Does Free Mac PDF Reader work with Acrobat PDF

Apple's Preview is a reader, not an editor, so you cannot change original PDF content with it. The Mac App Store has PDF Editors available as PDFPen/PDFPenPro, or PDF Expert. There are others in the Mac App Store. Adobe's Acrobat Pro DC is a subscription product that will run you about $180USD/year.

Can you copy/paste the list content from the PDF into Google Docs, edit it, then convert back from Google Docs to PDF?

aegolg Said:

“There should be a simple way to add/delete incoming lists/columns from another PDF.”

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Try OmniPage:

Having tables and such, I do not know if this would work for you, but try a trial edition of OmniPage. That might be just what you need.

It uses OCR (Optical Character Recognition): It allows you to scan a document, edit it on your own, then save the document.

***You would:

1. print out the document
2. scan the document with OmniPage
3. save it as a Document
4. edit it

So, Start By...

1. Creating a Time Machine Backup of your Mac
2. Installing OnmiPage
3. Performing the above 4 steps***
4. Then, Restoring your Mac from a Time Machine Backup once complete

A PDF editor is about the worst, and clumsiest way to create a document with lists and columns. Use apps intended for such work:

1. Microsoft Office (Word or Excel)
2. Apple's Pages or Numbers apps.
3. LibreOffice or OpenOffice

You can create a list in Applications -> Notes

Applications -> TextEdit can create bullet and numbered lists as well

If you need that list as PDF, you can print the list, and in the Print dialog select you want to send it to a PDF file.

There are other tools that will create a list, and you can always use Print to send it to a PDF file.