RE: Editing PDFs

[Fred Ridder <docudoc -at- hotmail -dot- com>]

techwritersblock -at- gmail -dot- com wrote (in part):>> 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. Whenever this kind of suggestion comes up over on the FrameUsers list, a long-time Adobe employee who happens to be a big-time expert on PDF*always* posts a message stating that Adobe Illustrator is *NOT* a general purpose PDF editor. Illustrator can open PDF files, but it may ormay not be able to understand all of the features and constructs in thatPDF, so that when you save the file it may be missing some of its originalinformation. His perennial recommendation agrees with that of Richard 
Combs: do your editing in the source application rather than in the PDF.
 
As others have pointed out, editing a vector graphic using a raster image 
editor (e.g. Photoshop or PaintShop Pro) is a bad alternative. And using 
the JPEG image format simply compounds the degradation because it is 
a lossy format that is specifically ill-suited for use on line art or text 
because it produces smudgy artifacts near abrupt color transitions.  
 
Fred Ridder 
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