can photoshop .pdf files be edited in other software?

[Megg81]

Does anyone know whether files saved as photoshop .pdf have text which is editable in other programmes?

I have no pdf editing sofware to try it on, only programmes that convert to pdf. Thanks all!

[gwpriester]

Megg - Are you still using WD6 as in your profile?

I tried this in WD7 Premium and it was semi successful. Not sure if it works with WD6.

Goto File > Open and select PDF (.pdf). If you have a PDF option. Open the file and select Optimize for Editing.

[Megg81]

Thanks! I'll try that one out. does anyone know if a photoshop pdf can be edited in something like acrobat though?

[Albacore]

No not really! PS is a raster programme but it has some vector tools. Paths & text in theory could be edited in Acro Pro but any PDF drawing programme would be a better choice for all the you could do in Acro would be to select & edit text and delete paths if the file had not been flattened in PS. Most art packages would be able to edit a .psd file.

[Zechariah]

In fct, pdf can be manupilate, such as annotating, conpressing, conversion by some program, you can find some free online pdf editing program, I've tried several time, they are good.

[DOAADI]

I was always under the impression that PDF files were intended to be final-version files and, as such, were not intended to be edited as though they were intermediate or source files. They don't contain all the information in the original source or design file (like layers and so on). Text is held as an image and not an embedded font, isn't it?

I know that you can get stuff that will edit the text, but it can mess up layouts.