PDF Editor?

Hey folks,

What is a good PDF editor for a Mac? Adobe Acrobat Pro is too expensive for my needs which are very basic.

All I need it for is to be able to highlight text on an image, not a Word file which has been converted to PDF, but an image which has text and which I want to highlight.

What can you guys recommend? I don't mind paying for an alternative.

 

You know, I tried but I couldn't figure exactly how to do it? If I could do it on Preview that would suit me fine.

Do you know how to do it in Preview?

 

Thank you for your input.

I went back to Preview and messed around with it a bit more and have worked out how to do it. I selected the line tool and made it as thick as possible and then just reduced the opacity so the image [i.e., the portion of text in image format] behind the line could be seen. I didn't see the opacity option before, it was buried in there somewhere, now that that is available, Preview is more than enough for my basic needs.

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There is something else that I need actually, is it possible to export specific pages from a PDF, parts of which I have highlighted in Preview? Say a 20 page document and I highlighted an item or two on pages 5 and 16, I only want to extract these two pages and email them to someone, for example, is that possible? I know it's possible with Adobe.

 

Man, that was really nice dude. I just tried it and it worked a treat, many thanks for the step by step explanation, much appreciated. That was my last big hurdle, if I wasn't able to do that in Preview I would've had to purchase a more powerful editor, now it's all cool.

Thanks again.

 

That's the way I wanted to do it, but it doesn't seem to work. If I select the rectangular selection which allows me to drag out a frame to the size of my liking, all it results in is a frame which has those running lines going round and round and it does not fill it with any colour, and then disappears if I click anywhere else on the screen.

If I go to the shapes icon and click on it and get the drop down menu of the various shapes I can have, and then click on the rectangle it does give me a box with the fill and colour I selected but the problem here is that it gives a large shape each time, which I have to then go and resize every time I use it.

How do I get it to fill with the colour I want when I drag out the shape of a rectangle?

I edited a specific page, saved the document and dragged the specific from the thumbnails to the desktop but upon opening, the highlighted part was not showing, so it looks like drag and drop doesn't work for exporting highlighted sections.