together, you'll need an additional capability to edit it. ******* For a number of these "horror" type documents, it's better to convert them to a bitmap and then OCR them. I.e. PDF to TIF, then Nuance OCR to Microsoft Word. To try to save a little on hair loss. It's not pleasant contemplating doing that, but sometimes you have to do something like that, in the interest of time. For the Latex document case, this will (if you're real lucky) convert all those one-character strings, into multiple-character strings. Paul |
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On Wed, 09 Jan 2019 22:05:30 GMT, mick wrote:
On 09/01/2019 18:49:09, wrote: On occasion I receive a PDF doc, that I would like to edit then save. I do not want to pay for Adobe "Pro?" I have tried a few, where a Google search denotes it as a FREE apps - that soon turns into PAID ! Is there a useful PDF app, where I can edit the text or alternately save to MSFT Word for editing? https://icecreamapps.com/PDF-Editor/ Thank you ALL, for providing those Many options!! I will soon follow up with the provided links BTW When I penned my request, I was trying to respond to a company email. I was sent a PDF doc, that I was to "sign" and return showing acceptance. I did not find a FREE app, that would let me add my name/ date in the PDF designated lines and Save. At my request, I also received it as a Word doc, that I could easily respond |
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