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PDF WRITER EDITOR

John Peckham
Good morning All


Does anybody know of a cheap ,or better free, PDF writer editor. I can print PDFs but I would like the facility to edit PDFs or turn them in to Word documents?


Thanks in anticipation.
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    if you have already invested in Office 2016 or 365 ( and I have not, but at work they have)  then that can open PDFs as a docx.

    It is not perfect but generally gets the words in the right order if not always the page formatting and images.

    Libre Office under linux can do the same sort of thing, but is at its best with PDFs that are mostly text, and quite a bit of format adjustment is often needed to correct tables and so on.
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    mapj1:

    if you have already invested in Office 2016 or 365 ( and I have not, but at work they have)  then that can open PDFs as a docx.

    It is not perfect but generally gets the words in the right order if not always the page formatting and images.


    The same goes for Word 2013 (which does everything that I need).


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    Many thanks gents I have Office 2019 so hopefully that will do the trick.
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    John Peckham:

    Many thanks gents I have Office 2019 so hopefully that will do the trick.


    Click to open the menu and click save, then save it as a Word document as you go along.


    Then when it’s all finished click the menu open again and this time it will say “Save as” instead of just save, because you already have saved it as a Word document.


    When you click “Save as” the box will come up with the same file name as you have already used with the option to save as different file types, click .pdf and you will have the finished document saved twice as a Word document and a pdf.


    As you save the pdf it will open in the browser.


    Andy B.


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    Then you can convert back the other way, but it does go a bit haywire at times.
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    It also seems to work with Word 2010, just save as PDF.


    David
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    There are pdf documents that look like text but are effectively photographs (or similar) and you cannot edit the text. You can usually spot these because you cannot search for words in the text.

    I use "pdf exchange viewer" to edit pdf.s I think this was developed before Word could handle them. It is a bit odd as it places the new text on top of the pdf document but it is excellent for filling in forms etc.
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    I pay Adobe an annual subscription (a few tens of pounds a year) to use Adobe Acrobat Pro DC - you then get the full facilities, including being able to OCR pictures of text back into proper text (although it does struggle with old fashioned type faces and poor quality images).

       - Andy.
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    AJJewsbury:

    I pay Adobe an annual subscription (a few tens of pounds a year) to use Adobe Acrobat Pro DC - you then get the full facilities, including being able to OCR pictures of text back into proper text (although it does struggle with old fashioned type faces and poor quality images).

       - Andy.


    The cost of Acrobat Pro DC is more monthly than Office 365 Business Premium per user!


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