my profile | my password | search | faq & rules | forum home

» Film-Tech Forum ARCHIVE   » Community   » Film-Yak   » PDF editing software

Author Topic: PDF editing software Gordon McLeod Film God Posts: 9532 From: Toronto Ontario Canada Registered: Jun 99 posted 02-02-2007 06:05 PM                     I did a quick search and was wondering what software other people like to edit an existing PDF file I was looking at many online packages but all weemed a little vague as to what they can do  |  IP: Logged Joe Redifer You need a beating today Posts: 12859 From: Denver, Colorado Registered: May 99 posted 02-02-2007 06:13 PM                        Maybe Photoshop. PDFs are exactly like printed documents, except totally different.  |  IP: Logged Bobby Henderson "Ask me about Trajan." Posts: 10973 From: Lawton, OK, USA Registered: Apr 2001 posted 02-02-2007 06:31 PM                     Adobe Illustrator, Adobe InDesign and Adobe Acrobat Professional offer the best capability to edit existing PDFs. Applications like Photoshop, Flash, Premiere, etc. can create specialized PDFs. Acrobat Pro can do a lot of straight modifications and provide a lot of other automated capabilities. Illustrator and InDesign are more geared to professional graphics and publishing, supporting the highest PDF/X content creation standards. QuarkXpress has some decent PDF creation capability, but it is not as robust as the Adobe-branded stuff. A lot of the more affordable PDF creation/reading tools on the market are geared to compete with the basic capabilities of Acrobat Professional. I would expect to see lots more applications, even MS Office, offer a lot of basic PDF editing capability now that Adobe made some of the core technologies in PDF open source.  |  IP: Logged Rick Raskin Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1100 From: Manassas Virginia Registered: Jan 2003 posted 02-03-2007 12:12 PM                     After trying another popular PDF editor/creator and finding issues, I went back to Acrobat Pro. No regrets.  |  IP: Logged Leo Enticknap Film God Posts: 7474 From: Loma Linda, CA Registered: Jul 2000 posted 02-03-2007 02:53 PM                        I use Acrobat Standard, because it's significantly cheaper than Professional and as far as I can tell, the only thing Pro does that Standard doesn't is to create documents with form fields which people who only have the reader can fill in and save. As I don't need that facility, it didn't seem worth paying an extra £80 for. Acrobat is a fantastic package, and about the only application which has a three-figure price tag I don't mind paying. Its OCR and metadata fields make creating a document from scanned pages which is easily navigable and text-searchable dead easy.  |  IP: Logged

All times are Central (GMT -6:00)

Printer-friendly view of this topic

Hop To: Select a Forum: Category: Operations -------------------- Digital Cinema Forum Film Handlers' Forum Large Format Forum Ground Level Feature Info, Trailer Attachments & REAL Credit Offsets Category: Community -------------------- Film-Yak Film Handlers' Movie Reviews The Afterlife Bob Maar's Joke-A-Thon Category: Classified -------------------- Equipment and Supplies Wanted/For Sale Help Wanted/Seeking Employment Category: System -------------------- Software Beta Testing Forum

The Film-Tech Forums are designed for various members related to the cinema industry to express their opinions, viewpoints and testimonials on various products, services and events based upon speculation, personal knowledge and factual information through use, therefore all views represented here allow no liability upon the publishers of this web site and the owners of said views assume no liability for any ill will resulting from these postings. The posts made here are for educational as well as entertainment purposes and as such anyone viewing this portion of the website must accept these views as statements of the author of that opinion and agrees to release the authors from any and all liability.