Editing A PDF File

[JFR@adobeforums.com]

Is there a way I can edit a PDF file in Illustrator?

There are some text that I need to modify/edit, but I my client only sent me the PDF file and they can't find the original ai file that they used to create this.

I'm using Illustrator 10 (mac)

Help, please.

[Kumedwl@adobeforums.com]

Hello JFR

Couldnt you just open the pdf in illustrator, make the change and resave it as a pdf?

[Wade_Zimmerman@adobeforums.com]

Yes that would be the preferred method anyway!

[JFR@adobeforums.com]

hi Kumedwl and Wade,

Thanks for the input. Can you point me on how to edit the PDF in Illustrator? I did open the PDF file in Illustrator 10 and tried editing the text but I can't seem to find a way to edit the objects/elements (not sure what the right terminology to use) such texts.

I'm a newbie and the help section is not, well...very helpful.

Janie

[jonf@adobeforums.com]

If it was created as text, you should be able to edit like any other text in Illustrator. Is the text converted to outline? Or part of a raster image?

[Wade_Zimmerman@adobeforums.com]

I'll take a look send to if you wish:

[email]wzphoto@verizon.net[/email]

[Dee Holmes]

I'm betting I'll be an embedded object.

[lee_vickers@adobeforums.com]

If the text has been split into seperate paths by the PDF process, select text with hollow arrow, copy/cut, make new insertion point with text tool, and paste. Then, most of the time, you'll have a complete run of editable text. It's a pretty messy way of editing as the formatting goes out of the window. If you have full Acrobat, can't you change text that way?