Edit text and images in PDF files
Learn how to edit text and images in PDF documents with Adobe Acrobat.
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Editing text and images in Adobe Acrobat allows you to make simple modifications to streamline your workflow and apply updates directly to content in a PDF.
Hi everyone!
My name is Angelo Montilla from www.montilladesign.com.
I'm an Adobe Certified Designer, Trainer and YouTube Content Creator.
In this tutorial, you'll learn how to use the Edit a PDF tool in Acrobat to correct typos, resize and stylize text, and adjust image content.
So let's jump in and get started.
With a document open, click on All tools and then select Edit a PDF.
When you're working in Edit mode, you will notice the content in the document has dashed borders around it.
For example, I can click on the tagline on this page and fix the typo.
You can see that the word Marketing is misspelled.
I'll just add the E there.
If I select the text, you have other settings to change the Weight of the font or change the Font altogether.
So let's say I want this Articulat CF from Light, I want to change it to Normal.
I can also change the Font size if I like the Font color and set the Alignment, maybe from Left align to Center align.
I can also change things like the Line and Character spacing.
In this case, I'll change the Character spacing to a value of, let's say 2.
If I exit the Edit mode, you can see I've fixed the typo and made some other adjustments to the tagline in that text frame.
That's how you edit text.
But this tool also allows you to edit images as well.
Let's look at that next.
I'm going to make my way to the next page in this document by tapping the right arrow key on the keyboard.
Let's go back into Edit mode by clicking All tools and then choose Edit a PDF.
A shortcut to this is also clicking the Edit tab in the menu up top.
While working in Edit mode, click on an image in the document.
I'm going to click on this first image here.
You will see that the dashed border around the image becomes a solid border, with handles in all four corners and all four sides.
If you want to resize an image, just click on any of the handles and move your image in or drag it out.
You can also crop an image by clicking it and then selecting the Crop image icon in the Contextual menu.
You can also find the Crop image tool in the main Edit panel in the Adjust Objects section.
Now if I click that once, you'll see that I have four different handles in the top, bottom, left, and right.
This allows me to crop the image.
So I'm just going to take the top inwards a little bit, so I've cropped it.
And to turn the Crop image tool off you can simply just click it again and it will turn it off.
And again you can access the Crop image tool in two different areas in the Adjust Object section of the Edit panel, or in the Contextual menu that appears when you click on an image.
I can also replace images in Acrobat.
Let's say I'm not happy with the image I'm currently working on, and I want to add a different photo.
With the image still selected, you can click on the Replace image icon under Adjust Objects.
The other way of accessing Replace image is by clicking the image itself, and then under Replace Image we can choose a different image.
I have one here called Market Research.jpeg.
I'm going to click that and click Open.
And you can see my original image has been swapped out with a new version.
Now it's looking great, but you can see that that image is in color and the one below is in black and white.
This can also be adjusted in Acrobat with the Edit image feature.
You can access that under Adjust Objects or in the Contextual menu by clicking the image once.
Make your way down to Edit image and that will open in a separate window, powered by Adobe Express.
If I make my way down to the bottom, you'll notice that I have an Adjustments option.
Here I can adjust Contrast, Brightness, Highlights, and Shadows.
However, I can also adjust the Color.
So I'm just going to turn the Saturation all the way down to the left at -100.
And you can see now my image is in black and white.
I'm going to simply click Apply.
That takes a few moments to process, and the adjustments made will be reflected in the PDF document.
You can see that the image I placed that was in color is now in black and white.
You now know how to edit text and images using the Edit a PDF tool in Acrobat.
Give these techniques a try with your own projects the next time you need to make last minute changes or corrections to a PDF.
Again, my name is Angelo Montilla, and I'll see you in the next video.
Note: Stock assets provided are for practice purposes only. See terms.
What you'll learn
Modify text and edit images
You can streamline your workflow with Adobe Acrobat by making simple edits to both text and images in PDF files. With the Edit a PDF tool, you can correct typos, resize and stylize text, and also resize, crop and apply other edits to image content in a PDF.
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