• Blackmist@feddit.uk
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    7 months ago

    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.

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      7 months ago

      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.

    • VeganCheesecake@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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      7 months ago

      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.