Expert: Amy - 7/30/2007

Question
I have a pdf file that I want to edit. It is made up of images and text. The only page in colour is the cover.
Am I able to open this pdf file with in design so that I can edit the document and replace some text? If not, what would be my best method of editing the pdf file?

Many thanks

Answer
Hi Charles,

I'm not a big InDesign user so I can't tell you for certain that you can't use it, but I'd open it with Illustrator.

You'll have to choose only ONE page to open at a time. Make your changes, then save that page with a new name (as PDF).

Change all the pages you need to change and you'll have a single PDF file for each new page.

Then you'll need to combine the new PDF pages. Do you have Acrobat Professional? That's how I combine PDF documents. It's fairly simple, as there's a Create PDF from multiple files menu command.

If you don't have Acrobat Professional, look on the internet for a free downloadable utility specific to your platform that combines PDF files.

There's a way to combine them using Illustrator but the instructions are a little long-winded, so I won't go into that here.

Let me know what tools you have and if I can help you further,

Amy Pace