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marika_litvinova
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October 21, 2025
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Can NOT edit Image in a PDF using MS PAINT

  • October 21, 2025
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Hi everyone,

Can anyone help me?

Some days ago adobe can not edit pic using MS paint as before.

when I work with adobe as usual, the app has started to send such messages:

When I click OK, i still can work, but when I have to edit image using MS Paint:

It shows this Error:

At the same time, he opens that file in MS Paint, but if I edit something there, it asks if I want to save changes, and if I click yes, it does not make these changes in my opened PDF document as usual, but saves it in some folder on my PC. 

 

I have tried to uninstall and install back Adobe pro, then I made the same with MS paint. I have downloaded Classic Paint (following the instructions in google), restarted PC million times, and all is the same.

 

Can you help me please?

 

[Edited: Title fixed]

 

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    marika_litvinovaAuthor
    Participating Frequently
    October 28, 2025

    Hey,

    thank you. I already did this. And still the same. And it is on ms11 only. 

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    Kerry5FFD
    New Participant
    October 27, 2025

    In step 1, My Content Editing tab only gives me Font Options. There is no option for Image Editor, as described. 

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      mrjet2025
      New Participant
      October 27, 2025

      Re-setting the external editor path was the first thing I tried and it didnt work.
      I actually would love to use the Windows 11 standard Photo Viewer as an editor with adobe, but it also impossible to set as an external editor.

       



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      mrjet2025
      New Participant
      October 27, 2025

      Hi, I`m having the exact same issue and it also started a few days ago... Did you manage to fix it?

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      marika_litvinovaAuthor
      Participating Frequently
      October 28, 2025

      just now once again made all exactly step by step as Jim_Rick6879 adviced. but no changes.

      thinks this is an issue between Adobe and Microsoft

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        creative explorer
        Braniac
        October 21, 2025

        @marika_litvinova if you have Acrobat Pro, you can actually edit with that application! I have never tried nor used Microsoft Paint, so, I can only imagine that experience.  Microsoft Paint is primarily an image editor and does not support the PDF format directly. This means you cannot open or edit PDF files in Paint without converting them first to an image format and then edit it in Paint. But that would mean, your PDF is now an image as well! 

          try67
          try67
          Braniac
          October 21, 2025

          If you read the post carefully, they are trying to edit an image inside the PDF using paint, not the entire PDF file (as the title confusingly suggests)...

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            marika_litvinovaAuthor
            Participating Frequently
            October 21, 2025

            hey, I agree, the tilte had to be done different. Was too upset to think about it 🙂 Not sure i can edit it?

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