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TL;DR You can't, at least not easily. Generally speaking, PDFs are read only documents. That is deliberate, as it helps with use of PDFs as a replacement for paper documents. What you see is what ...
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manassehkatz
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2021-12-19T03:49:17Z (almost 3 years ago)
### TL;DR You can't, at least not easily. Generally speaking, PDFs are *read only* documents. That is deliberate, as it helps with use of PDFs as a replacement for paper documents. What you see is what you get when you print, and what you see is *almost definitely* what the author *wanted* you to see. There are some applications that can make changes, most notably Adobe Acrobat. However, I have not seen any programs (does not mean none exist) to do the type of change you are looking to accomplish. In general, when I have changes to make of that sort, I write a program to do it. That is unfortunately incompatible with "I know no programming". In addition, even if you did know how to use one or more common programming languages, I have found that while *creating* PDFs from popular programming languages (e.g., PHP, Python) is relatively straightforward, *changing* PDFs is often much more difficult.