how do I type into a pdf file???

[z0mb13]

I want to type into a letter of recommendation for grad school, how do I type into the pdf file?

TIA

 

[Viper GTS]

You need to have the full version of Acrobat (ie not the reader) unless the PDF was created with text boxes pre-defined.

Viper GTS

 

[Colt45]

buy acrobat

 

[notfred]

Originally posted by: z0mb13
I want to type into a letter of recommendation for grad school, how do I type into the pdf file?

TIA

You can't. PDFs are designed to be secure that way so that you can't do stuff like improve what your teachers said about you.

 

[Jmmsbnd007]

Originally posted by: notfred

Originally posted by: z0mb13
I want to type into a letter of recommendation for grad school, how do I type into the pdf file?

TIA

You can't. PDFs are designed to be secure that way so that you can't do stuff like improve what your teachers said about you.

So that's why everyone uses them... does it take a password to edit them? What about hexediting? Heheh...

 

[z0mb13]

Originally posted by: notfred

Originally posted by: z0mb13
I want to type into a letter of recommendation for grad school, how do I type into the pdf file?

TIA

You can't. PDFs are designed to be secure that way so that you can't do stuff like improve what your teachers said about you.

HEH No I want to REQUEST a letter of recommendation, and I want to type my name instead of writing it....

guess that I have to go to kinkos to borrow their typing machine....(wait kinkos does have typing machine rite??)

 

[z0mb13]

Originally posted by: Jmmsbnd007

Originally posted by: notfred

Originally posted by: z0mb13
I want to type into a letter of recommendation for grad school, how do I type into the pdf file?

TIA

You can't. PDFs are designed to be secure that way so that you can't do stuff like improve what your teachers said about you.

So that's why everyone uses them... does it take a password to edit them? What about hexediting? Heheh...

what is hexediting?

 

[Jmmsbnd007]

Originally posted by: z0mb13

Originally posted by: Jmmsbnd007

Originally posted by: notfred

Originally posted by: z0mb13
I want to type into a letter of recommendation for grad school, how do I type into the pdf file?

TIA

You can't. PDFs are designed to be secure that way so that you can't do stuff like improve what your teachers said about you.

So that's why everyone uses them... does it take a password to edit them? What about hexediting? Heheh...

what is hexediting?

Manually editing the file. Search on google for one.

 

[Nothinman]

what is hexediting?

hexediting is manually editing a file's bytes but instead of having them displayed as 'normal' ACSII text they're displayed as hexidecimal values.

 

[z0mb13]

Originally posted by: guapo337
adobe gives five free PDF conversions. make a word document and convert.

err how?

Do I do this in word or in adobe???

PLIZZ tell me

 

[Prodigy^]

type it in Word so the ass format known as .pdf will hopefully die

 

[Nothinman]

type it in Word so the ass format known as .pdf will hopefully die

Right, because MS' proprietary format is better than Adobe's proprietary format.

 

[Slickone]

I've tried editing a PDF w/ the full Acrobat once. Total PITA. Never could get it to do right. Though I'm not a M$ fan, and stay as far away from IE as I can, I'd rather use Word than Acrobat. And Paint Shop Pro rather than Photoshop.

 

[Nothinman]

I've tried editing a PDF w/ the full Acrobat once. Total PITA. Never could get it to do right. Though I'm not a M$ fan, and stay as far away from IE as I can, I'd rather use Word than Acrobat. And Paint Shop Pro rather than Photoshop.

Most people create PDFs by making the doc in another program, like Word, then printing it to the Adobe PDF distiller. What's cool, is you can get the same functionality for free from Ghostscript on Linux and it's not terribly hard to setup a Samba shared PDF printer that way.

 

[Slickone]

So it doesn't really support editing PDF's?


I found this I had asked awhile back w/ no replies:

I'm tryng to use Acrobat 5, having never used the editor before. The built in help isn't helping me much.

One problem, I'm trying to edit a PDF someone else made, using the Touch Up Text Tool, and when i edit text, the text I replace is bold, but the other text already in the PDF is not. I've tried looking in the Text Attributes, but there is no Bold selection. And though after typing the new text, the font listed is different from the rest, I changed it to match. The text is within drawn lines like a table (and it may be).

Another thing is it's a little squirrelly and very easy to move things around screwing it up, that I can't move back, since the Undo is is greyed out a lot of the times (why?).

How do you delete a row?

Also, how to you start a blank new PDF? There is no 'New' selection.

I installed the other options with it like the Distiller. Is it needed? Also installed the 'Accessories'.