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

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.

By: dafyk

dafyk — Tue, 04 Oct 2011 07:05:05 +0000

PDF Studio cant edit existing text in pdf documents, what a shame

By: Kent

Kent — Fri, 26 Aug 2011 20:30:51 +0000

The limit is not up to 10MB and no more than 100 pages. Nice…

By: Mark

Mark — Sat, 06 Nov 2010 17:38:05 +0000

Open Office has a PDF extension that will load the PDF into a “Draw” document. You can then edit each element, including the text.

By: Vega

Vega — Tue, 19 Oct 2010 17:17:52 +0000

I tried using Preview but the PDF form I wanted to fill out didn’t have the proper fields / fields weren’t recognized by Preview. Do you know any way around this pls?

By: Misita

Misita — Wed, 18 Aug 2010 13:09:53 +0000

How did you write the text over the pdf? Is it a new version of Snow Leopard?
On Mine ( Mac 10.5.8) I don’t see the option of writing over pdf. In Annotations can add notes – but they appear on the side of the pdf – not ON it.
The text tool doesn’t do anything when I click on it.

By: Athene

Athene — Thu, 03 Jun 2010 12:18:05 +0000

http://www.coherentpdf.com/proview.html doesn’t say anything about editing existing text, only adding text.

By: Athene

Athene — Thu, 03 Jun 2010 12:15:34 +0000

http://www.pdfescape.com will not handle files over 2MB or 50 pages, but it is free.

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