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Editing PDF Files
PDF Converter Professional 3 is a powerful tool for
viewing, editing and archiving PDF files.
Starting the Program
Use the Windows Start menu and choose (All) Pro-
grams > ScanSoft PDF Professional 3.0 > PDF Con-
verter Professional 3.0. On its first use, you can
choose to set the program as your default PDF
viewer. If you do this, you can have all PDF files
opened in it by default, either from your file system,
or from links to PDF files in web pages.
Presenting the Program
The workspace consists of the following parts:
•
Document View
•
Navigation Panel
•
Organizer
The Document View displays your PDF files.
Click
to show or hide the Navigation Panel on
the left side and use it to display page thumbnails,
bookmarks, comments, signatures or document
properties.
The Organizer panel gives access to Document and
Digital Signature Preferences, Comment, Form, and
Touchup Text Properties, the Search Tool, Actions,
Stamps, Watermarks and Clip Art.
Opening PDF files
There are several ways to open your PDF files with
PDF Converter Professional:
•
Drag-and-drop PDF files onto the open Work-
space in PDF Converter Professional 3.0.
•
Click Open
in the Main toolbar or choose
Open in the File menu.
•
Choose from Recent Files in the File menu.
Once you have a PDF open, you can use the book-
marks or page thumbnails in the Navigation Panel to
browse it. Alternatively, you can use the extensive
set of document navigation tools available on the
Main toolbar, including flipping pages, panning,
dynamic zooming and more.
Editing PDF files
PDF Converter Professional 3 provides a number of
tools to edit your PDF files.
Basic Editing
Use the Touchup Text and Image tools
edit the text content and images of your PDF. The
program also has a Clip Art collection that you can
use, organize or extend with your own images.
Revision and annotation
The program offers you a variety of revision tools:
Use these tools to bookmark a place in the docu-
ment, insert a link, a note or a text box; highlight
text; stamp or draw your own revision marking on a
page.
When done you can sort annotations by author, type,
date and more. Choosing to show or hide a given set
of them will help you navigate through the docu-
ment's revision history.
Editing Forms
Click the Auto FormTyper button or choose Auto
FormTyper from the Tools menu to have form ele-
ments detected and activated automatically in the
current PDF.
Choose Form Fields in the Tools menu or the
corresponding button to add form controls
and elements manually. You can add buttons,
check boxes, radio buttons, combo boxes,
list boxes, text fields and signatures. Once a
control is added, its properties are displayed
in the Organizer - ready for editing.
If you decide to edit a form element later,
select the tool you used to create it, then
click the given element and use the Orga-
nizer the same way as above.
Document Security
To modify the security settings for your document,
click Document > Properties > Document Security.
The Navigation Panel will display your current set-
tings. You can choose to protect your document by
passwords or PDF self-sign security at different
levels.
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