Editing PDFs - klunky solution found

[Brooks Graham]

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Thanks go to everybody who gave their suggestions on this one.

I've ended up just using Photoshop.  The original "form" got 
rasterized, but I found that as long as I didn't rasterize text which I 
added, it remained in vector form and was still sharp when I did the 
"Save as PDF" in the print dialog.  With a little tweaking, I got the 
file size down to just over 800K per page (the original file was 75K).  
I sent the original file to a friend that has Illustrator, and it 
opened perfectly.  It appears that Illustrator would have been the 
ideal solution here, (assuming that the "Print to PDF" function works 
in Illustrator the same as Photoshop (and _almost_ all other OS X 
apps!)) but I'm not willing to spend that much at the moment.

Jason Anthony:  Although Freehand can open PDFs, it totally mangled 
this one - the formatting was all off and there was text everywhere.  A 
complete mess.  Thanks for the suggestion, though.  It got me going 
down the Illustrator path.

Oh, and I was wrong on the pricing of Acrobat Standard - it's USD$299 
not $100.  Acrobat Professional is USD$449.

Thanks again.  Crisis over.  (it was a job application, by the way ;-)

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

"There is nothing more valuable than this day."

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