Thanks a lot for your kind advice. I discovered that there are free online services available for fixing mistakes made in a pdf containing text. Notably https://www.pdfescape.com , https://www.pdfpro.co/ and others. Its simple to use. What I'm doing now, is to work through the Inkscape manual, writi...

Here is a typical example of advice given by an Inkscape authority on the internet on how to edit text in a pdf. The advisor starts off by saying: "First we have to open our PDF with Inkscape, making sure the “Import text as text” option is selected. If we don’t select this, Inkscape will conve...

I am totally new to Inkscape .92 and don't understand most of what I'm confronted with, but I'm eager to learn. The first thing I tried, baffled me completely. I opened a pdf consisting of text and tried to replace a few words. The first (and still not surmounted) stumbling block was how to select a...

Thanks, the "import" move worked well. Regarding the extent to which pdf's can be edited, much depends on the permissions set. For instance, you can copy text from some pdf's, and paste the text to a Word document, preferably unformatted. From other pdf's you can't do this, because the per...

Hi, I've just started using Inkscape, so I'm a very dumb newby at this point in time. The way I discovered Inkscape, was by searching for a program that can be used to fill in a form in PDF format, without forking out $250 for Abode PDF Editor. I don't have to fill in forms like this very often, sel...