Creating PDF files which are editable in Adobe Reader

Creating PDF files which are editable in Adobe Reader

[Tobias Burnus]

Hi,

does anyone know how to enable the editing functionality in PDFs files?

Adobe Reader 8.x seems to be able to edit PDFs which have been marked as
such.
(Editting: Highlighting and adding comment boxes + saving the modified
files.
See: http://www.adobe.com/products/reader/ -> e.g. Feature tour)

I actually failed to find a description for this in
http://www.adobe.com/devnet/pdf/pdf_reference.html
(It might be hidden in TABLE 3.20, p. 123. I'm not good at reading
standards and I'm sure Adobe won't make this feature too obvious.)

Tobias,
who finds Adobe Reader 8 a slow resource hog
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Re: Creating PDF files which are editable in Adobe Reader

[Martin Schröder]

2007/5/23, Tobias Burnus <burnus@net-b.de>:
> does anyone know how to enable the editing functionality in PDFs files?

Buy software from Adobe.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adobe_LiveCycle_Reader_Extensions

Best
   Martin
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Re: Creating PDF files which are editable in Adobe Reader

[luigi scarso]

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On 5/23/07, Tobias Burnus <burnus@net-b.de> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> does anyone know how to enable the editing functionality in PDFs files?
>
> Adobe Reader 8.x seems to be able to edit PDFs which have been marked as
> such.
> (Editting: Highlighting and adding comment boxes + saving the modified
> files.
> See: http://www.adobe.com/products/reader/ -> e.g. Feature tour)


[OT]
It's not usable now, but it looks  cool
 http://pdfedit.petricek.net/

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Re: Creating PDF files which are editable in Adobe Reader

[Elliot Clifton]

Alas, as has already been said, the LiveCycle feature is proprietary
and not free. So you won't be able to use it from ConTeXt.

One alternative on Windows maybe Foxit PDF Reader which is available
for free, and can do some of what you want with low-cost add-ons.

http://www.foxitsoftware.com/pdf/rd_intro.php

The 'pro-pack' allows annotation:
http://www.foxitsoftware.com/pdf/reader_2/addons.htm#advanced

And there is also a Foxit PDF editor as well, but that is more expensive.

You might also look at PDFill

http://www.pdfill.com/

Of course neither solutions is as convenient or as effective as being
able  to send annotatable and fill-able files to anyone with Adobe
Reader. But this software may still be of interest.

Elliot
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