How to Edit a PDF

PDFs can be a serious pain to edit if you don’t have the right tools. Here’s what you need.

By Edward Mendelson

If you’ve ever tried to edit a Portable Document File, or PDF, you’ve almost certainly discovered that it’s a lot more trouble than editing a Microsoft Office document. That’s because the PDF format was never designed to be edited at all. When Adobe introduced the PDF spec back in 1992, the whole…