Proofreaders - editing PDF document - help!

[allegin]

I started out as a writer but I'm taking more proofreading jobs now. Previously I've just used track changes in Word, but this client's document is a PDF.

How can I edit a PDF document so the client can see what changes I've made?

Any advice greatly appreciated

You need full Acrobat (not just the free reader) to do it in the pdf. Then use the comments feature.

But if you haven't got that, cut and paste the text into Word,and use track changes for that. Make sure the text comes out ok when you drop it into Word.

You can get a free one here:

www.docu-track.com/downloads/

At the top it says "Get PDF Xchange Viewer for free" - click it. I use it myself.

You can use a tool called 'Comment & Markup' which lets you underline/highlight/use stickies etc on the pdfs to make the proofing changes easy to read, without having to have all the fonts etc to change the actual document text.

Many thanks, misscph1973.

My suggestion would have been to copy and paste from a .pdf, into Word, do Track changes and then use cute pdf to turn it back into .pdf!

I use Solid Converter - it's a software package that converts PDF to word pretty well

Does anyone have any suggestions for converting a pdf to word using a Mac? Preferably something that doesn't cost $100 or so. I'd say $30 would be my limit - I need it very seldom and at the moment I use the cut'n'paste technique, but that often knackers the formatting.