How To Edit PDF in InDesign

In this PDFMarkz tutorial, we will show you how
to edit a PDF directly within Adobe InDesign.
First, let’s illustrate “The Problem.”

Open a New InDesign document.
Now, let’s create a container box.
Place the PDF you would like to edit in the container.
Try to “Edit” the text and you will quickly learn this is not possible.
That is because the PDF file is flattened, and the
text objects are not available, and images are not accessible.

Next, Let’s Implement “The Solution”

To effectively edit PDFs in Adobe InDesign go to:
The “Window” Menu in the top menu bar -> Links ->
Right click the Contextual Menu in the Links panel;
select “Edit With” and choose: PDFMarkz.app
After selecting PDFMarkz, you will see both a Preview and the Conversion options.

Select InDesign, and PDFMarkz will open the current file into a brand new Adobe InDesign layout.

At this point, you now have access to both text and images object.

You can edit the text and move images as you normally would within Adobe InDesign.
This enables you to modify flattened PDF files and update them, whenever the original InDesign native or source file cannot be found.

Software To Edit PDF In InDesign

PDFMarkz is an application developed by Markzware.
It enables users to convert PDFs to several file formats.
For example: PDF to InDesign, PDF to QuarkXPress, PDF to Affinity Publisher.

Examples of when and why to edit PDF files within Adobe InDesign include:
• Updating and editing dates, part numbers, table of contents,
indexes, historical information, modernizing a design and layout.