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Floor Map

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2010-07-11 10:55:20
adobenovice3
Registered: Nov 10 2009
Posts: 9

I've got a floor map of the office in which I work in PDF format. It shows the cubicle and office boundaries and walls, and the initials of the people in them. I would like to export, if thats the right term, this document to a file format where I could change the occupants of the offices/cubicles when personnel changes. I may also need to change the configuration of the lines showing the walls and/or dividers.

Someone recommended using TIFF format, but I don't have an application that allows me to edit TIFFs. How can I make my document editable?

Any help would be greatly appreated.

Thank You,

Rick

rb

My Product Information:
Acrobat Standard 8.0, Windows
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2010-07-11 14:12:56
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rbogie
Registered: Apr 28 2008
Posts: 432
use photoshop (or the reasonably priced photoshop elements) tip: avoid jpeg. save as tiff, open and annotate with MS office document imaging (a tool that comes with MS office pro).
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2010-07-11 15:25:55
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gkaiseril
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Registered: Feb 23 2006
Posts: 4308
You could put form fileds over the text you want to modified, but you would need Acrobat 8 Professional or Acrobat 9.

George Kaiser

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2010-07-12 00:00:13
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UVSAR
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Registered: Oct 29 2008
Posts: 1357
Assuming the PDF isn't secured, just open it in Adobe Illustrator. Everything that's a vector in the PDF (lines, text, etc) will be editable, though you may get warnings if there's a font in the PDF which you don't have installed on your computer.
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2010-08-10 08:52:14
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adobenovice3
Registered: Nov 10 2009
Posts: 9
To rbogie: Can I just open the tiff file in photoshop and annotate (thus skipping the use of MS Document Imaging)? Thanks.

rb

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2010-08-10 22:31:25
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rbogie
Registered: Apr 28 2008
Posts: 432
yes, but the annotations (made with photoshop's text tool) will be burned on the image.
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