I mean, you can pretty much completely edit a pdf with Acrobat. Delete elements, move them around, edit text. It may not be designed for it, but it’s very much possible.
I gotta admit I’ve done it a few times because I was to lazy to recreate old, lost templates, so instead I just copied the pdf and edited it with new text and data.
PDF is not a format designed for editing. It’s an export format designed to be a middle ground between a word processor and a printer.
You can bastardise extra layers onto it, but that’s about it.
But sometimes you need to edit it. Checking boxes. Signing things. Changing numbers so you can lie about things.
/c/yesyesyesno
What’s wrong with forgery?
It was designed for that but not really marketed to be used that way so it’s thought of as a lockable universally supported document format.
I mean, you can pretty much completely edit a pdf with Acrobat. Delete elements, move them around, edit text. It may not be designed for it, but it’s very much possible.
I gotta admit I’ve done it a few times because I was to lazy to recreate old, lost templates, so instead I just copied the pdf and edited it with new text and data.