Editing a read only PDF?

[sitandstay]

Hi,

Just wondering if there is a way to edit a PDF. I had a few leaflets done but the company I used have gone bust.

I want to change the leaflets slightly but rather than pay to have a few words changed I was wondering if there was a way to edit the read only file.

I am sure you can, but advice would be great.

Thanks

 

[Dan_HiHosting]

BlueBeam PDF Revu lets you do this too.

Here's the trial, the Standard edition will do fine: http://www.bluebeam.com/us/trials/

Hope that helps.

 

[Dawn Lane]

Take a look at www.pdftoword.om.

Dawn

 

[Techpaste]

You can buy Adobe Acrobat Pro 9 for around £140. I use Acrobat 10 (Aka Acrobat X) which I use to edit PDFs on a regular basis.

Hope this helps,
T

 

[bdw]

There is a free add in for MS Word that allows you to do this for nothing. All you have to do is open the PDF copy it into a Word document. make the changes then save it as a PDf again. Costs you nothing.

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[fisicx]

Same with OPenOffice - save as PDF is built into the toolbar.

And it also means you don't have to pay of MS Office.

 

[DotNetWebs]

Can all of these open the file if it's been locked by the author? (i.e it's truly 'Read Only').

Regards

Dotty

 

[bdw]

Not sure about that, I don't think so but then it should not be an issue if it is your own document.

What I do is just select the text in the PDF, copy it and paste it into the Word document. You may have to make some minor changes like adding line breaks, etc. but it is perfectly adequate for occasional use on small documents.

If you have to do lots of PDF editing on larger, more complex documents it would probably be worth paying for the right software.

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[sitandstay]

Thanks for all your advice guys

 

[Sammy86]

You can convert the PDF file into Word file using a PDF to Word convert and make the necessary changes. After the changes are made, you can convert it back into a PDF file.

 

[bdw]

Let's help your post count Sammy. Can you give us more information on what is a "PDF to Word convert"?

.

 

[Deleted member 59730]

Just wondering if there is a way to edit a PDF. I had a few leaflets done but the company I used have gone bust.

I want to change the leaflets slightly but rather than pay to have a few words changed I was wondering if there was a way to edit the read only file.

In my experience your biggest problem, if the file was created by someone else will be matching the fonts.

 

[ISGtechnology]

Yes,Nitro PDF is really good program and is easy to use