How to Edit PDF Files For FREE – Simplest Way of Editing or Creating PDF Files
Yes, I know. Sometimes when you download a very important form related to your career,job or office and you need to fill it and send it quickly, you may feel helpless because form is in PDF and you do not know – “How to edit PDF files ?”
Searching online about editing PDF files will lead you to many Paid software or products which is not the way you or most people like. Some free online tools are not the right option for your important files, forms and larger files.
But now you do not need to bother about it because we have very easy, permanent and free method to edit/create PDF files thanks to Free Open Office Suite.
Open Office Suite is a alternative for Microsoft Office. Open office Suite is also known as OpenOffice.org (OOo). Its main components are for word processing, spreadsheets, presentations, graphics, and databases which are Writer, Calc, Impress, Draw and Base respectively.
OpenOffice is available for a number of different computer operating systems, is distributed as free software. As free software, users are free to download, modify, use and distribute OpenOffice.
Here are the quick steps for editing a PDF file in Open Office:
-
You have to have Open Office 3.0 or later installed on your system. As said earlier, it is FREE to download and use. To download Open Office, visit download.openoffice.org
-
Now to import PDF file in OpenOffice, we have to install a small Open Office PDFimport Extension. It is also freely available on OpenOffice.org. Here is the Direct link to download page – Open Office PDFimport
-
Download the extension. Open your Open Office Draw program. Go to the Tools menu and then select “Extension Manager”. Click on the “Add” button and then navigate to the folder where the pdf import extension is.
-
Now in Open Office Draw, Use File -> Open and select the pdf file you want to edit. Open it
-
Here we go, now you can edit any pdf file with OpenOffice.




