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Adobe Acrobat 5.0

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by danielle

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One of our Agents is in the process of scanning manuals using Adobe Acrobat 5.0. After scanning the manual the article then needs to be edited and saved as many pdf's.

She will edit a single manual and break it into a pdf for ingredients, warranties,... I've not found an efficient way to edit the pdf?s so I did some research online. I see that most of the articles refer to editing the pdf as a rtf in Word and then saving as a pdf.

Is this correct? Or is there a better way to edit pdf's?

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by timwalsh

One of the big advantages to the .pdf file format is that it allows you to create and distribute a document that cannot be easily changed.

Even the documentation that comes with Acrobat as well as online help available from Adobe states that themost efficient way to edit (change) a .pdf file is to edit (change) the base document (.doc, .rtf, .xls, etc.) the .pdf was created from and then recreate the .pdf file.

Your best bet would be to scan the document using OCR software to save the document in an editable format. Then, once the editing is complete, use Acrobat to save the document in .pdf format.

Hope this helps.

by glyall

Enfocus (www.enfocus.com) can edit pdf files.
There are others out there. Search the web
for "pdf editors". Each have their own + and -'s
You have to check each one to fit your needs.

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