How to Type in a PDF File

Posted by Simpo Technologies, on Aug. 5th, 2010

Recently, many people around me often ask the same question, how to type in a PDF File? As we know, PDF is a world-widely popular file format for electronic documents management and sharing. People prefer to PDF because this format is compatible with any operating system in any computer, you don’t need to worry whether your Mac laptop could read a PDF; and the other reason is that PDF is well protected with high security from being copied, printed or edited.

 

But this protected PDF may bother a lot of people, especially when you want to edit a PDF file of some application for jobs or quote certain contents from a PDF for your thesis. Here I will show you several ways how to reuse a PDF document.

 

1. Use a PDF editor to edit a PDF file.

There are many software of this kind on the Internet. The most popular one is PDF Hammer which is developed by Nitro PDF. It is a free online using tool; with this tool, you can not only quickly rearrange, reorder, and delete the pages from existing PDF files, but also edit text inside PDFs or add data to a PDF. And this is the most direct and fast way to edit a PDF file.

 

2. Remove PDF restrictions to reuse a PDF document.

You can’t make a change on a PDF file because the author has set an owner password to protect it from copying, editing and printing. In this case, you need to use password remover software to remove PDF password. After removing the owner password, copying and printing are allowed, and it becomes easy to reuse a PDF document. But editing isn’t allowed at this time, so, you may need a PDF editor if you really desire to edit PDFs.

Tips: The point is that, any one should remove PDF password to reuse a PDF document with legal rights.

 

3. Utilize tools like PDF converter to update a PDF file.

The most circuitous method. As PDF is not editable, so, you need to use a PDF converter to convert PDF to editable file formats, like MS Word. Now, it's easy to update a PDF file in the converted Word document after converting PDF to Word. After typing contents and add text in Word, you could use an office to PDF converter to change the Word back to PDF format. It seems complicated; in fact, you just need two converters, and conversion will be done in seconds with several clicks.

 

Above is the introduction of three ways to edit or copy data from a PDF file. You can choose one as you like.

By the way, if you are Mac fans and want to type into PDF on Mac, you can give Simpo PDF to Word converter for Mac a shot.