Need to edit or update a PDF? We’re here to help!

[Tariq Dar]

Need to make updates to a file, but can’t find the original? You can edit paper or PDF documents with Acrobat DC.

Learn how quick and easy it is to Edit text and images in PDF documents with Adobe Acrobat DC on your machine. You can also edit PDF files on iOS and Android tablets with an Acrobat Pro DC subscription. Don't have it? Get one here.

• Open a PDF in Acrobat, and then choose Tools > Edit PDF > Edit.

• You edit a PDF one page at a time. For more extensive editing or to make global formatting changes across the entire document, edit the original document. If the original isn’t available, you can save the PDF as a Microsoft Word document or PowerPoint presentation. Then edit and re-create the PDF.

If you are just beginning with Acrobat, use our Video tutorial.

If you are already using Acrobat, here are a few more amazing tips to use Edit tool to make changes in PDF document:

 

Still can’t edit? This may mean either Acrobat DC is not installed, or it is not set as a default PDF program or may be specific to your file. You may also visit FAQ about PDF forms.

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[potusAl]

Does anyone know an easy way to mass change an unembedded font to an embedded font?

[Bevi Chagnon - PubCom.com]

Write a batch script or an Acrobat Action Wizard that uses the Embed Fonts utility in the Preflight and Standards tools.

[slamin]

I am trying to edit a PDF with Acrobat amd am doing exactly what all instructions tell me to do. However, whatever I type in does not display. These are forms I previously was able to edit, al of a sudden a few weeks ago I could nolonger edit. CHAT was no help yet all documentation tells me I should be able to continue doing what I have always done.

[MaryHelenShuff]

But...."editing" a PDF will destroy all 508-compliant TAGs. This didn't used to happen. 

Saw on another post that an Adobe Employee's answer to the problem was to "change your workflow" and make sure the source doucment is correct. Seriously? Why even have the EDIT function inside Acrobat if it destroys 508-compliant TAGs?!?

Adobe should FIX.