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Name: Henryhauw (by henryhauw)
Date: March 23, 2006 at 07:55:41 Pacific
OS: Win XP Pro SP2
CPU/Ram: 2.4 GHz / 512 MB
Comment:

Can any one tell me which software I can use to do simple edit of pdf files and where from the internet I can download the software.

henryhauw



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Name: bimbleweed
Date: March 23, 2006 at 15:41:56 Pacific
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You can think of a pdf file like being a photocopy of a document. In simple terms you create a pdf by creating a document with an application such as MS Word or Publisher or Excel. Once they're created you can't really edit the pdf per say, rather edit the document it originated from and re-make the pdf.

Adobe let you creat pdfs online by submitting Word, Publisher, Excel documents etc. You can sign up for 5 free pdf creations. Obviously you can buy Adobe Acrobat (Not Adobe Acrobat Reader that you can get for free) to make them when you like.

http://createpdf.adobe.com/

Hope this is clear. Do ask if it's not.


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Response Number 2
Name: Henryhauw (by henryhauw)
Date: March 24, 2006 at 18:37:10 Pacific
Reply:

Thank you very much for the advice.

Henryhauw


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Response Number 3
Name: A Certain TH
Date: March 27, 2006 at 14:29:30 Pacific
Reply:

Sorry bimbleweed, but thats completely wrong. You can easily edit .pdfs using Acrobat. You only can't doing it using Acrobat Reader (as you say).

If you have the full install, then you use the "Touch Up Text" tool, if its text you want to change, but really you can change virtually anything.

And pdf's are NOT stored like photocopies at all. Things like text boxes are stored as such, which is why Acrobat has to alert you whn it doesn't recognise fonts.

If it were a "photocopy" then the file sizes would be huge - and thats the whole point!

Anyway: I spent 4 seconds doing a Google search to see if there are free packages to do this (if you don't have Acrobat) and guess what... of course there are

Trial Software

There are probably loads of better ones, but you can probably use Google yourself...


Tom


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Response Number 4
Name: A Certain TH
Date: March 27, 2006 at 14:30:34 Pacific
Reply:

"doing" = "do"

"whn" = "when"

The majority of the rest is English...


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