[G4] How to edit PDFs

[David Crandon]

How about Adobe Acrobat Reader?

David Crandn


On Thursday, August 28, 2003, at 10:39  AM, Brooks Graham wrote:

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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.
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> 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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