Adobe Acrobat and PDF for Architecture, Engineering, and Construction

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 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
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...