How to edit a pdf file?

[xgordyx]

Need to edit a pdf file at work that was sent to me but can't remember how?

[Avanter]

Try ABBY FineReader or Solid PDF tools

[xgordyx]

Try ABBY FineReader or Solid PDF tools

Don't have either of them programs and cant download them either as i don't have admin rights, i'm just a user. The file was created by my back to back, so he must have made it up using the same programs i have. If i remember you change the name of the file from a pdf to something else, but it that long ago i was showen i don't remember.

[Nuvo]

What do you want to do? Change the meta data, simple text editing or something else?

[xgordyx]

What do you want to do? Change the meta data, simple text editing or something else?

Ye just text editing. What it is, is a report on crane defects, i just want to highlight what work that should be carried out before the crane is pull tested.

[Nuvo]

You really need some form of PDF creation tool to do this such as Adobe Acrobat or one of the many alternatives out there. There might be a freeware open source tool to let you do this. I personally use Acrobat on occasion for this task.

Maybe the office suite you are using has a PDF touch up tool that allowed you to do this in the past?

Alternatively, there are tools that let you convert the PDF into something close to its original text format such as RTF or plain text for example. This would allow you to open it an any decent word processor and edit it, once you are down you can send it to a PDF print daemon.

The print daemon is like a virtual printer which prints to a PDF file rather than to a physical device.

Maybe if you tell me what software you are using I could give you more detailed help?

[xgordyx]

You really need some form of PDF creation tool to do this such as Adobe Acrobat or one of the many alternatives out there. There might be a freeware open source tool to let you do this. I personally use Acrobat on occasion for this task.

Maybe the office suite you are using has a PDF touch up tool that allowed you to do this in the past?

Alternatively, there are tools that let you convert the PDF into something close to its original text format such as RTF or plain text for example. This would allow you to open it an any decent word processor and edit it, once you are down you can send it to a PDF print daemon.

The print daemon is like a virtual printer which prints to a PDF file rather than to a physical device.

Maybe if you tell me what software you are using I could give you more detailed help?

I think for some reason i don't have all the programs i should (i'm not on my usual computer), jsut been looking at something else, i know for sure in ms word and ms excel there was an option to convert the doc into a pdf but for some reason i don't have this option here. I'll just add a word document to the email along with the pdf file stating the stuff to be done.
Thanks for the help tho, think it's just the case of not having the tools for the job

[Nuvo]

Happy to help. There's nothing worse than not having the right tools for the job at hand.

[istoo]

i am sure there are online editors as well nuvo provided its text your editing.
I use acrobat and cutePDF here very often.

http://www.nitropdf.com/free/hammer/index.htm

an alness-ian eh, i was brought up just along the road from you in Conon...

[Nuvo]

Hmmm, Interesting. I never knew an online editor such as PDF Hammer existed. That could be useful provided that the contents of your document you wish to upload doesn't contain any sensitive information.