edit PDF

Lynne Desrochers · March 18, 2013, 04:24:04 PM

I'm having an issue with a PDF. We got a PDF from the company, it's got one thing on it that they want to change. We print it to paperport (version 12), we convert it to edit it and then it's blown up from 127 kb to 6.6 MB. Such a silly thing. Does anyone have any quick and easy answers?

Thank you.

Jeff Zylstra · March 18, 2013, 05:12:25 PM

Quote from: Lynne Desrochers on March 18, 2013, 04:24:04 PM
I'm having an issue with a PDF. We got a PDF from the company, it's got one thing on it that they want to change. We print it to paperport (version 12), we convert it to edit it and then it's blown up from 127 kb to 6.6 MB. Such a silly thing. Does anyone have any quick and easy answers?

Thank you.

If you print from PaperPort to the PaperPort printer or another PDF printer, does that reduce the size of the file? It might be that the file has several "layers" in it, that take up some room, and that "flattening" the file and making it "2 dimensional" will undo that. Of course, I don't know a lot about PDF files, but it's just a guess.

Lynne Desrochers · March 18, 2013, 06:05:32 PM

Thanks Jeff, I tried printing it to Cute PDF and it just made it bigger.

Billy Welsh · March 18, 2013, 07:02:29 PM

Are you editing with PaperPort?

No experience with PP, but Acrobat will flatten a file for you which usually reduces the file size.

JohnGage · March 19, 2013, 12:40:47 PM

Another thought it to save the file to your Paperport folder - don't print it just save the original to that folder. Then try to convert and see what happens to that file size. Will still probably increase but perhaps not so much that it becomes unacceptable.

Lynne Desrochers · March 19, 2013, 05:28:55 PM

Thanks for the suggestions, I will go back and try it this way and see what happens! I've tried getting her to edit with Adobe, but she doesn't seem to think it's that easy.

Jim Jensen · March 20, 2013, 08:20:29 AM

If you have Adobe Standard or better, you could put a white box over the info that needs to be changed, then use the typewriter function to type in the new info. When doing this, I usually re-print to PDF to flatten the images so the box and new text can't be deleted or moved.

Billy Welsh · March 20, 2013, 09:58:21 AM

What Jim said (methinks he is telepathic - a thought thief as opposed to thought police

).

There is almost always a way to do it in Acrobat, so long as the PDF is not locked down too hard. It is not always as straightforward as editing existing text, as Jim's suggestion indicates, but doable nonetheless.