PDF files

[wolf63]

I have a PDF file that I have downloaded onto my PC. The file has five pages of text. Five pages I want to delete. Two pages are an application form that I want to complete and the other form I want to save.

The whole thing seems to be protected - am I able to undo this? Please help .........

[Old_Geezer]

The idea, as I understand it, of the pdf is to encapsulate the original document , however it was written, and have it in a form that can be displayed by a common pdf reader. It's not normal to want to edit the displayed document.

You want to edit then the best bet may be to either get hold of the original document, or maybe get some reader software that will identify the text and put it into a separate file for you.

[AlBags]

Yes ... you can't.
You can't use Reader for that.
Try Foxit ... but I doubt that will work either.

You have to have Adobe Acrobat Full for this sort of thing.
Those forms are really only any good for printing out most of the time .. however daft it may seem!

[giveup]

I got something off yesterday by using cut and paste, but I can't remember exactly what I did,I was trying all sorts of things for ages.Don't suppose this helps but sometimes technophobes like me get lucky.

[puternut]

Can you not just print the applicaation form off - just the 2 pages you want - and save the file as it is?

[wolf63]

Thanks guys.

I have tried copy and paste but it didn't work. I have tried quite a few things that didn't work.

As puternut suggests I will be as well printing the form off and either using one of those ink pen things we used to use or scan it and see what can be done.

Computers are so frustrating !!!!!!

[Jan1957]

I use this site Susan to convert a pdf file to Word. If you fill in your email address they email it back to you in Word and then you can do what you want with it. Very quick and easy.

[snags]

wolf... I have Adobe Acrobat and will be able to edit the file as you wish (if you feel happy emailing the link or the .pdf file to me)...

[Jan1957]

Helps if I put the link

http://www.pdftoword.com/

[wolf63]

snags and jan

I am currently using the link that jan gave me. I am fed up tinkering with my computer and am off to bed before it is time to get up.

If it doesn't work I will be back snags. It isn't anything important or interesting. It is a bulletin from Oxfam HQ which advertises a little job that I fancy - unpaid of course!

G'night from a freezing and miserable Perth.

[ChuckFickens]

People supply application forms as PDFs because they expect them to be printed and completed by hand, not typed.

[wolf63]

chuck - you are probably right, but I assumed that I could fill the form in on-line and when it wouldn't work I was getting frustrated.

Hopefully the situation is resolved now.