Jul 02 2018 12:54 AM
Jul 02 2018 12:54 AM
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!
Jul 02 2018 01:51 AM
Jul 02 2018 01:53 AM
Hi Juan,
Thank you for replying. Opening the PDF is not a problem, but I would like to be able to edit the PDF in the browser. Such as annotations or comment the text.
Regards,
Carl
Jul 02 2018 01:56 AM
Oct 03 2018 11:07 AM
Are you aware of any timeline for such a feature / app to be available to 365 users?
Oct 03 2018 04:37 PM
Oct 04 2018 02:01 PM
Nov 07 2018 10:22 AM
Actually, the responses above are partially correct. You are able to edit the pdf in place with a few extra clicks. As long as you have an adobe version installed that has edit capabilities....try this
Please let us know if this works
Jan 14 2019 09:33 AM
I just set up an entire workflow for staff and important committee members in which the committee members, who are external users, would mark up a fillable PDF with comments in comment boxes I created as fillable fields. I just got an email back from one of them saying his comments disappeared after he filled them in. The entire point of this was to make document review and commenting as easy as possible with as few clicks as possible. Requesting a committee of six people either use internet explorer (you overestimate how many people even know what the word 'browser' means) and follow additional steps, or download and reupload (bad, bad, bad practice in any situation) the PDF is not even under consideration. It's humiliating that I did a training for everyone, created documentation, and then come to find out that a feature that should be there isn't.
(While MS is at it, please make fillable PDFs appear in their fillable form upon clicking on the file name in SharePoint - as it is, you have to hover over the file, click the vertical dots > Open > Open in browser for the file to even appear in its fillable form - which as previously detailed is a bait and switch anyway, since if you fill it out, it won't save)
Jan 14 2019 10:43 AM
Jan 14 2019 11:00 AM
I just finished doing that but your suggestion to set the library to default open to client app I'll do now. Thanks Alan. But if any MS staff is reading, this fix doesn't suffice. Issue *not* resolved. Nothing short of near-total Adobe-MS integration will do in the business world...if MS can't imitate PDF features for IP reasons. You see my end users don't care what they click on. They just want to click on something once and have it work right. This is the smartphone mentality. People are no longer used to having to hunt around on screens for things.
Feb 27 2019 03:29 AM
Hey. I have been using Acrobat Adobe DC for last several years. Of course you may use even Word for editing but I prefer pdf maker to create and edit pdf files in the brower it's easy and convenient you just can do it in your browser but there's also a desktop version there.
Mar 12 2019 09:45 AM
Apr 03 2019 01:46 PM
@Michael Malloy this worked for me! Thanks for the post!
Apr 03 2019 01:55 PM
May 30 2019 08:19 AM
@Deleted and all other views of this thread - please up-vote this feature in UserVoice.
Don't relax (or be-lax) as some have suggested here - use you voice and vote here:
https://office365.uservoice.com/forums/264636-general/suggestions/18507451-allow-editing-of-pdf-files-from-sharepoint-online
May 30 2019 09:00 AM
Actually relaxing and using your voice are not mutually exclusive. It is quite possible to relax and use one's voice simultaneously.