Adobe Acrobat Question

[skymama 37]

Here's what I would like to do:

I want to scan documents such as building permit applications into my computer so I can type out information instead of hand printing on them. My scanner only scans in PDF format and then sends me an e-mail with the attachment. I open it in Acrobat 6.0 and then can't figure out what format I have to save it in, in order to type on it. I know it's possible somehow, right?

I swear I searched the Help index before asking you all another computer question!

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[AggieDave 6]

You need to buy Acrobate writer or creater or whatever its called. You only have a reader. You can't edit with that proggy.

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[skymama 37]

Shoot, I knew there'd be a catch!

She is Da Man, and you better not mess with Da Man,
because she will lay some keepdown on you faster than, well, really fast. ~Billvon

[ChrisL 2]

Try other scanner software.
Most I've seen will give you multiple options for file types.

Would your scanner software be made by Adobe by any chance?

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[AggieDave 6]

http://www.adobe.com/products/acrobatstd/main.html

Its pricey, but I bet someone you know might have it and you might be able to use it...you never know.

Here's Froogle's listing:

http://froogle.google.com/froogle?q=adobe+acrobat+standard&btnG=Search+Froogle

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[skymama 37]

This is a printer/ scanner/copier. It will only scan in pdf format to e-mail. Usually it's not a problem, I just open it and save it in Acrobat as another format then.

She is Da Man, and you better not mess with Da Man,
because she will lay some keepdown on you faster than, well, really fast. ~Billvon

[wildblue 7]

Your scanner should be able to scan as something other than PDF. If not, a slightly cheaper way of doing it (no promises on the quality) would be to convert the PDF to a Word document - software to do that is only about $50

it's like incest - you're substituting convenience for quality

[skymama 37]

Thanks for the links.
Just to be clear, I still need the writer, not just the 7.0 upgrade, right?

She is Da Man, and you better not mess with Da Man,
because she will lay some keepdown on you faster than, well, really fast. ~Billvon

[AggieDave 6]

Right.

You need Acrobat Standard. The upgrade is to pull the 6.0 version to 7.0, not make a reader a writer.

--"When I die, may I be surrounded by scattered chrome and burning gasoline."

[skymama 37]

Here's the machine. I forgot I can do a TIFF too (a jpeg won't do me any good with this). Would a TIFF make a difference?

She is Da Man, and you better not mess with Da Man,
because she will lay some keepdown on you faster than, well, really fast. ~Billvon

[jumpwally 0]

You can also buy a scanner made by paperport/visoneer and then do what you want. I do basically what you are aking about at work. Its about 180.00 complete wally

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[nathaniel 0]

Eeek. I just had this same problem trying to fill out the Birdman order form.

There's no easy way to do it. I actually have Acrobat Writer at work and it's impossible to use.

Instead I ended up using a program called pdf2ps to convert the documents from PDF to postscript format, and then I used the GIMP to edit the postscript documents, and finally I converted back to PDF using Adobe Distiller--I could also have used a program called ps2pdf but Distiller works a little better.

You can get the GIMP for windows (its free), but I'm not sure about ps2pdf or pdf2ps. Anyone know if they're supported under Cygwin?

Overall the process was enormously painful.

nathaniel

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[ChrisL 2]

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Thanks for the links.
Just to be clear, I still need the writer, not just the 7.0 upgrade, right?

Well...you dont actually have to BUY it...

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[ChrisL 2]

Tiff is an image file. Cant edit that.

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[nathaniel 0]

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Tiff is an image file. Cant edit that.

Sure you can...just not with a word processor. You'd have to use something like MS Paint, Photoshop &c.

nathaniel

My advice is to do what your parents did; get a job, sir. The bums will always lose. Do you hear me, Lebowski?

[Buried 0]

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Tiff is an image file. Cant edit that.

sure you can with a image editing program

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[JackC 0]

Ghostview is free and will convert pdf to ps and back again.

http://www.cs.wisc.edu/~ghost/

[ChrisL 2]

You guys are hilarious

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[pilotdave 0]

OMG why are people making this so complicated.

Save as a TIFF if you can, or any other image format like jpeg.

Put it in Word or any other similar program.

Type where you want. (you can use text boxes, from the draw toolbar, to place text wherever you want).

Save it.

Dave

[ChrisL 2]

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OMG why are people making this so complicated.

Save as a TIFF if you can, or any other image format like jpeg.

Put it in Word or any other similar program.

Type where you want. (you can use text boxes, from the draw toolbar, to place text wherever you want).

Save it.

Dave

You cant open image files for editing in Word. You can embed an image in a word doc but thats not the same thing.

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[flyingferret 0]

You dont have to edit it, you can paste it in. And type ON TOP of the image. Then print it.

Actually SkyMama, I hate to disagree with Dave, but you dont per say need Acrobat. You kind of do. The scanner is already saving in PDF it sounds like. BUT, even if you have acrobat you will have to set up an entry field everywhere you want to type. SO...unless you are typing them a lot, it really is not worth it. The only time it is when form will be used a lot and the company designs it in PDFs with fill in the blanks and distributes. For the record, when designed correctly like that, you can fill in the blanks with Reader, no purchase required.

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