Editing PDF files

[digge]

Hi

I've hit a brick wall with this one thing i want to do with a PDF file. I have a PDF file that has a form in it and loads of input fields that one can fill out and then print the document.

The problem is that there is a picture in the document that i want to remove. Every software i try either cant handle input fields altogether and therefore they just disappear. The other scenario is that they can handle input fields in that they show them and you can edit them, but once you remove the picture and save the file all the input fields are gone.

Any suggestions on a software that can do what i want? Even tried to delete the stream data using a text editor but that just lead to a corrupted file.

[ratdude747]

Re: Editing PDF files

libreoffice writer?

[digge]

Re: Editing PDF files

It wont handle the input fields, so just a static page unfortunately, at least didnt work with the version i had.

[popeye]

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snipping tool

[digge]

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snipping tool

I might have misunderstood how that program works, but looks like a screenshot tool? And if that is the case it would only give me a static page still with no input fields.

I want the output to be exactly like the original but without the image.

[b700029]

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Have you tried CAD-KAS PDF Editor? It lets you edit the "source code" of the pages directly so you can remove the references to the picture. The input fields will stay. (The UI is a little... weird and takes a bit of getting used to, but it works.)

[Per Hansson]

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I use PDF-XChange Viewer at work, it's quite good and the freeware version offers a surprising number of features.
I choose the "MSI Network Installer (64 bit)" because it removes some of the crud that the EXE installers come with, atleast used to come with...

[Th3_uN1Qu3]

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Have you tried Foxit PDF Editor? That works for me.

[digge]

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Tried both PDF-XChange Viewer and Foxit PDF Editor before posting, no luck. CAD-KAS however did work kinda, tried the trial version, however it left a watermark on it since its the trial version ofc :/

Was hoping to be able to do this without buying software for editing just one single document.

[Toasty]

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Acrobat Pro? Try a portable version of 7 or 8...

*cough* t o r r e n t *cough*

[b700029]

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Tried both PDF-XChange Viewer and Foxit PDF Editor before posting, no luck. CAD-KAS however did work kinda, tried the trial version, however it left a watermark on it since its the trial version ofc :/

Was hoping to be able to do this without buying software for editing just one single document.

CAD-KAS used to be freeware if I remember correctly.

You could also try removing watermark and saving with another PDF editor

[digge]

Re: Editing PDF files

CAD-KAS used to be freeware if I remember correctly.

You could also try removing watermark and saving with another PDF editor

Problem with that is that all others i tried will remove the input fields, think adobe made some trickery to make sure third party apps will have a hard time figuring out how that is done, cadkas probably figured it out though.

[popeye]

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Hi digge
If you have this pdf on a site what I would normally do is use acrobat to download it as pdf to my desktop then try to edit it that way. Hope this helps.


Tony

[Gianni]

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Sorry to bump this old thread, also because I have not the solution, but I want to suggest a good free tool I use a lot with PDF file:

With Free PDF Tools you can do a lot of thing, especially to remove on some PDF document the restriction like "printing not allowed" etc...

Ciao
Gianni

[digge]

Re: Editing PDF files

Sorry to bump this old thread, also because I have not the solution, but I want to suggest a good free tool I use a lot with PDF file:

With Free PDF Tools you can do a lot of thing, especially to remove on some PDF document the restriction like "printing not allowed" etc...

Ciao
Gianni

Thanks for the tip, but too late, i ended up buying cadkas, company i work for paid for it.

Looks like the software you are suggesting might actually do it as well, but as the job is done im too lazy to try it out, but hopefully it helps someone else.