Editing pdf documents

Hi - I thought I could download Adobe, well I DID, but when it finished downloading it told me then that it wasn't compatible with Mac
How or what do I do to edit a pdf document - or maybe I can't at all can I? Ta

Sounds like you downloaded a version of Adobe for mac that wasn't the version for Lion.
However, neither Preview (the pdf reader included in Lion) nor the free version of Adobe Reader will allow you to edit the actual content of a pdf. You can overlay new text boxes to obscure the original date/venue with Preview but it will look pretty tacky!
You need to get Adobe Acrobat for that
http://www.adobe.com/products/acrobatpro/edit-pdf-files.html
It's a paid for app, but you should be able to download and install a 30-day trial which might allow you to do this job before having to pay for it (note: I'm not sure if the trial is full-featured or not, you'll have to check that out on Adobe's page. Make sure you get the version that's compatible with Lion this time!).

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HI Baffled Nurse,
Welcome to Adobe Community .
We are sorry for the trouble that you are facing . Can you please confirm what product have you purchased to edit PDF or was it an online service that you have used ? Also, what is the error message you are getting while you are trying to open/edit the files?
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marvinandstorm wrote:
Hi allan,I have dowloaded Adobe reader.Is it the same as Adobe acrobat?
Also I don t know how to start editing my pdf document once I have downloaded the program.
No. Adobe Reader is the free product that does exactly that reads PDF files. Adobe Acrobat on the other hand is a product which does everything Reader does plus it can create, edit and merge PDF files. The downside to Acrobat is that it cost.
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It would be nice if Indesign could open PDF files.
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Paal, I'm sorry for that little out-lash. There is nothing wrong with inquiring the feasability of a new feature. The problem is that PDF has been an "output intended format" from the very beginning.
An Illustrator file (from a fairly modern version) also is a PDF file, for all intents and purposes. You can rename an .AI file to .PDF and use it anywhere, with any software that supports PDF (so that's excepting Apple's Preview, probably ;-) ). Moreover, you can still open and edit this PDF with Illustrator and get all of your objects, symbols, layers, paragraph styles, and guides back!
That's because in fact this file *contains* all this extra information in a data block marked "For Private Use Only". Other software, if adhering to Adobe's PDF specs, will simply ignore this (and thus my little jab at Apple's Preview). Does that mean you can edit such a PDF with *any* software? No -- the Illustrator data is "proprietary", and the details are not published to use by other software developers. Similarly, one could envisage InDesign to do the same. Yes, it would lead to *huge* files -- but hey, you would be able to open THAT file into InDesign and edit it. But not with any other software!
The meta-problem is that an extremely large amount of this private data would be *extremely* dependant on the software that was used to create it with. What would an Illustrator file do with InDesign's GREP styles? What would InDesign do with Illlustrator's brush styles, or symbols? Illustrator allows slanted guides, InDesign does not.
And let's not focus purely on a combo of ID and Illy; Photoshop *also* outputs PDFs, and its graphic data has yet another set of requirements.
So all of Adobe's software would need to be able to parse *every others' data* to some degree. Well, it's still not "unconceivable" as all of this would need to be done in one office (note that in that single office there are still vast differences in something as straightforward as a User Interface across the CS suite). But there are lots of other software developers out there, and they *all* want to write out PDFs, all with their own internal data! (Think of the different requirements between an architectural app and one for graph plotting.)
A *possible* solution would be to add "more" metadata to a PDF without crossing into the realm of "every single bit". Article tagging is an example of this -- it tells software that wants to know in which order *plain text* is to appear, and as such it serves as meta-data for plain text content. But the mind reels thinking of what more to add -- a list of used GREP styles per paragraph would probably be useless to anyone else.
But such an idea will not solve the problem, as 1. this meta-data is optional (lazy programmers would be allowed to say "nothing to see here, move along"), and 2. this data would only get added to *newly created* files, and it would not retroactively make older PDFs editable ...
(Now that's just the *short* version :-) h

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