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I’m sure someone has asked this before but are there any free PDF editors available that will take an existing PDF document and allow you to edit it?

I see in spiceworks a lot of people have recommended FoxITPDF as an alternative to Adobe, but it still costs around $99 for the version I would need.

Thank you.

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While not free, CutePDF Pro works really well. The PDF creator portion is free. You pay $50 for the ability to edit the file. All edits and comments are Adobe compatible and the program works great.

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Have you tried CutePDF? It has a paid and a freeware version.

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We use PDF XChange Viewer all the time. It is listed as a viewer, but it allows you to add text, images, forms, and objects. We often use a white box to cover previous text then insert different text over the top. Plus they offer a portable version which is handy to just run from a network share. It does not really open the document for full editing though.

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DinkLock,

By any chance can the white box to cover previous text be changed to Black? We need to redact information on the original PDF so it is not visible, and then we need to save the new/edited copy of the PDF.

Thanks.

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Reg1145 wrote:

DinkLock,

By any chance can the white box to cover previous text be changed to Black? We need to redact information on the original PDF so it is not visible, and then we need to save the new/edited copy of the PDF.

Thanks.

Yup, it has a color picker so you could make it any color you want.

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Sweet! That worked DinkLock.

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Don’t know how good it is but LibreOffice/OpenOffice are capable of importing PDF for editing.

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PDFZilla.com offered their product a couple of weeks ago with a license for free. It looks like the offer has expired (I thought it was until some time in February) but I have the app and the serial number.

It converts PDFs into Excel, Word and a couple other formats. It works really well considering what it has to do. Probably 80% to 90% of the ones I tried converted completely and cleanly.

If you want a copy I would expect it would be legal to give you one. (?)

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James 4221 mentioned Open Office / Libre Office. This is fine for quick and dirty editing. It opens the PDF in its drawing program from where you can export back to a PDF and retain the original as and Open Office draw file if you wish

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DinkLock…

does that allow for PDF extraction as well? Adobe Reader will not allow you to extract/copy pages into another pdf… only Adobe’s full product will.

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Milnesy wrote:

DinkLock…

does that allow for PDF extraction as well? Adobe Reader will not allow you to extract/copy pages into another pdf… only Adobe’s full product will.

I don’t think so, but their standard version (which is still priced pretty well) should be able to.

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Also found this on my wanderings that may help someone:

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We installed PDF Exchange Viewer on about 5 desktops. It is working perfectly for what we were trying to accomplish. Thanks DinLock.

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All depends on what kind of editing. I use Foxit reader’s internal editing tools and the do the job for me.

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but can this PDF Exchange Viewer edit the text such as font size, font type etc?