11. Adding and Changing Text and Graphics

In This Chapter

Touching Up Text 171

Modifying Line Art 173

Adding Headers and Footers 176

Adding a Background 179

Adding a Watermark 181

PDF isn’t intended to be an editable document format. Adobe meant a PDF file to be a snapshot of a document as it was at a particular time.

Nonetheless, Acrobat breaks with that vision by providing extremely useful tools for touching up a document, making common changes that are convenient to some people and absolutely vital to others. This includes fixing typos, adding page numbers, and even modifying images using Adobe Photoshop or another editor of your choice.

We’ll examine two groups of tools in this chapter, both of which help you modify the contents of ...

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