To view or change your image editor preferences: If you install an image editor after installing Acrobat, you will need to tell Acrobat where to find it. The install process will select Adobe tools- Photoshop for image editing or Illustrator for vector editing- as the defaults, but you may also use tools like MS Paint. When you first install Acrobat, the installer program searches for compatible editing programs on your Mac or PC. However, Acrobat can also call a program to edit vector content, too.
Using an external image editor makes the most sense for image-based PDFs. I’ve never written about the second option previously, so this seems like a good opportunity to do so!
It is very useful to remove stray marks on scanned images, staple marks, fax headers, punched hole marks, etc. I recently received this email from one of my blog readers:ĭoes Adobe Acrobat have a feature similar to the eraser in the old MS Paint program to edit pdf documents? The feature does exist in ScanSoft Paperport (I have version 11).
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How to Erase and Clean-up a Scanned PDF in Acrobat XI