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I have Adobe Acrobat Version 7 at work (windows XP). This is the full Adobe Acrobat (I think), not the Reader.
It has lots of options to make comments, put stamps (Approved, Denied, Review, Comment), but I can't figure out how to make a simple change to the text itself. Is that even possible with a PDF file?
Thanks
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It depends on how the PDF file was created - if the file was saved/exported from a text editor of some sort then yes, you can use the text touch up tool to make simple changes. If a paper document was scanned to create the PDF then the text is not going to be editable.
Depending on the type of change you want to do you might be able to open it in Photoshop and edit...
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Yeah, what StingMe is referring to is that a scanned something is now an image in .pdf wrapper. It's a PICTURE of text, not text itself.
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If you scanned text from paper, you could also OCR it and edit the result in a word processing/text editing program.
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Use OCR on the image, as mentioned by Seacrest.
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Sometimes I open PDF files in Illustrator (if I'm sure I have the fonts) to fill in names and dates and add a scan of my signature.
