How To Edit pdf Files
by Donna Bayes
If you want a software program that will allow you to edit a pdf file, you might want to consider this one. I personally haven't used it, but I have heard from others that they do and that they like it. BCL ALL PDF Converter--converts PDF files into Word in order to edit them. And allows you to change a file into a PDF file. Costs less than $75.
I thought I might share how one might personalize a pdf file without the software that actually does it. (And now you can even get that kind of software for about $75). But in the meantime, you can do this.
In the pdf file, use the graphics select tool or it may be called snapshot tool (it’s a little icon to the right of the T (text select) icon—move your arrow over the buttons until the name of the tool shows—it looks like a dotted line square). This button is one to use to grab pictures from a pdf file to use somewhere else. Once you’ve selected the snapshot tool, you will select the picture you want—in THIS case, draw a square around the entire page. You are selecting the entire page, not just a picture from it. A pdf file is really a “picture” of the original file. Right click and copy. Open up Publisher to a new page. In the case of the attached file, you’ll want to change the page setup to landscape (found under file/page setup). Put your arrow into the white page and right click and paste. That will paste the “picture” of the entire file onto your publisher page. But it will probably be too big. So scroll up to a corner and drag it down until it is small enough to fit on the page with a little border around it. Be sure to only resize a picture from a corner so you don’t distort the picture. Now, you have your file. You can now put a publisher text box OVER the text you want to change and make the font and size match. To get rid of the text underneath, you can do one of two things---either hit control T (to make the box no longer transparent) or dump white into it from the paint bucket (or whatever other color to make it match it’s surroundings) Hope this helps. It’s so much quicker for us to fix our own stuff than to do a search for the original files. When I want something, I want it now, so figured out how to do it. I’ve even taken a file that I liked, and grabbed smaller individual pictures from it and pasted it into publisher, then typed the text, in my own text boxes, making the text say what I wanted.