Changing font in a PDF file with Acrobat

Not just one line at a time

[Sinner_G]

Here is the problem:

I have this (quite large) text file. I only have it as a PDF. Now I want to have that text in another font (say I want it in Times New Roman instead of Arial).

Now I can go to TouchUp tool and change one line after the other, but there has to be some way of changing the font for the whole document?

[choster]

PDF's aren't intended to be edited that way, hence the tool is called TouchUp. Why not just save as RTF and work with the RTF file?

[bakedjake]

Did you try OpenOffice?

Added: Nevermind, it can only output, not edit.

[Sinner_G]

Wow, that was fast, thanks guys.

>PDF's aren't intended to be edited that way

I know, but that's the format I got the file, nothing I can do about it.

>save as RTF

How do I do that? And wouldn't I loose all style elements (like tabs,...)?

>OpenOffice

Not familiar with that at all. I thought it had only the same tools as MS-Office.

<added>ok, nevermind then :)</added>

[bakedjake]

OpenOffice is very similar to MS-Office, but it does have a save as PDF option which is nifty.

Hey SG, here's a bit of a roundabout way (if you have a UNIX box of some sort and KOffice):

1. Grab the KWord PDF import filter: [sourceforge.net...]

2. Change the font, and save it as a Word (or OpenOffice) document.

3. Open in Word (or OpenOffice), and distill to PDF.

[Sinner_G]

No UNIX around :(. But the PDF import filter is a good idea, I'll google around to see if there is no Windows tool with such a filter.

[runre]

I often face the same challenge: EU's/clients can't get the PDF's source file to me. I deal with word-intensive forms that have complicated layouts. I have found the simplest way get the job done is to OCR the file and save the content as a new source file. There is usually very little tweaking that I have to do and I have a new source file that makes future updates qite easy.

[bill]

Acrobat 6 will let you do a bit more with the reverse conversions from PDF. I know you can make Microsoft Word files now as well as XML and a few others.

[runre]

Yes, Bill, you are right. Acrobat 6x will let you save to (among other formats) Word docs. The probmlem is that some elements will disappear. I believe that all bookmarks are lost while hyperlinks remain. The text is retained without the hassle of OCR mistakes, few as they are.