Reply To: editing press ready PDF

InDesign is not a PDF editor. (Adobe really needs to sell t-shirts with that statement.)

Safest you can do is NOT EDITING a press-ready PDF, and use the original document to re-create it. You never know what side-effects post-editing has — I'm thinking of transparency, font embedding, color profiles, and lots of other things I should not think of.

Second best is to use dedicated PDF editing software — which is not, I repeat not one of InDesign, Illustrator, or Acrobat Pro itself. Pitstop does a better job.

Last best is place the PDF in an InDesign document and paste white rectangles over the errors, so you can type in new text. Obviously, one would only do this when in real dire need of a solution.