Making a pdf graphic organizer writable

[nickieshas3980131]

I have a pdf document that I would like to make the sections writable. I was told to purchase adobe illustrator but I don't see anything in the program about making the document writable. I was also told to use the prepare form option in Adobe Pro DC  but I am not creating a form can someone please help me. I am beyond frustrated at this point.

[Mylenium]

There is nothing to make "writable". Indeed creating forms is the only way to have editable data fields in a PDF and then you are bound to the limitations of the process.

Mylenium

[Larry G. Schneider]

What you are probably looking for is the OCR option (Optical Character Recognition) in Acrobat which should give you text blocks which can be modified.

[MichaelR-ACI]

Are you trying to convert a PDF into a working document in Illustrator or another application, or are you trying to make a PDF that someone can write information into?

If converting a pdf to another application, Illustrator CAN open PDF files but there are often problems with text and alignments and other oddities but it is do-able. Simply launch Illustrator, choose File>Open... and choose your .pdf file.

With Acrobat Pro DC you can also convert a PDF to a Word, Powerpoint, or Excel document. This too can have conversion issues but does a decent job most of the time. To do this, Launch Acrobat Pro DC, open your .pdf file and choose File>Export To>Microsoft Word (or spreadsheet or powerpoint)

Hope that helps

Michael Riordan

Owner/Adobe Certified Instructor

Digital DesignLab

Oak Park, IL

http://www.learnadobesoftware.com