Converting documents to PDF is a powerful and easy way to share just about anything with anybody. What is not so easy is making changes to text or graphics directly in a PDF document.  Even the full (and expensive) version of Adobe Acrobat is clunky at this. Finally here's a very cool, easy to use (and affordable) tool that lets you change just about anything within a PDF.

PDFs are a great way to distribute information that is universally viewable no matter what software was used to create the original document. This feature is what makes using PDFs in our daily business so attractive.

However, there is nothing more frustrating than having a PDF that needs just "one little change" —something that is only possible by opening the original document in the program it was created in, making the changes and then reconverting it back to a PDF, or, using the full version of Acrobat and hope that it will allow you to make the change (which it sometimes doesn't).

Foxit PDFedit To The Rescue

Now, thanks to Foxit Software and their new PDFedit software, editing PDFs is a snap. With it you can edit any text or graphic elements within a PDF and then save your changed document as a PDF. You can even add text and graphics as well.

PDFs can be tricky beasts because the fonts used within the document may or may not be "embedded."  If the document uses embedded fonts, then editing text may be a problem because typically only those characters used within the document are saved and not the entire alphabet. If this is the case, you can simply use a similar font from your own computer to make the changes.

You can try PDFedit for free for thirty days (with some restrictions on how you save your edited documents). As of this writing this software costs US $99.00 —well worth the price when you just have to make those changes on the fly!