Design studios often have to edit PDF documents in order to alter a document created by someone else, or to make a last minute change without having to return to the source files. This page explains how to make simple changes to text and objects using Adobe Acrobat. Adobe acrobat xi pro crop tool free you're using Adobe Acrobat 9 or earlier, the changes you'll be able to make will be extremely limited.

The 'Advanced Editing' text tools are unwieldy to say the least. If you want to make more advanced changes to adobe acrobat xi pro crop tool free content and layout of a PDF file, including text editing, image cropping and repositioning, there are two main ways to do it:. The best way to demonstrate the editing capabilities of Acrobat X is to view the video below from AdobeTV which gives a broad overview of the features available.

Links to the software for more information are below the video. If all you need to do is tweak the odd word or nudge the odd element, here's how to edit PDF documents with older versions of Acrobat. This is an example of a simple business card created and opened in Adobe InDesign. All the elements on the page have been selected to give you an idea of how it is constructed.

The logo top left is an Illustrator EPS file with the text converted to outlines. The red and yellow background boxes and white lines have been created and placed in InDesign. In short, this is a fairly typical, simple layout. Drag a small rectangle anywhere on the PDF document page and then double-click inside it.

The Crop Pages Dialogue Box will open showing the precise position of the crop box you have just created. From the drop-down menu in the top left corner, select TrimBox.

Watch the Margin Controls values and you'll see them change to the position and size of the crop box that would be required to trim the page to its finished size. You can check its accuracy by looking at the Cropped Page Size values underneath the preview image. Make a note of or copy the Margin Control values and select CropBox from the menu.

Please note - just clicking OK with TrimBox selected will not actually crop the file - you need to revert to CropBox first. Once there, enter or paste the trim values into the Margin Controls fields. In the Page Range area, select All or From The file will crop perfectly to the crop marks.

You have adobe acrobat xi pro crop tool free be patient whilst Acrobat goes through the process of 'Loading System Fonts'. Once it's finished you can select and edit the text. Below, I have changed the word barclay to the word black. If a simple edit like this is all that's required, you can then save and close the file. If you need to find out what font the text has been styled with, or if you need to change the typeface, select the text and then right click on it.

This will open the Touchup Properties Dialogue Box which you can use to edit some aspects of the text:. Something to remember here is that if you change the typeface to one that's not embedded within the PDF file, you'll start to get warning messages adobe acrobat xi pro crop tool free missing and substitute fonts. You can change the font to one from your system, or it'll use a substitute font.

Experiment with a few different variations and you'll soon get the hang of it. A Document Properties Dialogue Box will open. Click on the Fonts tab to see which typefaces have been embedded:.

This is pretty much the extent of Acrobat's capabilities when it comes to making text changes. If you need to replace a whole paragraph of text, you'll start to run into trouble. Acrobat doesn't wrap text automatically, so you'll need to add line breaks manually. Text alignment and tabbing are non-existent. Again, if you want to make radical changes to the content and layout of a PDF file, the best way to do it will be by using a combination of Acrobat, Illustrator, Photoshop and InDesign, depending on your requirements.

If you position the cursor adobe acrobat xi pro crop tool free a corner of one of the bounding boxes or over the corner of a collection of objectsthe cursor will change to a 'scale' icon and you'll be able to drag-scale the elements to different sizes. It's possible to edit these individual elements outside Acrobat, but you'll need the companion software Photoshop and Illustrator in order to achieve this.

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