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Jul 02, 2018

Edit PDF in sharepoint online

Dear community,  I am trying to edit pdfs stored in a document library on sharepoint with no success.  Is this possible at all to do?    Regards!   
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Richard Bourke
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Jun 13, 2019
SteveMartin, don't you need to configure each site URL via Add an account?
I recall it working great for a user in their own OneDrive or team site (which was added as an account for that user) but not so great an experience when random users share a PDF to others for feedback/review from their own OneDrive. I may have to revisit it if that's not the case.
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SteveMartin
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Jun 13, 2019

Richard Bourke Once installed as an Enterprise App (follow the process on Adobe linked above) you then just need to authorize users on that Enterprise App in your Azure Portal. Authorize everyone using an NT Group.

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    Richard Bourke
    Iron Contributor
    Jun 26, 2019

    Hey SteveMartin, I tested this out again. It looks really slick, particularly for the single user working on a PDF. 

    Do you know if co-authoring is something that will be coming along in the future? It seems to not fully support it currently from my limited testing.

    Also, am I correct that for commenting/annotating PDFs there is no license required?

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      SteveMartin
      Brass Contributor
      Jun 26, 2019

      Richard Bourke - Sorry not sure on Adobe's plans to allow co-authoring 

      Annotating/Commenting/markup does seem to be totally free - no Adobe account login required.
      They get you when you want to combine, Organize or Convert PDFs - plus they want to hook you on their signature document signing platform.

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      KD10018
      Brass Contributor
      Jun 26, 2019

      No one in the organization can find a print command when opening a PDF in Adobe Document Cloud. Is this to be expected for the "free" version? Organize pages, combine files, export PDF to Word/PPT/Excel/rtf, download PDF, drawing tool, highlight text, and sticky note are all visible but a print option isn't. Right click options are add sticky note and use drawing tool. I consented for this enterprise app to be used on behalf of the organization and no one is signing in with an Adobe Document Cloud account because they don't have such accounts. 

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        SteveMartin
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        Jun 26, 2019

        KD10018 True print option isn't available as I suspect its difficult to do through the Adobe DocumentCloud and not possible like the built in PDF viewer in the browser. 

        Its a good way to discourage printing and do more Sharing :) - in the interim I see you can Download the PDF then view it in the local browser viewer to do printing.

         

        There is no need to signin on Adobe for all of the markup features. You only need to signin / pay for features like convert PDF/Organize PDF and the more extensive editing features of full Acrobat editing.

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