The Baron Posted February 3, 2007 Share Posted February 3, 2007 Hi, I've got a job application form in pdf format, and I can't find any software to edit it. Acrobat doesn't seem to want to edit any of the file, and PDFpenPro crashes every time I try to save the document. Anyone got any other ideas? TIA, TheBaron Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/40977-app-to-edit-pdf-files/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
alicheusz Posted February 3, 2007 Share Posted February 3, 2007 .... Acrobat doesn't seem to want to edit any of the file..... Did you try Acrobat 8 professional? These app rocks you can do anything with your pdf. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/40977-app-to-edit-pdf-files/#findComment-292685 Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Baron Posted February 3, 2007 Author Share Posted February 3, 2007 Did you try Acrobat 8 professional? These app rocks you can do anything with your pdf. I did try Acrobat 8 Pro, it opens the file alright, but I can't seem to find a way to add text - I expected a 'Word' trpe layout to choose fonts etc, but I didn't have any luck... I'll try again, thanks. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/40977-app-to-edit-pdf-files/#findComment-292688 Share on other sites More sharing options...
sHARD>> Posted February 3, 2007 Share Posted February 3, 2007 Once you make a PDF, you cannot edit it. Later versions of Acrobat add some abilities to remove text and manipulate graphics, but PDF is *not* an editing format, so you cannot edit things in PDF. And there's no reason to either, unless your goal is to...steal someone elses PDF and use the design or something. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/40977-app-to-edit-pdf-files/#findComment-292751 Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Baron Posted February 3, 2007 Author Share Posted February 3, 2007 And there's no reason to either, unless your goal is to...steal someone elses PDF and use the design or something. Its a job application, and rather than print it out and fill it in I would like to do it all electronically (needs to be there 10am on Monday morning!) PDFpenPro seems like a great app letting you fill in the blank spaces on the form, but as soon as I try to save, my cpu load goes to 100% and the app freezes. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/40977-app-to-edit-pdf-files/#findComment-292816 Share on other sites More sharing options...
A Nonny Moose Posted February 3, 2007 Share Posted February 3, 2007 You can put it into Pages and then utilize Pages textbox features to place the text in a layer above the pdf file. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/40977-app-to-edit-pdf-files/#findComment-292930 Share on other sites More sharing options...
alicheusz Posted February 3, 2007 Share Posted February 3, 2007 I did try Acrobat 8 Pro, it opens the file alright, but I can't seem to find a way to add text - I expected a 'Word' trpe Once you make a PDF, you cannot edit it. Later versions of Acrobat add some abilities to remove text and manipulate graphics, but PDF is *not* an editing format, so you cannot edit things in PDF. Acrobat don't have WYSIWYG editing functionality, you can fill forms, make coments, sign. As sHARD mentoin this is rather universal format for final printing If documents with you working have simple format style, than you can try export to word, reformat and print it to pdf again. This is dirty way. Why just you don't use Pages or Open Office and print final work to PDF. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/40977-app-to-edit-pdf-files/#findComment-292973 Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Baron Posted February 3, 2007 Author Share Posted February 3, 2007 Acrobat don't have WYSIWYG editing functionality, you can fill forms, make coments, sign. As sHARD mentoin this is rather universal format for final printing If documents with you working have simple format style, than you can try export to word, reformat and print it to pdf again. This is dirty way. Why just you don't use Pages or Open Office and print final work to PDF. Thanks all. I'll give Pages a go, think I have iWork somewhere. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/40977-app-to-edit-pdf-files/#findComment-293070 Share on other sites More sharing options...
DiaboliK Posted February 4, 2007 Share Posted February 4, 2007 also try omnigraffle : http://www.omnigroup.com/applications/omnigraffle/ Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/40977-app-to-edit-pdf-files/#findComment-293117 Share on other sites More sharing options...
sg Posted July 8, 2008 Share Posted July 8, 2008 the mac Acrobat Reader can let you fill in a PDF form, but you cant save the data, you can only print it. on windows you can save it and email it to people. if you require to save this data in a form, you will have to get VMWare and install Acrobat for windows, thats really the only option. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/40977-app-to-edit-pdf-files/#findComment-811831 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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