Rosemary Orchard (7:44)
Yes, Maika, it absolutely is. And my preferred app for doing this is actually PDF Expert. So PDF Expert allows you to do all sorts of things so much like you can with the native iOS tools that Micah's just demonstrate you can annotate and, and things like that. But there's also the option to edit. So this is part of the subscription option with PDF Expert, which, you know, does have a price tag of around $50 a year, but it allows you to do so much. There are a number of free tools that you can use here, but by editing, I could change this PDF and I can actually say instead of PDF Expert, PDF ultimate, and I can literally just pop in here and edit the text. I am failing to type completely right now. And that's for various reasons. And the, the U is gone hiding because of formatting. But I can change editing to nerding out, for example, and so on and so forth. Um, and this is obviously really great because I can even do things like replace images. So I could, you know, I can, I can pop in another image there and all sorts of things and I can add links to text and you know, specify what I want to link to, do I want to link to another page, do I want to link to the web? And this can be really handy. Like, I don't know, Micah, have you ever downloaded one of those really long PDF manuals? And one of the things I do, I delete all of the pages that aren't in English. That is really important. But the other thing that I do is the table of contents at the beginning will have like page seven, like how to drain your washing machine and how to like clean the filter of your washing machine, which is something everybody should be doing. If I tap on it, nothing happens. Why? Why does nothing happen? PDF Expert lets me fix that. So I can say, hey, you know this, I want to link and I'm going to select the page and I want to link it to this page here and that's it done. And then I can go to the page and ta da, that's it done. And there's just all sorts of things that you can do. So I'm going to delete that link. I can add redactions if I want to. So I can redact this information here and by redact it just covers it in black. Okay, you could still restore this later. There is a little undo button there that I can do. But yeah, there's, there's all sorts of things I can do here. Um, and as well as doing editing, I can insert things into the PDF. Um, and so, you know, I've got all my pages here. I could copy this page and then paste it. Um, and so now I've got a duplicate of it. So I can actually, you know, maybe edit this duplicator page and say instead of give it a try, give it a go. And then I can use the two as a spot, the difference exercise. Um, you know, I can measure things. Um, and this is utterly ridiculous, being able to measure a PDF. But also, you know, like, that could be really useful. Um, you Might want to calibrate it to start with. And then you, you can set that up, but then you can measure various things, you can export it, you can change pe. Uh, so I'm using a purple pen here, or maybe I want a yellow highlighter or a little red sort of biro, things like that. Um, and you know, these are all great options to have when you are just trying to like really fax a document. Um, especially it's, um, this is something that I have. Occasionally somebody does, hey, I did a thing and they send me the PDF. I say, hey, can, can you, can you send me the original document? And this has happened a few times of like, sometimes you don't get a response, okay, whatever. And then sometimes it's, I deleted it because I'm done. It's like, okay, but there's a typo right here and I'm not gonna like, retype this. And yeah, you can copy and paste it out and create a new document and so on, but when you could just edit the PDF to fix it. Yeah, that, that's what I go for. And then, you know, it's also quite nice. Occasionally you can just add a little. So if I, if you're doing the edit, then one of the things I like to do is actually I just add a little text somewhere and then I just sn a little emoji in somewhere. And, you know, I might just pop a little party emoji in somewhere and I'll just move it somewhere, like slightly less obvious so that they aren't, you know, they're not seeing it immediately. But, you know, then I, you know, I can add little Easter eggs and see when people are proofing things. Is that actually correct? It's really easy to remove later, even if people have, you know, annotated the document and so on and so forth. So, yeah, there's a whole bunch of things that you can do here. Um, and yeah, I, I personally like being able to say, like, I want to insert a page or I'm going to add a stamp not approved. Like, you know, that, that, that will be an obvious one. But there's completed witness sign here. Uh, you can create your own custom stamps, signatures. I love this. You can save signatures. So I can create a new signature. Um, and I just need to sign this on its side, um, so I can go, hello. Um, that is possibly the worst hello ever known. But that's okay because now I can tap where I want to sign and that is. Okay, we're going to pretend that that says hello, we all know it doesn't really say hello, but I also didn't lift my finger while drawing it and I was doing it on an iPhone screen. So it's fine. You can add sound, you can do all sorts of things. So, you know, PDF Expert is just if, if you want to do more with a PDF and you want something that is designed for, you know, PDF editing, this is it. One of the other things, and I have mentioned this before with PDF Expert, is when you go to print, this is one of the apps that allows you to specify the scaling on print, which can be really useful if, for example, everything is just a little bit big and you don't have a printer that will go right to the edge of the paper and you just need to bump everything in a little bit. Like, sometimes apps will do this automatically, sometimes they won't, but sometimes you're like, actually no, what I'm going to do, I'm going to print this at 80%. Okay. And then I can actually write around the sides because I've got space and I don't have to stick post its on top, which I then have to lift up. I can like, you know, circle a thing and draw an arrow and write next to it and that can be really helpful. So, yeah, there's all sorts of things that you can do with PDF Expert and yeah, I found it to be a really useful app over the time. Over time. Time.