[G4] How to edit PDFs

[Joe Ellis]

What you really need is Acrobat Reader the latest version (free download
from www.adobe.com ). If the form was prepared properly and is not a "print
and fill in" type. Reader should allow you to fill in the various fields.

Joe Ellis


----- Original Message -----
From: "Brooks Graham" <brooksgraham at mac.com>
To: "Power Macintosh G4 List" <G4 at lists.themacintoshguy.com>
Sent: Thursday, August 28, 2003 1:39 PM
Subject: [G4] How to edit PDFs


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> [somewhat off-topic, sorry]
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> 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
>
> - -
> Brooks Graham
> brooksgraham at mac.com
> http://www.brooksgraham.com/
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