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kdfitzg
kdfitzg
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June 28, 2019
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PDF editing. I know... Still looking for advice.

  • June 28, 2019
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Hi, new to this. Any help is appreciated. I just started an internship and in our office there's a lot of cool posters and artwork on the walls, including framed news articles of the (super big, super long term) project we work on here. My boss has sent me some newer articles in PDF format that he'd like to have replace some of the older ones, and asked me to clean them up and arrange them into a presentation like the ones on the wall. These will be printed at about 20x26". This means removing rogue ads and other articles, and rearranging the content to fit the pages and make sense. However, of course, it's not as easy as opening or placing the PDF and removing content I don't want. I've tried cropping, which results in a strange grey outline and quality issues after the crop. I've tried image tracing, which is a hassle, but after trying several other things, seems to be the only way to maintain full graphic integrity from the source PDF.  I'm wondering if there's a more simple or effective approach that I'm missing and any help would be appreciated.

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Correct answer matthewn43692242

In order to do the things you're describing you would really need to rebuild the layout. Adobe Illustrator would be the best tool for this. You would be able select, copy, paste all the text, manipulate the individual images etc. but you would be basically remaking the document. It seems like that's what you would want/need to do in order to really make them match the 20x26 format you mentioned.

You could do a similar operation in Photoshop.

People will have a hard time helping if we don't know what app you're using to try to accomplish this.

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meganchi
meganchi
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June 28, 2019

Are you trying to edit the PDF in Illustrator or Acrobat DC?

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matthewn43692242Correct answer
Inspiring
June 28, 2019

In order to do the things you're describing you would really need to rebuild the layout. Adobe Illustrator would be the best tool for this. You would be able select, copy, paste all the text, manipulate the individual images etc. but you would be basically remaking the document. It seems like that's what you would want/need to do in order to really make them match the 20x26 format you mentioned.

You could do a similar operation in Photoshop.

People will have a hard time helping if we don't know what app you're using to try to accomplish this.

kdfitzg
kdfitzgAuthor
Participant
June 28, 2019

Hey, thanks. I think you're right. That's what I tried to do at first but I was missing a ton of fonts so it scared me off but I'm realizing I'll just need to pick one that best represents the ones they used. I thought it posted that I'm using Illustrator but I'm new to the forums so apologize for the confusion.

Monika Gause
Community Expert
Monika GauseCommunity Expert
Community Expert
June 28, 2019

WIthout seeing the PDFs I can't even imagine what exactly you're talking about.

You know that you can examine a file in Illustrator by looking into the layers panel?

kdfitzg
kdfitzgAuthor
Participant
June 28, 2019

It's just a PDF of a news article downloaded from the newspaper. I do know that. I'm just wondering if anyone has advice on how to best go about editing such an image because I feel like I'm making it much more tedious than it needs to be, and that maybe I'm missing something.

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