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by cyberjan

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i have a doc which was done in corral on the website as a pdf.
I want to edit the text. My adobe Acrobat tells me I cant because the font cannot be found. Photoshop just lets me do the first page then gives me an error when i try to open it after i edit the first page. It seems to only do one page at a time.
HOw can I edit this. the original doc is on an old mac.

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by thumbsup2

Just tell Adobe Designer to substitute another font (auto select). The document will open. You do have Designer, right? Not just the Adobe Reader? Adobe (the full version) is the only thing you can use to [b]edit[/b] PDF documents.

If you had access to the original WP document, you could fix what's needed and save as a new PDF document.

by cyberjan

It is correl draw or whatever the desktop publishing was then, for a mac.
THe doc opens I use the text tool highlight it and when i press a letter it gives me the error.
there is no option to auto select that i can see. Where is it?

by dr dij

the font in the original application
(is an option when selecting create PDF)

then save as pdf and try again

by shasca

Adobe for all practical purposes is not a document editor. You'll see on the Adobe site that they state to not use it to edit documents. You should always use the program that the document was created in. Can you save as to a different file type, and then edit it in the associated application?

by cyberjan

ok i found in properties when you right click the text that you can change text however it says it cannot resolve the difference in the text so it will not change it.
I do not see auto \I will use any font
thanks
jan

by cyberjan

using my old photo shop I edited 1 page at a time. calling them pg 1 page 7 etc. when i couldnt open the pdf in photoshop after editing , i created a new pdf file using the free cute pdf software.
Then i used adobe acrobat 8 prof. to delete the whole page that was wrong,then i inserted my edited page in by inserting page1, page 7 etc.

I edited the text by using the dropper and deleting the text by painting the background color over it. Then i used the text tool to type new text in the blank space. Remember to change the color for the text, otherwise, the text is typed in the background color and doesnt show. I could not match the text but now it shows as bolded. That is good because it emphasizes the changes.
thanks for all your suggestions
Jan

by cyberjan

OK I will try that. I is just I have to drive 1 hour to Boston take the mac out of storage. Hope it still works and the doc is on it and connect it to monitor and keyboard. And edit and save the file.
I was trying to avoid that. I just bought the indesign suite and i cant do anything with the pdf!

by cyberjan

by our web designer it is just that he is on vacation. I can see in the doc that he uses a different font. It is just that he is on vacation and we need it now, of course.
It is just dates that need changing. I did the other pdf (one page in photoshop) maybe i could do it a page at a time in photoshop then put the separate pages together?

by shasca

Know the feeling we had some licenses drawn up by a legal firm with their propriatary Software. We caught a slight typo that would have created legal issues if released as is. I used Acrobat to edit it but it was ugly and painful.

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