Re: Editing PDFs

[Seb <techwritersblock -at- gmail -dot- com>]

A more elegant solution would to be to bring the PDF into Adobe Illustrator.
Illustrator can edit and save PDFs natively, so there is no need to convert
the file to a jpg or other lossy image using Photoshop.

Do you know what program the drafter is using to create the file? Is he
embedding the fonts into the PDF? Has the drafter tried making the text
change himself using the original file?

Seb

On 10/12/07, brianlindgren -at- aol -dot- com <brianlindgren -at- aol -dot- com> wrote:
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> I don't know if this will be a viable solution, but if you have
> PhotoSSshop you can open the page from the PDF in PhotoShop,?make any
> necessary edits there,?save it as a PDF and re-import the page.
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> If the graphic is a full page, you also have the option to save it as a
> JPG from Acrobat, edit it in PhotoShop (or any other graphics package), then
> bring back the edited JPG into your PDF.
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Sam Beard <sbeard -at- oico -dot- com>
> To: TECHWR-L <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com>
> Sent: Fri, 12 Oct 2007 12:25 pm
> Subject: Editing PDFs
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> All,
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>    I'm on WinXP with Acrobat 8.
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>    I'm trying to slightly edit some text on PDF drawings and I keep
> running into problems. From what I've gathered (and, indeed, it worked
> on one drawing), if you have the fonts used in a document on your
> system, you should be able to lightly edit a PDF. I need to change a bit
> of text. The font used was Arial Narrow, which is on my system. I
> couldn't change it. The drafter changed it to Arial, which is also on my
> system, but I still can't edit it. When I try, I get the message that
> one or more fonts used in it are not on my system. I need to check with
> the drafter to see if there are other fonts used besides that, which
> aren't on my system, which might be the case. However, there are a LOT
> of fonts on my system, so I'm not sure about that. By the by, he did say
> it was TT Arial, which is what I have. Is there something I'm missing?
> Why did it work on one of the drawings but not on the others? Would it
> work if I delete all of the standard drafting stuff, such as the box
> with that includes the drafter's name, drawing name, and all that stuff
> on the bottom right corner? (I'm about to try that right now, just to
> see.)
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> Thanks much in advance!
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> Samuel I. Beard, Jr.
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