![]() ![]() BigJohn seems to have given me the definitive thing I was looking for. pdf documents? BionicJohn (TechnicalUser) 5 Jun 03 13:29 What more could you want? People sending you PDF forms that you are required to fill out and return need to have their head examined, as many people will have no choice but to use the rounabout method you desribe (much better to send a Word document).Īnd have you really purchased 'pagemaker, photoshop, premier, golive, acrobat, illustrator and probably more there somewhere' - just to handle PDFs? What were you thinking and who advised you and I wish I had that amount of money to spend on software (and presumably you don't know how to use or even what it is used for?) They can be secured, meaning that people cannot extract and change stuff in them (good for 'official' documents for example), they can be watermarked and they can be opened and read by a free application available from Adobe. ![]() They are platform independent, meaning they can be easily read on both Macs and PCs. They allow the person who created them to display their document looking exactly like how it was designed (unlike HTML), they can be small enough to display on the web or send by email or large and complex enough to use as the final hand-off file for printing by commercial offset press. PDFs - portable document format - are great. Not sure what you mean by 'upload' but all the Adobe programs you mention will allow you to create a PDF of their native file. Re: Most of the programmes won't even upload a. As long as the PDF is not protected, then there should be no problem. But if you just need the text, then all you need is the Reader (File>Export document to text) but the full version of Acrobat does this better, as it lets you select parts of the text (and also select and save a copy of graphics). bold, italic, but will be in RTF (rich text format). It will retain some of its formatting e.g. You can save the text (and graphics separately) out of a PDF, but it will not be laid out the same way. Re: Sometimes they are docs I want to use and modify myself (perhaps only save a part of). Re: Often they are forms that just need me to enter stuff in the fields - I have to download, print, write on, scan in, upload all of those.įor this you need the full version of Acrobat, which will allow you to enter data in a PDF. If it is installed on your computer, double clicking on the PDF will launch the Reader, allowing you to view the PDF (assuming you have your file associations set up - otherise launch the Reader and go to File>Open the PDF). OK - to READ PDF files, all you need is the free Acrobat Reader. pdf documents? Eggles (TechnicalUser) 5 Jun 03 09:46 ![]() Please help - what is the easiest way to work with these How to Edit. pdf document, for god's sake.Īdobe help at their site just runs you around in circles. Most of the programmes won't even upload a. that's even worse, I have to put them through something like Corel and then into Word and massage for yonks to get something reasonable.Īll the Adobe stuff I have - to my utter astonishment - seems incapable of helping me. Sometimes they are docs I want to use and modify myself (perhaps only save a part of). Often they are forms that just need me to enter stuff in the fields - I have to download, print, write on, scan in, upload all of those. pdf files that keep turning up in my inbox. Why? Looking for how the hell to work with these. I admit I have no knowledge and little interest in all things Adobe.īut I have bought pagemaker, photoshop, premier, golive, acrobat, illustrator and probably more there somewhere. ![]()
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