How to edit PDFs

Brooks Graham brooksgraham at mac.com
Thu Aug 28 10:39:56 PDT 2003


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[somewhat off-topic, sorry]

I'm hoping that someone out there can help with this one:

I've just received a PDF file that is a multi-page form that I'm 
supposed to fill out and return, presumably in a PDF file.

The standard tools that ship with OS X don't help much - I can read the 
file, but not edit it.

I have Photoshop, but it rasterizes each page making it *huge*.  
"Printing" to PDF results in file(s) that are too large to deal with.

I looked at Stone PStill, but it's not clear that it can do what I 
want.  Can anyone comment on it?  It looks cool for other reasons.

Printing the pages, filling out the form by hand (*I* can't even read 
my handwriting!), scanning it back in then printing to PDF has the same 
results as Photoshop: huge files and too many of them.  And then 
someone would be forced to read my handwriting.  ;-)

Would Adobe Illustrator work for this?  It seems reasonable that it 
could make PDF files that stay in vector format (and be smaller).

Any ideas would be most welcome!

TIA

- -brooks

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Brooks Graham
brooksgraham at mac.com
http://www.brooksgraham.com/

"You can't win if you don't play."

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