>Why are PDFs so hard to edit? This is by design. IIRC the original objective was to require a costly proprietary program from Adobe called "Acrobat" to creat

>Why are PDFs so hard to edit? This is by design. IIRC the original objective was to require a costly proprietary program from Adobe called "Acrobat" to create the file to begin with, and it was intended not to be edited. Rather it was supposed to be readable and printable with good consistency between PCs and Macs. "Acrobat Reader" has always been free, to help popularize the format and make sure that anybody could open and read the file. But no editing for you the user. And the "publishers" who routinely generated the early PDFs using the full Acrobat suite wanted to distribute documents for people to trust that they had not been edited from the source. At least not as easily as a Word DOC file could be edited.