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    Nov 03, 2017 5 minutes

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    Transfer and edit PDFs

    I need to edit some old PDF files that I previously created using Serif’s PagePlus X9 program for Windows. Are there any Mac apps that will allow me to edit them as PDF files while preserving their existing fonts?

    There are several excellent Mac apps which will edit PDF documents, ranging from PDFpenPro (smilesoftware.com) to the full version of Adobe’s Acrobat DC. However, PDF isn’t a format which is intended to support much in the way of editing, and you may be better off saving your documents in another format such as EPS, if you can.

    Acrobat DC () and other apps enable you to make adjustments to pages in a PDF document, corrections, and to export the elements of each page. You could, for example, copy or save

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