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INfix: easy, capable, but expensive WordPad-like PDF editor

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Curt:
I don't know what Adobe it$elf can do, but I have never come across a pdf editor that could handle a pdf file as if it was one big text file. Nor can Infix; it will find & replace within the selected text on the one actual page, only.

X3 and "the others" are, like Mike said, desktop publishers, only, not pdf text editors.

Darwin:
rjbull - don't forget, what PagePlus will do is import the contents of a pdf and manipulate it as a ppp file. Once  you're done, you need to export it as a pdf again. I'll take a look to see if it has search and replace, but I have to warn you that I've found pdf import/editing cludgy with PP...

I'll report back soon  :)

Darwin:
Yup - PagePlus X3 will search and replace (ctrl-H) within the text of a pdf file (provided the text is not part of an image). X3 does offer to open pdf's by default (ie pdfs are listed as PagePlus files in the Open dialogue) but once a pdf is selected to be opened, it is imported as mentioned above. To save as a pdf you have to select "Publish as PDF" from the File menu.

Curt:
- the entire document in a single search??? Or page per page, like Infix?

Darwin:
PS PagePlus will search and replace text on every page of the file, if you ask it to... However, once you're at this point, you are searching the text of the temporary ppp file, not the pdf. Nuance PDF Converter Professional 5, on the other hand, will search for text over the entire document but doesn't seem to offer a batch replace feature. The search feature returns a list of linked occurrences of the text and you need to replace each occurrence individually. I *may* be wrong about this, but if there is a more robust/convenient "search and replace" feature it's very well hidden  ;D

@Curt - PagePlus will search and replace the entire document in a single search. PDF Converter Pro will search the entire document in a single search.

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