Changing pages and editing text
You don’t need another program to tidy up a PDF before sending it. You can rearrange its pages and correct its text right in the editor, while it is still a draft.
Manage pages
- Choose Actions, then Manage pages, or the Manage pages button on the Pages tab on the right.
- Each page has buttons to move it earlier or later, turn it left or right, copy it or remove it. You can also drag pages into a new order.
- To add pages from another PDF, choose Add pages from a PDF and pick up to 5 files. Their pages appear at the end, marked “Added”, and you can move them anywhere.
- Choose Apply changes. Nothing changes until you do.
- Fields move with their pages, and turn with them if a page is turned.
- A copied page starts without fields.
- Removing a page removes its fields too. The dialog tells you how many before you apply.
- The finished document can have up to 100 pages, and the PDFs you add can be up to 15 MB together.
Edit the document’s text
Spotted a wrong date, name or price in the PDF? Choose Edit text in the toolbar, click the text you want to change, type the correction and choose Apply changes.
The old words are taken out of the file, not just covered over, so the background stays as it was. The new words are written in the document’s own font wherever it has the letters you type; otherwise in the closest standard font, and the editor warns you (“Similar font”). Text after your change on the same line moves along to fit.
- Make one change per line, then apply it before changing that line again.
- Turned or slanted text, and text that is really a picture (such as a scan), can’t be edited.
- To remove words, keep the ones you want; a line can’t be cleared completely.
- If your new text runs past the edge of the text on the page, you are warned so you can shorten it.
- After applying, Undo in the banner puts the previous version back.
Placing fields is paused while you edit text. Choose Done to go back to placing fields; if you have changes you haven’t applied, you are asked whether to discard them.
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