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Editing PDFs

Last updated 4/7/2015

In Acrobat DC, if the content that you edit or delete is associated with one layer, the content of the layer reflects the

change. If the content that you edit or delete is associated with more than one layer, the content in all the layers reflects

the change. For example, if you want to change a title and byline that appear on the same line on the first page of a

document, and the title and byline are on two different visible layers, editing the content on one layer changes the

content on both layers.

You can add content, such as review comments, stamps, or form fields, to layered documents just as you would to any

other PDF document. However, the content is not added to a specific layer, even if that layer is selected when the

content is added. Rather, the content is added to the entire document.

In Acrobat DC, you can use the Merge Files Into A Single PDF command to combine PDF documents that contain

layers. The layers for each document are grouped under a separate heading in the Layers panel of the navigation pane.

You expand and collapse the group by clicking the icon in the title bar for the group.

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Edit images or objects in a PDF

PDFs converted to web pages

Links and bookmarks in web pages

You can work with a PDF document created from web pages the same way you work with any other PDF. Depending

on how you configured Acrobat, clicking a link on a converted web page adds the page for that link to the end of the

PDF, if it isn’t already included.

Note: Remember that one web page can become multiple PDF pages. A web page is a single topic (or URL) from a website

and is often one continuous HTML page. When you convert a web page to PDF, it may be divided into multiple standard-

size PDF pages.

When you first create a PDF from web pages, tagged bookmarks are generated if Create Bookmarks is selected in the

Web PageConversion Settings dialog box. A standard (untagged) bookmark representing the web server appears at the

top of the Bookmarks tab. Under that bookmark is a tagged bookmark for each web page downloaded; the tagged

bookmark’s name comes from the page’s HTML title or the URL, if no title is present. Tagged web bookmarks are

initially all at the same level, but you can rearrange them and nest them in family groups to help keep track of the

hierarchy of material on the web pages.

If Create PDF Tags is selected when you create a PDF from web pages, structure information that corresponds to the

HTML structure of the original pages is stored in the PDF. You can use this information to add tagged bookmarks to

the file for paragraphs and other items that have HTML elements.