You’d think I’d know better after 20 years. I needed to make 4 minor three letter changes to a pdf.
pdfiller.com looked promising. no software to up load. Just browse and get the pdf. Edit in the browser. Made my changes. When I tried to save it wanted an account. Ok, that’s needed so I can always access the document later. I used a junk email account.
Then the pricks wanted money. 
Sorry bastards. POS.
$7 bucks a month. When maybe I need to change a pdf a couple times a year? Ah, No thanks.
What irks me is the hidden charge. There’s no indication on the home page of any charge. They wait until you’ve already done all the edits to spring that little surprise.
Luckily I only had 5 minutes of edits. No big loss. I’ll just pencil in my changes on a print out. They can go piss up a rope.
That’s why I’ve always hated pdf’s. From the very start it’s been a rip off. Adobe "gives" you a reader. But you got to shell out a couple hundred bucks for the privilege to write to the document and save it.
Up at work we hosted some of our benefits and employment forms as pdf’s. People could fill them out online and print off. But they couldn’t save. We got enough complaints that I had to switch all the documents to Word forms with fill in areas. Which means the people visiting our web site must have Word.
Was your file smaller or larger than 10 megabytes?
ETA: The first thing I see after clicking “edit your PDF now” is a screen saying that the free online editor does not allow you to edit text and images. Although it does say that you can do “PDF Editing” but I’m not sure what that means if it’s not text and images.
I guess I’m not sure what you did. I just tried it, added some text, and saved it without being prompted to open an account or pay. I never even had an option to edit pre-existing text, but it was up front about that before it started. I could select pre-existing text but not change it.
Edit: Other people are saying the same thing as you. It looks like it doesn’t kick in until you’ve put enough work into what you’re doing. Yep, assholes.
Ok, I found PDFEscape.com they are a lot more fair. Small pdf’s can be edited free in the browser. No account creation. I just redid my edits and saved to my PC.
I wouldn’t use this web site for any documents with sensitive information. I don’t know if they kept a copy of this document or not. Wouldn’t matter because it’s just a Tab for a song that I corrected. Giving them access to a document with SSN’s, addresses, or other sensitive information would be a bad idea.
I bookmarked this one. It seems pretty fair. I can understand charging for a big 30 page pdf. At least I can edit a couple page pdf free.
btw, my edits were a little rough. I wasn’t sure what font the original person used. I got something close. There were no grid lines when I inserted text. So my text isn’t straight across the page. I really don’t care. It still looks a hundred times better than penciling in changes on a print out.
You can export the pdf to Word. Make more precise changes and then export back to pdf. More trouble than it was worth for this trivial project.
This web site would be perfect for filling out pdf forms. Just click where they want you to type in data.
I think you were going to pdffiller.com, which is why I was confused. PDFescape bought pdfiller.com and redirected it to their site, which is what I was going to.
thank you for the correction. pdffiller.com is the tricky site with hidden charges. Imagine somebody that spent 45 minutes filling out a job application with all their prior job history and references. Only to discover they couldn’t save their work until they coughed up money.
That’s Not cool. I’m thankful I only had a few minutes of editing lost.