Exploring and editing pdf metadata

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Looking for either an Adobe or third party solution such that I can explore and edit my pdf metadata. I have hundreds of technical and journal documents 9somewhat organized). But search for a particular article can be a daunting experience. I've seen a number of third party application which will allow me to visually explore my pdfs files but was wondering if there is an Adobe solution or a recommended third party solution some of you might use.
Jeff

Adobe Bridge can edit/search/display the XMP metadata in lots of different file types, but it's only available as part of a collection (e.g. a Creative Cloud subscription).

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i have pdf's that i created and would like to put them out in the world with some identifying information.
if this is not possible in acrobat or if there is a good tutorial or instructions somewhere would someone be kind enough to help me find out?
THANKS

hi. sorry i wasn't clear.
if i go to File > Document Properties > Description i see about five tabs and i would like to read up on these to make sure i understand them. on the bottom left of each is a HELP icon that seems to take me to an online help document and on the top right it seems to let me download a pdf help document.
i can't figure out how to print the information in the online help document (the one that first comes up) and when i go to the downloadable pdf i can't figure out how to search for the topic that the HELP icon shows me...
i really want to just print the information that first comes up but even my Snagit screencapture sofware can't capture it so i would have to do a series of scrolled screenshots which is a real pain.
TIA

When will we be able to open and edit PDF documents in Indesign?

Hi
It would be nice if Indesign could open PDF files.
When will this happen (without a plugin)?
Today I need to open the files in Illustrator. The customer prefers to use Indesign, so even though Indesign can export pdf documents I will have to tell the customer and the program can not open pdf files. This I find really weird.
Hopefully opening and editing pdf files in Indesign will happen real soon.
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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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Can I hide the Adobe Reader panel with "Export, Create and Edit PDF and Send and Store Files"? I don't use it and it takes up space

If you just mean, can I close it, sure. In Reader XI click the Tools button to close or reopen it.

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How do i turn a pages document into a fillable and editable pdf?

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You advertised to me that you could provide a product that enabled one to mark up and edit PDF files. I spent hours trying to download it, install it and run it, hours and hours and hours of bitter frustration. Time and time again I had to agree to this, register that, click on this, scroll down to find that, install something, else, update something else, wait for this to run, wait again for the next thing to run, and then find something else in a something file, close this, open that, stop this, tell us what f===ing browser your'e using (Chrome) start that, verify this, confirm that, choose a f==== password, choose another f===== password because that one is not right, choose yet another f=====g password because it's the wrong shade of pink, choose a f======= userrname, and in the end, nothing worked, Nothing changed, I still cannot edit or mark up any Adobe Acrobat files. Every time you open a file like this it pesters you to download updates and this is just a f====== nightrmare, I have wasted hours when I could have been working and your product did not work or make any difference. I still don't know if you have to pay but if you do I resent you hiding that until the end. I accepted a supposedly free 30-day trial but that is not enough time to get the f====== product to download install and work.
Why did you advertise this?
You started this situation by advertising a product and sending a pop-up. All it caused was huge waste of my time and effort.
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Well we have no idea what you tried to do to install the trial version. There may have been a fundamental error in your process, but unless you let us know what was happening, we can't help. As for Adobe, we don't try to defend them, but try to provide help where we can.
Sorry you ran into frustration. The package does a lot of things, but for you the trial would have been ideal to see what worked like you expected and what did not. A lot of people expect all sorts of things out of Acrobat that are not possible, thinking it is like a word processor. It is not like that, but a PDF is more like an electronic version of a piece of paper. Modifications are typically a pain, just as it is with paper.
Over the years a lot of features have been added. The markup is OK, but some of the functions continue to be clunky. The forms is a major contribution to a standard PDF. The OCR feature is useful for scanned files. So there are many features. Reader is basically that, a Reader. It generally allows the completion of forms and possibly submission electronically (depends on the creation process).
If you want to try again (assuming the trial period has not run out), then let us help. When you do the install, you need to be sure you log in as the administrator (on Windows) and disable anti-virus. There may also be an issue of the compatibility of the trial version and your OS (you never mentioned). So there are possible fixes that might be able to help you play with the trial.

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There is one website where I have an issue downloading some PDF files,I do not have problems on any other website,admin at problem website gets no other complaints.
I use Adobe Reader 11.0.08.
I discovered that if I DISABLE the ADD ON in Internet Explorer for Adobe Reader I can easily download all content from this problem website ,If I ENABLE ( my norml operation ) the ADD ON for Adobe Reader ,the PDF download problem appears again.
What exactly is the ADD ON doing ? I'm under the inmpression that it ties software to a website ,so when I ask for a PDF file on a website, the website looks for Adobe Reader and the PDF file opens ,using Adobe Reader . . . if I disable the ADD ON . . . doesn't the website NOT know how to give me the PDF file . . . yet with the ADD ON Disabled this problem website downloads the PDF file using Adobe ( it said it is using Adobe ) with no problem ?
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This issue happens on two differnt PC's ??

