How to change files text in Photoshop or Ilustrator?

Hi

If they give you a .psd, edit it in Photoshop.

If they give you an .ai, edit it in Illustrator.

If it's a PDF, it depends. Best practice is to edit in the source file and make a new PDF. That being said, editing in Acrobat became pleasant in Acrobat XI and is quite nice in Acrobat DC.

If the file came from Illustrator and maintained Illustrator capabilities during the Save As > PDF, then you can edit the PDF with Illustrator. They are both based on the PostScript©.

Open one of your PDFs and go to File > Document Properties. Show us a screen shot from this section.

Not all PDFs are made by Adobe, and those made by other applications may not be easy to edit. Some folks make proper PDFs and some don't.

"How can you tel the font and size of the clients wording to then match it?"

In Photoshop and Illustrator, use the Type tool (T) and click in the text. Look in the character panel or the bar at the top (options bar in PS; Control panel in Illustrator). In Acrobat, use the Edit PDF tool > Edit tab and click an insertion point in the text to see what was used (Format section). The text will flow within a frame, but not across frames or pages in Acrobat.

"Change the color"

This is easier in PS and AI because there is an eyedropper tool. In Acrobat it's harder, but if you are editing, it will pick up the current color.

"Edit-Replace"

Which program? And is it text or does it just look like text?

"text in ai > edit in ps"

I would try both and tell the person why Illustrator works better!

Some of these are generic answers. Start a new thread for each specific issue with screenshots, but ask again here for clarification.

~Jane

An AI file is by its nature an Illustrator file, so edit it there if you have the program. The rest is 100% irrelevant. PDFs are not meant for editing, of course there will be differences in how e.g. Photoshop rasterizes images vs. how Acrobat displays text and so on. PDF "text" may not evcen be searchable/ editable text and be made up of individual characters, so it's natural that sometimes search & replace won't work. Anything you do to actually edit PDF content more or less qualifies as atrocious hacking (outside the dedicated functions of specific PDF tools for print production). The rest is about communicating with your client and previous agencies as well as obtaining native InDesign, Illustrator and Photoshop files to implement your changes if and when possible. Again, mucking around with PDFs has its limitations and isn't a viable workflow to the point where most people will simply re-create the artwork from scratch to have full control over it.

Mylenium