PDF Text export question

[benm80203728]

Hello, I am designing a brochure and have been supplied the text as a PDF. The text needs editing, reformatting and the font changed which I understand is done in Acrobat Pro.

There's a lot of text and I was hoping to convert the PDF text to a format I can edit in either photoshop , illustrator or indesign.

Is there a way to export/convert  the  PDF to a type format that can be editable in one of these programs?

I would have thought this would be simple but over 1 hour on the help desk and many more searching tutorials has yielded no help.

Please, what am I missing?

[BobLevine]

PDF is an end format. While some editing is possible in Acrobat if this thing needs a lot of work you have a couple of choices.

Save it as a Word file in Acrobat and place that Word file in InDesign or purchase a third party application to convert the PDF to InDesign. There are a couple of them, PDF2ID and PDF2DTP.

[benm80203728]

Thank you for the prompt reply.

I understand its an end format but I'm a little surprised there's no way to export the text and edit inside the adobe ecosystem other than acrobat.

When i open the document in photoshop I get the text as a solid layer, not editable.

If I save that as a jpeg or scan the artwork  acrobat can read and edit it fully..but I can't edit in any of the other programs which seems weird to me as they're adobe formats, but I'm a noob.

Will look at your suggestions for a solution

Thanks again

[vladan saveljic · Accepted solution]

did you try to export your pdf in word, rtf or text from acrobat pro?

[benm80203728]

Thanks for your reply...no I haven't. This may seem obvious to you all but its only my second week on CC.

I'l try your suggestion, thanks for taking the time to answer

[Steve Werner]

In Acrobat Pro you can export text in Microsoft Word format. The particular method depends on the version of Acrobat Pro you have. Refer to Acrobat Help.

Word files can be placed and edited into InDesign.

[benm80203728]

Thank you Steve, I'm new to acrobat ( obviously) so I'll try exporting to word.

Appreciate your reply

Many tks