The Adobe release of old products was because they shut down their licence server and so people could no longer re-install products that they had purchased. If you want to turn a scanned image doc into searchable text then you might also need a paid version that includes OCR. I gave up searching for cheap options and bought Foxit Phantom for this. If you want to add fillable form items or insert javascript then you probably need a paid product. For bigger changes you should export the pdf to something like a word document, edit it in a proper text editor and then re-export to pdf. Any PDF text editing is limited to doing things like correcting spelling and other minor changes that do not require wholesale rearrangement of words. If you want to correct text there is no complete way to do it, except by going back to the source document. There are plenty of free options to manipulate whole pages – delete, reorder, rotate, etc. PDF format is not designed to be editable. If you haven’t used a PDF editor before, you might be in for a shock. It depends completely on what you mean by “Edit”. I don’t know if it was Monopoly Money versus open source, or something else. I was sorry to miss the suite ‘for review purposes’, but I have a million others fully licenced, and it was interesting to see the legal dust-up over Lotus having open-sourced it (if that is what it was about). On the other hand, in a different thread I mentioned Lotus Symphony, which I was unable to download (and that may even have been Softonic as well), and eventually discovered a notice that something, and probably that, had been yanked because of patent infringement, complete with a legal notification with a long list of names of heavy hitters including Google itself, the very company that had led me to the site, and that made my day in a backward sort of way. I recall attending shows where Adobe offered the trial version on CD and it got snapped up faster than anything else on the floor. As far as I know, it’s legit and widely recognized, and PageMaker is genuinely history (and came with lots of fonts, if memory serves me right). Softonic is the source I found if you google it, but I can’t vouch for Softonic having no recollection of my ever having downloaded from it. Hi dogberry, noticed your remark and searched high and low for PageMaker but cannot find it, do you have a link by any chance?
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