Johnny Chin Posted November 17, 2019 Share Posted November 17, 2019 Hello everyone, I made my page design in Affinity Designer and need to export as pdf and then place into InDesign. I will re-add the text on InDesign, arrange these text to the location of the text in the pdf and then delete the text on pdf so there won’t be any error when I export the final book as ebook and print ready pdf. But I found that in InDesign I can’t edit the pdf and not even select or snap object to the elements in the pdf, so I think to export the pdf to have layers so when I added all texts in InDesign I can delete the pdf and places the pdf again without the text layers. I clicked include layers in the export option(I don’t use e port persona), is it because I grouped all images and text into a group? Do I have to click the add layer in the layer panel? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Staff stokerg Posted November 18, 2019 Staff Share Posted November 18, 2019 On 11/17/2019 at 10:53 AM, Johnny Chin said: But I found that in InDesign I can’t edit the pdf and not even select or snap object to the elements in the pdf, so I think to export the pdf to have layers so when I added all texts in InDesign I can delete the pdf and places the pdf again without the text layers. From my understanding, this is a limitation of InDesign and you'd have to edit the PDF outside of InDesign to include any changes. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Johnny Chin Posted November 18, 2019 Author Share Posted November 18, 2019 1 hour ago, stokerg said: From my understanding, this is a limitation of InDesign and you'd have to edit the PDF outside of InDesign to include any changes. Ok thanks but which programs you recommend? since my pdf are exported from AD and AD can edit pdf and it make sense to use AD but when I click the pdf and edit it, it doesn't save as pdf but I have to go to the export option to convert and export as a pdf again, will this done anything to the pdf that will reduce the image quality even it's not noticeable? if the best method for me is to redo the edit in my AD files and then export as a pdf again then I will do that just the export time will be long compare to edit a pdf and save it Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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