Question
Query on editing a PDF
I am trying to mimic the easy way to copy-edit in MS Track Changes and google document. Suggestion tool, where you can quickly strikethrough a passage and immediately type in your replacement words, as long as the insert key is enabled. Most fulltime copy editors need to do this to keep a trail of what they've changed, easily accessible to the writers.
In a PDF, as much as I try t figure it out, the procedure is much more complicated and clunky. First, we need to be in the "comment" mode for the dropdown toolbar to show the Text key with the strikethrough. We need to tap that key, then highlight the passage to be struck through.
Then logically, the next step would simply be to hit the text key and write in the new text. But from what I can see, if we do that in comment mode, it will only mark that spot with the upside down blue caret, then force you to write the changed text in a comments box in the margin.
The only way to write your changed text into the text itself is to click out of Comments mode and into Edit a PDF mode. That will allow you, after tapping the T, to write in the text. Needless to say, if you've got a paragraph where you're making multiple changes, say a half-dozen, this whole process would take about three times as long as the aforementioned Track Changes or google document suggestion tool.
Does anyone know an easier way to do this?
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