Need help with PDF for my mum

Devrij · 23 Jan 2012 at 10:14

For some reason my mum has her CV in a locked PDF which she wants to edit. Document assembly etc are all not allowed and I can't convert it to word format (get a bunch of symbols), can anyone help me remove the restrictions so she can edit it? Preferably a freeware utility, but if not I can email it over to someone with a paid utility if they would convert it to .doc?

Cheers!

Pho · 23 Jan 2012 at 11:16

PDF to Word often doesn't alaways go well so she might have to recreate it anyway. If you want to email it to me (sig) I can use on it.

Try exporting to a postscript file - file > export > postscript > postscript I think. Open that file up and it should convert it back to a PDF.

Failing that email it me if you want as I have some tools lieing around (can't remember what they're called off-hand)

Devrij · 23 Jan 2012 at 13:00

The only option I have is export to word doc, but I didn't want to subscribe to it in case it didn't work (as I found with the free ones). I sent the file to the address in your sig if you don't mind having a look.

Thanks!

Pho · 23 Jan 2012 at 13:22

Ah that would be because you need Acrobat Pro to do it (I always forget which features they have in the reader and the pro version). I've mailed you back.

Devrij · 23 Jan 2012 at 14:12

Awesome, that's perfect. She gangs up with my other half about me spending time on OcUk so now I have a comeback!

esK` · 23 Jan 2012 at 15:22

You can get a pdf editor for openoffice I've used that once or twice and it does the trick.

Draeger · 23 Jan 2012 at 15:29

This works pretty well, free online unlocker. Just upload the locked PDF to it and then download the unlocked version :-

http://www.pdfunlock.com/

I use Foxit PDF Editor afterwards to edit the PDF's.