Comments on: PDF Editor for Mac OS X – What’s the best way to edit a PDF on your Mac?

By: Senan

Senan — Sat, 23 Mar 2013 04:58:08 +0000

Hi Wayne,
Thanks for your reply. Unfortunately when I right click and select “open with” I get the option to choose between Adobe Reader, Billedfremviser (translates to Picture Viewer) , Safari or Other, but not “Preview” as you mention.

I have looked under “Other”, but I do find anything called “Preview”.’

Where to find it?

Thanks,
Thomas

By: Giuseppe

Giuseppe — Fri, 01 Mar 2013 11:15:10 +0000

Thnx, this saved me time!
Ciao!

By: sandy

sandy — Sat, 29 Sep 2012 06:53:27 +0000

Hi,

Nisus Writer Pro accomplished what neither of the following – MS Word 2011, Pages.app, TextEdit.app, Adobe Acrobat, Skim.app, Preview.app etc. – failed to.
Indeed, the MS Word-generated PDF was shed clear of hyperlinks; the Pages & TextEdit pdf conversions removed even text highlights/colours. Preview, Acrobat or Skim – nothing rendered the hyperlinks readable until I re-converted the original in Nisus Write Pro. The resultant file contained the formatting, including colours and hyperlinks, You can try this one:
videotoflashmac.com/pdf-editor-for-mac/

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By: Adam Hrebeniuk

Adam Hrebeniuk — Tue, 29 May 2012 20:57:54 +0000

Mike. I posted the Kudos for Foxit above. I am going to try PDF Studio as mentioned above. Foxit claims there is a print driver issue with their product in parallells coherence but I haven’t had an issue on several networks and a variety of printers/copiers. I am sorry you experienced that. Bummer!

Comment here if you find a “best” solution.
-adam

By: Adam Hrebeniuk

Adam Hrebeniuk — Tue, 29 May 2012 20:53:31 +0000

Angus. Good call. Foxit has yet to produce their MAC OS version. Ironically I was on the hunt again for a MAC option and came back through this thread. I only have 2 apps left that require windows. It might be time for me to abandon the old Dual OS (although it’s always impressive to show people). I think I will give PDF Studio 7 Pro a shot. Thanks again Angus! -adam

By: alysia

alysia — Mon, 28 May 2012 03:36:12 +0000

I have the preview on the snow leopard 10.6 and I just want to make the text larger for my kindle reader. I have some book to put on it where the text is so small I need a magnifying glass sometimes. I have all the zoom tools to read the book on desk top, but I cannot open the pdf to make the text larger, to transfer to my reader.

and the magnify feature is not all that great on my version of kindle. so thought I’d try a pdf editor. is there some trick to open a pdf on an old book I got for free?

By: Antonio

Antonio — Fri, 25 May 2012 14:30:05 +0000

I found a pretty simple solution that seems workable. I open a PDF with Adobe Reader and then using the “Snapshot” feature found in the “edit”menu I take a snapshot of the portion of the PDF document that I want to edit. I can then simply paste it into Word and edit it…adding a text box, using text frames or shapes with a fill background to match the document in order to “delete” portions of the document, etc. Kind of limited but it has allowed me to edit many dozens of coloring book type pictures changing titles and descriptions from English to Spanish, etc. I tried a free download version of a PDF to Word convertor and found this just as easy to do. It is important for clarity of the image that you take a snapshot of that after you take the snapshot that you enlarge the view in Adobe Reader before you “copy” the image to then paste in Word. Hoep this helps someone and saves some $$. Cheers!

By: Mike

Mike — Tue, 22 May 2012 17:07:57 +0000

Just got a refund for my FoxitPDF purchase. It does not run properly with parallels.

By: Mandy

Mandy — Sat, 17 Mar 2012 15:33:52 +0000

HELP! Highlight fades on PDF (MAC)
I always study with my mac and use the highlight function in PDF to highlight sentences with different colors. But the problem is my highlights sometimes seem to…fade (like the case u marked on real paper) Every now and then the color would become so light that I can barely see it..I can’t figured out what caused it because I use the same function with every document and it’s always fine in the beginning, but later on it just seems to happen randomly (and I can’t get the color back unless i follow the faint trace and mark them all over again)

Does anyone know how to avoid this?
P.S. I am using the Preview app.

By: Josh Hogue

Josh Hogue — Sat, 10 Mar 2012 13:28:34 +0000

My concern is in extracting the annotations (highlights, underlines, notes) out of PDF files.
(1) what is the best off-line tool that let’s me extract ALL my PDFS at the same time, with cross-references to time-stamp and originating file names?
(2) can someone points me to any description of the PDF “standard”? E.g. Skim on the mac lets you take notes and highlight but these are kept separately. Skim also doesn’t let you edit highlights created by Preview. I would like to understand

By: Angus White

Angus White — Sat, 28 Jan 2012 19:07:11 +0000

Adam, I have to disagree. PDF Studio 7 Pro is the best PDF read and write-over application going!
In this discussion we’re talking about using it on Mac OS, and my business partners are also using it – one on Linux and one on Windows. We all three agree that PDF Studio 7 Pro has all the PDF creation, editing, and securing capabilities we need on any platform.
Plus, it sounds like your solution entails three different programs? Parallels+Win7_FoxitPro Business?? Instead, just get one program, PDF Studio 7 Pro, that runs on MacOSX, and have all the capabilities you need.

By: Angus White

Angus White — Sat, 28 Jan 2012 18:58:17 +0000

Qoppa Software did get PDF Studio 7 out, and it DOES let me change content – text and images – in PDF documents!
The cost went up a little ($125 for the Pro version), and I, for one, think it’s well worth it! Staying on the topic of this discussion, this tool lets me fill interactive PDF forms, type contents onto the non-interactive forms that I scan in (directly from my own flatbed printer!), and then I can do what they call “flatten” those answers onto the form so they can’t be changed by someone else. I use the digital signature option, to lock the file and add a picture of my signature.
Because (as Lilou wrote before) the files PDF Studio saves or emails (by the way, directly from inside the tool, saving another export/copy/paste) are true PDF, other people on other systems can easily read them and read and verify my signature.

By: Adam Hrebeniuk

Adam Hrebeniuk — Mon, 05 Dec 2011 19:30:24 +0000

Needing full read and write-over capabilities I have maintained the acrobat suite. However, I discovered it is much more cost effective and actually better to buy Parallels+Win7+FoxitPro Business. FoxIt Pro is simply better than the original Adobe product for editing and creating PDF’s. They claim to be currently working on a Mac OS version. You can’t beat FoxIt on any platform.

Adam

By: Lilou

Lilou — Tue, 29 Nov 2011 20:05:42 +0000

I confirm that PDF studio can not edit existing text content.

But PDF Studio 7 will allow this. The new version is coming out in December 2011.