Edit a PDF

The Drime PDF editor lets you change a PDF directly in your browser: edit its text, add your own text, images and shapes, highlight passages, leave comments and crop pages. Everything runs in your browser.

#Open the PDF in the editor

1. Double-click the PDF in your Drive.

   It opens in the file viewer, not in the editor.

2. In the viewer toolbar, click Edit, then Edit in Drime.

You can also:

• click Mark up in the viewer, then Add text, Highlight or Draw: the editor opens with that tool ready;

• click Edit PDF in the row of actions above the file list, select the file in Choose a PDF to edit, then click Choose.

The viewer's Sign button does not open the editor: it starts a Drime Sign request and opens the signing steps. To sign the PDF yourself, see Fill in and sign a PDF.

#The editor at a glance

• The header shows the file name (click it to rename the file), the number of pages, and Saving… or Unsaved changes while you work. Cancel and Save are on the right.

• The toolbar gives the tools below. On a narrow window, the tools that do not fit go under More tools.

• The pages column, on the left, shows every page. To move, rotate, delete or add pages, see Rotate, reorder, add or delete PDF pages.

• The bottom bar sets the zoom and the display (see Change the view).

#Edit and annotate

#Change the font of a text

When you edit or add text, a font panel opens on the side. Search for a font, filter the list by style (All, Sans serif, Serif, Display, Handwriting, Monospace), or pick one in Document fonts or among the standard fonts. Change the size with the − and + buttons around it.

#Crop pages

1. Click Crop, then draw a box over the part of the page to keep.

2. Adjust the box with its 8 handles.

   

3. Click Apply crop to crop the current page.

   To crop every page the same way, open Crop options, then Apply this crop to every page.

Cropping hides the parts outside the box without deleting them: you can crop again later.

#Comments

The comments panel lists the comments of the PDF. Filter them with All, Unresolved or Resolved.

#Search and replace

Click Search in document to find a word in the PDF. You can also replace it: Replace changes the current match, Replace all changes every match.

#Change the view

The bottom bar changes how you see the PDF, not the file itself:

• the zoom, from 25% to 400%, with Fit to width and Fit to page;

• Display mode: Single page, Two pages, Cover view or Continuous scrolling;

• View theme: Normal, Dark or Sepia;

• Full screen, and Hide page controls.

#Work on a PDF with others

People who can open the file can edit it at the same time as you: you see who is there. Nothing anyone does reaches the file until someone saves, and nothing is saved automatically.

#Save your changes

Save stays greyed out until you make a change. While you work, the header shows Unsaved changes. Click Save, or press Ctrl + S, to replace the PDF: PDF saved confirms it, and the editor stays open. The previous content is kept as a version of the file, unless you turned file versioning off: a file keeps up to 10 versions. See Restore a previous version of a file.

To keep the original untouched, click the arrow next to Save, then Save as a copy, and choose the folder of the new file. The same menu also offers Save (overwrite).

Click Cancel to leave without saving: if you made changes, Drime asks you to confirm.

#If it doesn't work

When the save works, PDF saved (or Copy saved) confirms it.

#Next steps

• Fill in and sign a PDF

• Rotate, reorder, add or delete PDF pages

• Merge, split, compress, convert or protect a PDF