Film-Tech Forum ARCHIVE: PDF editing software

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Posted by Gordon McLeod (Member # 33) on 02-02-2007, 06:05 PM:

I did a quick search and was wondering what software other people like to edit an existing PDF file
I was looking at many online packages but all weemed a little vague as to what they can do

Posted by Joe Redifer (Member # 3) on 02-02-2007, 06:13 PM:

Maybe Photoshop. PDFs are exactly like printed documents, except totally different.

Posted by Bobby Henderson (Member # 840) on 02-02-2007, 06:31 PM:

Adobe Illustrator, Adobe InDesign and Adobe Acrobat Professional offer the best capability to edit existing PDFs. Applications like Photoshop, Flash, Premiere, etc. can create specialized PDFs.

Acrobat Pro can do a lot of straight modifications and provide a lot of other automated capabilities. Illustrator and InDesign are more geared to professional graphics and publishing, supporting the highest PDF/X content creation standards.

QuarkXpress has some decent PDF creation capability, but it is not as robust as the Adobe-branded stuff.

A lot of the more affordable PDF creation/reading tools on the market are geared to compete with the basic capabilities of Acrobat Professional. I would expect to see lots more applications, even MS Office, offer a lot of basic PDF editing capability now that Adobe made some of the core technologies in PDF open source.

Posted by Rick Raskin (Member # 1561) on 02-03-2007, 12:12 PM:

After trying another popular PDF editor/creator and finding issues, I went back to Acrobat Pro. No regrets.

Posted by Leo Enticknap (Member # 534) on 02-03-2007, 02:53 PM:

I use Acrobat Standard, because it's significantly cheaper than Professional and as far as I can tell, the only thing Pro does that Standard doesn't is to create documents with form fields which people who only have the reader can fill in and save. As I don't need that facility, it didn't seem worth paying an extra £80 for.

Acrobat is a fantastic package, and about the only application which has a three-figure price tag I don't mind paying. Its OCR and metadata fields make creating a document from scanned pages which is easily navigable and text-searchable dead easy.