Adobe Acrobat and PDF for Architecture, Engineering, and Construction

Chapter 8: Modifying Content in the Package

Overview

Acrobat is not a document editing program, and although it can use content from a wide range of programs, it is not designed fundamentally as an editor. Fortunately, Acrobat does include a number of tools and features that are used to manipulate aspects of a document's contents, such as text, images, objects, and reading order.

It is common to work with a number of other file formats in addition to PDF files in the same project. Acrobat lets you work with other file formats throughout your workflow, including the ability to export a PDF file from Acrobat in a range of file formats, and attaching different types of file to an existing PDF document.

In this Chapter

In this chapter you see how to modify the content both within and without a PDF file as you learn about:

  • Selecting and reusing text in a PDF document

  • Extracting tables from a PDF file

  • Reusing images in a PDF file

  • Touching up objects, text, and reading order

  • Saving a PDF document in a range of alternate file format

  • Adding attachments to a PDF file as attachments to either the entire file or a selected location

  • Managing file attachments

  • Using attachments in earlier versions of Acrobat

Selecting Text in a PDF File

As indicated above, Acrobat is not a document editing program, but it does include some tools used for manipulating and editing content in a document. The Select tool, located on the Basic toolbar, is a multi-purpose tool that behaves differently...

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