How to edit, insert comments and make corrections on a PDF document?
Autor wątku: oligyp
oligyp
oligyp
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angielski > hiszpański
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Apr 5, 2010

Hello everybody, I just wanted to know if there is a way I can edit, insert comments and make corrections on a PDF document. Sometimes I get PDFs to correct or translate but have to send them back because I don't know how to work on them. Can you help? Is there any other program that can be used for PDfs? Thanks for your help.

 
Portals
Portals
Local time: 14:49
francuski > angielski
PDF documents Apr 6, 2010

It might depend on the required response format, but I would copy and paste into a word document, do my work and then (in word 2007) publish as PDF or (in word 2003) use CutePDF to "print" as a PDF document.

 
Ali Alsaqqa
Ali Alsaqqa  Identity Verified
USA
Local time: 15:49
angielski > arabski
Adobe Acrobat 9 Pro Apr 6, 2010

Hi

I think Adobe Acrobat 9 Pro can do this. check it out :

http://www.adobe.com/products/acrobatpro/features/

But I must worn you that it cost a fortune, 449$


 
John Fossey
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Kanada
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Członek ProZ.com
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francuski > angielski
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It depends Apr 6, 2010

If it's an editable pdf you will need one of Adobe's editing tools, or one of a competitor's. If the pdf actually consists of uneditable images or scans, that won't help.

I use ABBYY Finereader to convert the pdf to a Word .doc file, and work on the Word document created instead.


 
Giffted
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angielski > hiszpański
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Adding to John Comment.... Apr 6, 2010

John is right.
Infix PDF Editor is a great tool for that porpouse.
A cheaper one is PDF Viewer by Docu-Track, but it can be tricky. It doesn't really allow you to edit the files, but you can create txt boxes and type in the PDF document. Adobe will recognize those as txt boxes and it is possible to remove them.
DeskPDF by docudesk will allow you to convert the PDF into a word document, that you can edit and "re-convert" to pdf. You do have to be careful with the formatting and
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John is right.
Infix PDF Editor is a great tool for that porpouse.
A cheaper one is PDF Viewer by Docu-Track, but it can be tricky. It doesn't really allow you to edit the files, but you can create txt boxes and type in the PDF document. Adobe will recognize those as txt boxes and it is possible to remove them.
DeskPDF by docudesk will allow you to convert the PDF into a word document, that you can edit and "re-convert" to pdf. You do have to be careful with the formatting and OCR recognition.
There are other free software that will let you do the same thing, but be careful when charging for that work, there can be a lot of work involved with the formatting of the documents when you have to convert them back and forth.
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Kaoru
Kaoru "Kay" Shibuya  Identity Verified
USA
Local time: 12:49
angielski > japoński
For annotation Apr 6, 2010

I use PDF-XChange Viewer to insert annotaions and such to pdf files.

http://pdf-xchange-viewer.en.softonic.com/

Kay


 
Lourdes Sanchez
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hiszpański > angielski
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editing Apr 6, 2010

In case you are out of the software to help you and in a pinch select the whole document (ctrl A), copy the document (ctrl C) and paste it into a Word document (ctrl V). Hopefully your document does not have much formatting. Edit your document and when you save the final corrections choose the PDF option

 
ibz
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angielski > niemiecki
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PDF pen Apr 6, 2010

If you just need to add comments, highlight certain paragraphs and so on, I can recommend PDF pen as a very inexpensive alternative to the Adobe full version. I'm not sure if it only works on MAC, though.
Hdh,
Irene


 
oligyp
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Thanks all for the help... Apr 6, 2010

All your suggestions are very helpful and I think I might try a couple of them. I was confused because sometimes I get PDFs to translate or just to review but I can't do any changes or edits to the document because I either don't have the right for it or it's just not editable so I was looking for some help on how to go about it. Has anybody heard of a software that helps with this called Fox or something like that? Again, thanks for your help!

 
István Hirsch
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angielski > węgierski
I think.. Apr 7, 2010

...it is Foxit PDF editor. I have not tried it.

 
Xuguang Wang
Xuguang Wang
Chiny
Local time: 03:49
angielski > chiński
Foxit PDF editor or Adobe Acrobat 9 Pro can help you to do it. Apr 7, 2010

Foxit PDF editor or Adobe Acrobat 9 Pro can help you to do it.

 


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