Editing PDF files
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Is there any tool, in which I can open a PDF file and edit it like any other editor? Acrobat allows me to insert, delete pages, but not modify content in a page. :confused: My article on a reference-counted smart pointer that supports polymorphic objects and raw pointers
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Is there any tool, in which I can open a PDF file and edit it like any other editor? Acrobat allows me to insert, delete pages, but not modify content in a page. :confused: My article on a reference-counted smart pointer that supports polymorphic objects and raw pointers
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Is there any tool, in which I can open a PDF file and edit it like any other editor? Acrobat allows me to insert, delete pages, but not modify content in a page. :confused: My article on a reference-counted smart pointer that supports polymorphic objects and raw pointers
What do you want to edit exactly? Editing a PDF is, if I understand it correctly, tricky business. The information in the PDF is not formatted like a structured document. It's basically just a bunch of boxes with position, size and other attributes. Perhaps it's possible to edit the text within text blocks, but I'm not so sure. -- Uh huh. Yeah.
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What do you want to edit exactly? Editing a PDF is, if I understand it correctly, tricky business. The information in the PDF is not formatted like a structured document. It's basically just a bunch of boxes with position, size and other attributes. Perhaps it's possible to edit the text within text blocks, but I'm not so sure. -- Uh huh. Yeah.
I tried my best. There is no way to go and type in text or modify existing text. I cut and pasted it in Word, and lost most formatting. My article on a reference-counted smart pointer that supports polymorphic objects and raw pointers
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I tried my best. There is no way to go and type in text or modify existing text. I cut and pasted it in Word, and lost most formatting. My article on a reference-counted smart pointer that supports polymorphic objects and raw pointers
I assume you don't have the sources for the PDF around? It's probably easier and faster to acquite the sources than to modify the contents of a PDF :) -- Uh huh. Yeah.
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I tried my best. There is no way to go and type in text or modify existing text. I cut and pasted it in Word, and lost most formatting. My article on a reference-counted smart pointer that supports polymorphic objects and raw pointers
You can make minor edits with Acrobat if the document security settings allow for it. Use the TouchUp Text Tool. I'm using Acrobat 4.0 - the tool shows up on the left toolbar at the bottom (a capital T). You can select text and make changes to it with that. Use the Tools->TouchUp menu to change text attributes (fonts size etc.). Drew.
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Is there any tool, in which I can open a PDF file and edit it like any other editor? Acrobat allows me to insert, delete pages, but not modify content in a page. :confused: My article on a reference-counted smart pointer that supports polymorphic objects and raw pointers
You need to buy a tool to edit a PDF, that's why the free product is called 'reader'. Most PDF's are compressed, but if yours is not, you can easily find and change text fields, so long as you don't change their length. PDF is a pretty decent standard and well documented, that's why there are so many free tools to allow programatic creation of PDF's. Christian NO MATTER HOW MUCH BIG IS THE WORD SIZE ,THE DATA MUCT BE TRANSPORTED INTO THE CPU. - Vinod Sharma
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You need to buy a tool to edit a PDF, that's why the free product is called 'reader'. Most PDF's are compressed, but if yours is not, you can easily find and change text fields, so long as you don't change their length. PDF is a pretty decent standard and well documented, that's why there are so many free tools to allow programatic creation of PDF's. Christian NO MATTER HOW MUCH BIG IS THE WORD SIZE ,THE DATA MUCT BE TRANSPORTED INTO THE CPU. - Vinod Sharma
Christian Graus wrote: You need to buy a tool to edit a PDF, that's why the free product is called 'reader'. Christian, Thomas said he had Acrobat (not reader) as he can add, insert and delete pages. But that he couldn't edit text inplace that already existed in the document. Michael Martin Australia mjm68@tpg.com.au "I personally love it because I can get as down and dirty as I want on the backend, while also being able to dabble with fun scripting and presentation games on the front end." - Chris Maunder 15/07/2002
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I assume you don't have the sources for the PDF around? It's probably easier and faster to acquite the sources than to modify the contents of a PDF :) -- Uh huh. Yeah.
I have the doc only as PDF. Anyway, I copied the text into Word, reformatted everything, and then used WinPDF to create the PDF again. Do you know anything about how Adobe intended these to get created/modified? Is it like you use a wordprocessor that stores it in another format and finally convert the document to PDF? My article on a reference-counted smart pointer that supports polymorphic objects and raw pointers
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I have the doc only as PDF. Anyway, I copied the text into Word, reformatted everything, and then used WinPDF to create the PDF again. Do you know anything about how Adobe intended these to get created/modified? Is it like you use a wordprocessor that stores it in another format and finally convert the document to PDF? My article on a reference-counted smart pointer that supports polymorphic objects and raw pointers
Thomas George wrote: Do you know anything about how Adobe intended these to get created/modified? Is it like you use a wordprocessor that stores it in another format and finally convert the document to PDF? Basically yes. It's a continuation of Postscript which is a format designed for printing. PDF just added some more extensions such as interactivity, digital signatures and compression. It's basically just a mechanism for presenting information, not to store it it some structured manner like Word et al. If you look at PDF codes and compare it to postscript, you'll see a striking similarity. :) -- It's not unusual to be picked up by a klingon woman It's not unusual to have fun with a klingon When I see you kicking me around It's not unusual to see me cry, I wanna die
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Is there any tool, in which I can open a PDF file and edit it like any other editor? Acrobat allows me to insert, delete pages, but not modify content in a page. :confused: My article on a reference-counted smart pointer that supports polymorphic objects and raw pointers
A really cool tool is Enfocus's PitStop Professional which lets you do single as well as global text / font / graphic changes in your PDF... Atul aabbbbbbbaaaabbbbbaabababaaaa