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About editing Adobe PDF documents

A common misconception about Adobe PDF documents is that they should behave like
any other document with images and text, letting you freely copy, paste, and move items
on a page. Consider an Adobe PDF file as a snapshot of your original document--whether
it's an Adobe InDesign file or Microsoft Office file: Reserve the more substantial changes
for the authoring application, and use Adobe Acrobat to enhance the "snapshot" PDF file
for readability and distribution.

The major advantages of Adobe PDF are its ubiquitous format, small file size,
navigational tools, and accessibility. Furthermore, you can create tagged bookmarks and
add links and attachments. Examples of edits you can make to a PDF document include
the following:

Add or remove text with the TouchUp Text tool

To create a new line, use Ctrl-click (Windows) or Option-click (Mac OS). (See

Editing

text with the TouchUp Text tool

Copy a line or two of text

Use the Select tool and paste it in another application, or use Save As to save all text in
the file, select Rich Text Format from the pop-up menu, and then save the file.

Add and rearrange bookmarks

Change the appearance of bookmarks in the Bookmarks tab. (See

Using bookmarks

Insert a copied image on a blank page

Choose Edit > Paste, or use the Paste Clipboard Image tool. (See

Pasting an image from

the Clipboard

Create a custom link

Select an action that goes to another page in the document. (See

Creating links

Combine two PDF files

Open one document and choose Document > Pages > Insert, or combine the two by
choosing Create PDF > From Multiple Files.