How to add footnotes to Adobe XI PDF?

September 17, 2013 10:53 AM

I can find google answers for Adobe X, but not XI, and the instructions for X don't work for XI. So. I want to add footnotes while editing my PDF document (something I wrote in word and saved as a PDF, but for various reasons I don't want to work on the original word document). Unlike in Adobe X, there is no "edit page design" button now. Is there a way to add footnotes to your PDF in Adobe XI? Looking up "footnote" in the Help menu yields nada. Thanks!
posted by third rail to Computers & Internet (3 answers total)

I know you don't want to work on the original word document, but is creating a copy of it (so the original stays untouched) and adding the footnotes in that copied document in Word an option? You can then add the things you wish to, and save as PDF then.
posted by brocrastinator at 11:32 AM on September 17, 2013

When you say "Adobe XI" are you referring to Adobe Reader or Adobe Acrobat Pro?
posted by Thorzdad at 12:05 PM on September 17, 2013

Response by poster: Sorry, Acrobat Pro. And, I should have said, it's for Mac.

I would like to do the sensible thing and just edit on the original word document and then save it again as a PDF, but there have been too many subsequent changes on each document to make this process as easy as it should be... :)
posted by third rail at 12:43 PM on September 17, 2013