editing PDFs
editing PDFs
(OP)
All our released drawings get saved as unprotected PDFs and stored in a "vault" on the network.
Somehow a model got "lost" during a corporate "realignment", and naturally now I need to update 1 small view and a few notes.
We have Acrobat 5, but the text in the PDF was apparently not saved as text, so the normally poor editing capabilities of Acrobat are now even poorer.
I was looking at programs that claim to turn PDFs into editable Office documents, including tables and graphics. ScanSoft's PDF converter PRO 4 looks pretty interesting.
There are other programs that claim to turn PDFs into DWG or dxf format.
Any recomendations or warnings?
Thanks
Dan Timberlake
Somehow a model got "lost" during a corporate "realignment", and naturally now I need to update 1 small view and a few notes.
We have Acrobat 5, but the text in the PDF was apparently not saved as text, so the normally poor editing capabilities of Acrobat are now even poorer.
I was looking at programs that claim to turn PDFs into editable Office documents, including tables and graphics. ScanSoft's PDF converter PRO 4 looks pretty interesting.
There are other programs that claim to turn PDFs into DWG or dxf format.
Any recomendations or warnings?
Thanks
Dan Timberlake






RE: editing PDFs
RE: editing PDFs
Bradley
SolidWorks Premim 2007 x64 SP3.1
PDM Works, Intel(R) Pentium(R) D CPU
3.00 GHz, 4 GB RAM, Virtual memory 12577 MB, nVidia 3400
RE: editing PDFs
Check out Bluebeam I use it regularly to modify pdf's and really like it.
Costs about $200.
Sam
RE: editing PDFs
I recommend upgrading to the lastest Adobe Acrobat Professional. If that doesn't work, then you may need Illustrator. However, given the nature of Acrobat, you may not be able to directly do what you are asking. Just depends on how the file the itself.
Matt
CAD Engineer/ECN Analyst
Silicon Valley, CA
sw.fcsuper.com
Co-moderator of Solidworks Yahoo! Group
RE: editing PDFs
If you go with a software for editing PDF's, keep it within engineering only or anyone can change them.
Chris
SolidWorks 07 3.0/PDMWorks 07
AutoCAD 06
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