Path: csiph.com!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: Brian Gregory Newsgroups: alt.comp.os.windows-11 Subject: Re: Software for creating and editing PDFs Date: Fri, 28 Feb 2025 19:17:12 +0000 Organization: https://www.Brian-Gregory.me.uk/ Lines: 23 Message-ID: References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: individual.net OcF3scqjTLEPdkIiDkNmNwKit5w0bkWuXNFbwWymbCOSufnEc+ Cancel-Lock: sha1:wTJIko1n0pXVosWtegHJj4J9OKY= sha256:aSal2dqgEL1aNMjU/BNMHLpnINndHi0uOU66OT8k1QU= User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird Content-Language: en-GB In-Reply-To: Xref: csiph.com alt.comp.os.windows-11:17517 On 28/02/2025 14:59, Tim Slattery wrote: > My wife makes books for Amazon's online sales. These aren't printed > books, they're PDFs made to Amazon's specifications. I think she > currently uses Word97 and "Save to PDF", but I'm not really sure. But > the process doesn't work well and drives her nuts. > > Does anybody have a clue what she _should_ be using? Editing PDF files is something that's possible but not recommended. It's usually best to keep the original in a file of a type that is designed to be edited and do all changes on that. Then export the new version to PDF when a new updated PDF is needed. Though, having said that, it's likely that the only major problems you will have if you use software that is good at importing PDFs, and you only keep the PDF file, will be with diagrams made from separate parts positioned relative to each other which are likely to get merged into a single final image in the PDF so that they can no longer be moved relative to each other. -- Brian Gregory (in England).