Can I edit a PDF file using pages?
Do you mean by highlight select word and give them a colour to draw attention to those word? That you could do in Preview. I don't know if an iPad has Preview. This forum is for Pages on Macs. there is a forum for iPad and also a forum for iWork on iPads but your pdf question isn't a Pages question.
Rachelco wrote:
I have an ipad and I want to highlight a pdf file, am I able to do this?
There are numerous pdf readers for the iPad, including Adobe Reader. You can check for yourself what they can do by visiting the app store or downloading them. The forum for such questions is
> Can I edit a PDF file using pages?
The ISO distinguishes two document types -
1. Revisable documents are of the ISO 8879:1986-Standard Generalized Markup Language (SGML) type which includes ISO-IEC 15445:2000 HTML. This document type defines the information, but not the presentation image. The intention is that applications should be able to open and edit the revisable document.
2. Non-revisable documents are in the ISO-IEC 10180:1995-Standard Page Description Language (SPDL) type which includes ISO 15930:2001 PDF/X, ISO 19005:2005 and 2011 PDF/A, ISO 32000:2008 PDF 1.7 and ECMA Standard 388:2009 Open XPS.
PDF, then, is a final form rendered, and not a revisable format that is different from the format of the originating Pages application. Some of the information in the originating Pages application is no longer present in the PDF, but the presentation image is preserved. This, seeing what is on the screen is the same in the originating application and the PDF reader, tends to have people think PDF is revisable.
/hh
One more note added to the other notes: the app for a limited scope in editing PDFs is Preview. You may add some data or mark/adnotate them. Skim is another etc. etc.
You cannot do that with closed or protected PDF files, as they are intended to be so and trying to modify them infringes copyright laws. This applies from case to case.
> I don't know if an iPad has Preview.
Apple iOS 5 does not have the Preview application (nor the ColorSync application, nor the Character Palette which is not to say that iOS does not have ICC rendering and UCS rendering). Rather, PDF rendering is part of iOS Safari, iOS Mail, iOS iBooks ... This is also true of Mac OS X where Mail and Safari render PDF, of course. Analoguously, for Microsoft Windows 6 and higher Internet Explorer renders XPS.
/hh
No, word processors cannot open and edit pdf files. The main tool for that is Adobe Acrobat. Another possibility is PDFPen.
PDFs are in a sense an image format. It is not supposed to be changed. It is supposed to work on several computer plattforms.
You can copy the text and paste into Pages using Preview.
I have an ipad and I want to highlight a pdf file, am I able to do this?
Can I edit a PDF file using pages?
