Gene Young wrote: > On 6/12/2010 10:51 PM, Virginia Dunham wrote: >> I prefer (for a number of reasons) to create PDF reports. I CAN edit >> them as I do have the PDF Foxit Editor. >> >> So saying that PDFs are not editable is not correct. >> >> Virginia >> >> > > You can make minor text changes but to say that you can edit a pdf in > the commonly accepted manner, ie; move or delete blocks of text and > change formatting, you can not. You will lose the original layout and > formatting. Unless all you are doing is very minor text changes you > can not "EDIT" a pdf. For the minor text edit, PDF Exchange viewer > is a more full featured, robust program and it is also free. > > I still recommend RTF reports that can be edited (I use Open Office) > then convert to PDF. (Again, Open Office does an excellent job of > conversion.) By going this way you can take a report from Legacy (a > great genealogy program, not a report writing program) and you are not > hampered by the limitations present in editing a PDF document.
Gene, I too use the RTF -> Open Office route when I wish to edit reports. Usually, because I am printing them on my own printer, ie. they are reports rather than books, I will print directly from OO.o. Ron Ferguson _____________________________________________________ *New* Tutorial: Add Location Pins to Google Earth http://www.fergys.co.uk Includes the family tree for Alan J Grimshaw And the Fergusons of N.W. England ____________________________________________________ Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages after Nov. 21 2009: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ Archived messages from old mail server - before Nov. 21 2009: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ Online technical support: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp
