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I have Adobe CS4 Premium including Acrobat Pro 9.4.4 running on Mac OS X 10.6.7 on a Mac Pro 3,1 with 8GB RAM. I have received a .PDF file as an attachment to an email. The file contains a floor plan for the floor in a building where I have an office. The floor plan is more of a simple diagram than it is a real floor plan. There are no security issues or copyright issues involved.
I want to place lines of tiny footprints from a couple of outside entry doors to the door of my office showing persons how to navigate the halls to find my office. I will then make a new .PDF file that I will attach to emails to clients that confirm appointments to be held in my office. This will eliminate confusion that some people have in following written instructions to my office.
I need assistance on how to take the image from the incoming PDF and place it in another Adobe application such as Illustrator 14.0.0 or InDesign 6.0.6 (which I use most frequently) where I can insert the tiny footprints and then save or export the updated document as a PDF. Thank you in advance for any assistance you can give.

You REALLY don't want to scan a PDF just to edit it - the floor plan is almost certainly a vector, converting it to a TIFF scan will ruin the quality and massively increase the file size. It'd be like scanning a Word document just so you can correct a typo using Microsoft Paint!
As others have explained you can open the PDF in Illustrator and modify it - even if you don't have the original fonts, unless you're editing those text elements it doesn't matter - there will be a warning but that's all, as the PDF will have subset-embedded the characters (if it didn't, you wouldn't see anything without the font installed).
If you want a non-destructive solution for Photoshop, import the PDF, create a new layer, draw your footprints on that layer, then delete the PDF layer and export only your footprints as a new PDF. Then in Acrobat, use the tools on the layers navigation pane to import your footprints onto the original file as a new layer.

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