P.Willener,
Thanks for response.
The website is not public ,that I have PDF download issues using Adobe Reader 11.0.08. I have no PDF download issues on any other website with PDF files.
On this problem site I can download some files, others I can't.
The website admin gets no other complaints from other website users.
I discovered that on a friends new PC ,this website works good and I can download all files, no problems.
I have an older PC ( 2008 vintage ) ,it runs Windows 7 and IE 11 , with this PC I have PDF download issues on this website only , when the problem occurs the files stop and never complete downloading, all recent website PDF files download OK, older files do not ,on my PC . . . but if I DISABLE the Adobe Reader ADD ON ,ALL files download with no problem, if I ENABLE the Adobe ADD ON ,I have problems.
My question is . . . why ? When the ADD ON for Adobe Reader is ENABLED what is different then when the ADD ON is DISABLED ,for Adobe Reader ?
To me ,it seems that in the ENABLED mode ,the PDF file is opening within the IE browser ,using Adobe Reader , when the ADD ON is DISABLED the PDF file is opening in the External Reader mode , using Adobe Reader am I correct on this thinking ????
So again why would I have issues on this one website only ? Yes there is a work around but my normal way of operating is what the Adobe Reader ADD ON ENABLED.
Any ideas what is going on ???? If you suspect the website any thoughts on what their problem could be ???? Again they get no other complaints ,I guess they all have new PC's.
Al

What software do I need to create and edit PDFs?

Hello,
I am new to this Software.
I have just started a Marketing Company and i want to create and design PDF's to add to my website and also attach links to them, when viewing. I also want to track the analytics of people who read them etc.
What is the best Software to use please? Would it be Adobe Acrobat XI?
Regards,

Hi oliverp56269772,
That is definitely what you need! See this page for a comparison between Acrobat Standard and Pro, to help you determine which one is right for you: Adobe Acrobat XI
You're welcome to try Acrobat for free for 30 days. See http://www.adobe.com/products/acrobat.html to download the free trial.
Best,
Sara

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I can create PDF's with editable form fields (extended features?) and serve those to our users and I can pre-fill form fields with data from the database using FDF, but then the PDF throws an error and the end user can't fill out the remaining fields (in Reader, it still works in Pro).
I've tried 2 open source approaches already, but the end result is either a fillable form or a pre-filled form. I can't seem to do both at the same time.
I've looked around adobe.com and frankly there's just so much stuff there that isn't even applicable it's staggering. I am completely lost and resorting to asking a question on a forum. I've searched these forms (and others), but anything related to this problem have no answers. I'm sure there's a way to do it.
If I try to set the PDF to fetch the FDF using a http post/submit (can I get it to do that when it loads?) I would still have to get an id number into the query string or object on a per document basis (some how?) and that means editing the PDF server side which breaks the structure which then throws the error on the client side and I'm right back at the beginning again.
At this point, it looks like it's going to take less time to simply create the form in HTML with a unique CSS file for the print version using a PNG for visual elements instead of a PDF. Not a great way to go for printing, but it would only take a day to set up. The time to create new forms is the issue. I don't want to spend 8 hours creating new HTML forms when I can do a PDF in 2 hours. Is it more efficient to go with an Adobe solution or roll my own HTML version?
All I want to do is help the users save some time by pre-filing part of the form so they can print it.
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Open and edit PDF document simultaneously in two windows

I am currently studying on a very long PDF, about 1600 pages. I have two copies of the same PDF open in full screen, and I use the first (A) to read and highlight, and the second (B) to search for images and references. So if I am on page 200 of A, and it refers to an image on page 270, instead of scrolling 70 pages and losing track of where I was I scroll on B.
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Open and edit PDF files like sharepoint

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On behalf of Dunnzatron-
Question:
Is there a way to "Share" a PDF so that if I am in a document making edits and a colleague is in the same document over our work network making edits, we can both do this at the same time with the document open simultaneously without losing our work, or having one of us having to close out (and thus losing our edits) so that the other can save? Having one of us "Save as" a new document name should not be an option, as this problem has occurred everyday.
Can someone from Adobe please help me out here? This would be a feature that would really help out on a project I am currently working on, and I would love to know if this is even possible so I stop looking for ways around this problem...thanks!

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Can i view and edit PDF and .DOC file on iphone?

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secondly, when is that going to be available to install third-party application to iphone such as Skype, IM+..
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