FlexiPDF enables you to edit text in a PDF document as if you were using a word processor.

  1. Open the PDF to be edited.
  2. In this example, there is an "r" missing from "you".
  3. From the toolbar select the Text tool – the Text tool is the default tool when FlexiPDF starts, so it may already be selected.
  4. Click the mouse on the text to be edited, and you can begin editing. You will notice some pink marks on the page – the pink dots represent spaces, and each paragraph ends in the symbol. These pink shapes appear only during editing and will not be visible in any other PDF viewer.
  5. Edit the text. For this example, we will enter "r" to make "your".
    As soon as you do this, you may see the overset text warning:

    This is because there is now too much text for the original text box. This warning only appears once just to get people used to the idea of overflowing ("overset") text.
  6. To resize the text box and make room for the text, drag the left and right handles outwards to make the box wider. You should eventually be able to get the text to fit. If you can't, you could try using the automatic text fitting features.

    In this example, the new ‘r’ is displayed in red because Show changes is enabled in the Preferences dialog. This change highlighting is only visible in FlexiPDF and not in any other PDF viewer.
  7. Once you have finished resizing, save the changes you have made to your PDF by choosing File > Save As.
    If you you use FlexiPDF in trial mode, you will see this dialog box.

    You now have two choices:
    1. Save with Watermark
      Save your PDF with a watermark added to edited pages. The watermarks can be safely removed at a later date, if you purchase a license. This means you will not lose any changes you make – they can all be recovered after purchasing a license.
    2. Activate
      Unlock your copy of FlexiPDF using the product key supplied when you purchase the software. After activation, watermarks are no longer added to PDFs, and you can remove any watermarks already added to edited PDFs by opening the PDF and saving it again from the unlocked copy of FlexiPDF.