How to edit PDFs as a Zoho Writer Document
Overview
When you import a PDF inside Zoho Writer, it is converted into a regular Writer document allowing you to directly add, edit and format its content just like any Writer or Word document. For detailed steps on how to edit a Writer document, refer to this page.
Steps
How to edit PDFs as a Writer document
- Import the required PDF document to Zoho Writer in any of these ways:
- Go to Zoho Writer dashboard, and click the Upload button and select the file.
- Use the Import option in the File menu in Zoho Writer's editor.
- Import the PDF document from Zoho WorkDrive. Right click on the desired PDF document in WorkDrive --> "Open With" --> "Zoho Writer (Web)"
- Make the required edits.
- From the File tab, click the Save As or Download As option, and select PDF format to save or download the updated document as a new PDF.
Note
- You can also convert paper forms and static PDFs into interactive, fillable forms using Zoho Writer. Learn more.
- To edit a PDF and save it in the same format, use Zoho PDF Editor.
Limitations
Category | Standard PDF editing | Document automation with PDFs |
Maximum pages | 100 | 400 |
Maximum file size | 50 MB | 50 MB |
Images | Retained but not editable. Can be annotated or deleted. | Retained but not editable. Can be annotated or deleted. |
Tables | Retained as images and cannot be edited. Can only be deleted. | Retained as images and cannot be edited. Can only be deleted. |
Password-protected export | Not supported | Not supported |
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