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Edit PDF in sharepoint online
Dear community, I am trying to edit pdfs stored in a document library on sharepoint with no success. Is this possible at all to do? Regards!
Hey Everyone - just letting you know Adobe now has a version of Acrobat that connects to your SharePoint Online/Azure subscription as an Enterprise App. You'll need your O365 Admin to install it but once installed it allows Annotation of PDFs inside the browser for PDFs stored on your SharePoint Online site.
Find more info here:
https://documentcloud.adobe.com/o365pdf/start.html
Opening PDFs seems to go through the documentcloud.adobe.com and is a little slower than browser supported viewing of PDFs but the annotation in browser editing is worth it IMHO.
SteveMartin thanks for the link, but, Acrobat wants another $16/month per seat for this benefit. We already have a PDF editing tool but we are being blocked from using it on the 365 platform (not sure blocked is the right term but you get the idea). PDF format is an open language and we should be able to use the tools we already have to provide this functionality.
- We looked at this recently, if memory serves, you have to configure any SharePoint library/folder location that you want to work in first in Adobe. A common scenario for us is users sharing PDFs for review with others via OneDrive. Adobe DocumentCloud was a non runner as it still makes the process for the user cumbersome.
If you discover different, please let me know.Richard Bourke The Adobe Acrobat Cloud is setup as an Enterprise App authorized to your O365/Azure subscription and then you don't need to authorize it for each folder.
Once the user is allowed access to the Enterprise App they use it anywhere SharePoint or OneDrive
- SteveMartin, don't you need to configure each site URL via Add an account?
I recall it working great for a user in their own OneDrive or team site (which was added as an account for that user) but not so great an experience when random users share a PDF to others for feedback/review from their own OneDrive. I may have to revisit it if that's not the case.
There is still the ability to open the library in explorer view (using IE). This allows you to edit the pdf in place and it saves the changes to the online file with no need to download/re-upload. Yeah, it's not lightning fast...but it does work.
