What is a stylus mouse You probably know you can use a stylus on your iPad or touchscreen phone. There are stylus that work like
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Three reasons editors and proofreaders need to buy a PDF editor, and only three
There are a few things that the free Adobe Reader XI PDF software cannot do. But only a few. For most editorial markup, the free
Common snag with Adobe Reader for proofreading
By far the number one problem my students have with Adobe Reader is not realizing that a “light” version of the program is opening files
Stamps: Acrobat Tips for Proofreader’s Markup of PDFs
In my first post of the “marking up PDFs” series, I showed the many uses of stamps in Acrobat. Setting favourite stamps makes them available
Mark up Title Corrections for Video Using PDF
Anything you can take a screen shot of can be marked up as a PDF. Here is a quick demo showing how to mark up
Intro to Advanced Acrobatics
This handout is from my presentation at the EAC 2014 conference. Get a printable PDF version here. Mark up any file you can print to/save
How to Get a Word Count from a Live Multi-page Website
Sometimes the cart is pushing the horse, and a client wants a quote on copy editing a live (or about to go live) website. Getting
On-screen editing courses May and June
I am rushing to upload the course materials for the PDF mark-up course that starts Tuesday. Yesterday I posted the draft course syllabus. I’m considering
Create a Word file from a PDF
You might need to convert a PDF back to text to get a word count, to create the next addition when source files have been
How to sign and initial a PDF realty contract and print it out
How to add a signature to a PDF and print it out. Also how to add text and initials too. My series on how to