Third-Party PDF Editing Tools

While Acrobat provides some basic editing capabilities, if you need to regularly open and perform extensive edits to multiple objects within numerous PDF documents, then you should consider acquiring a third-party extension designed specifically for this purpose.

There are numerous editing plug-ins for Acrobat, but the one with which I am most familiar and have had much success is PitStop from Enfocus. PitStop provides a wide and deep range of global, page-based, and individual-object editing tools, including a complete preflighting and correction tool set, automation functions, a certification tool for prepress and PDF/X standards, and even a server-based versions of its tools. If you need to edit a lot of PDFs, get PitStop. I ve included a trial copy of this software on the book s companion CD.