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Edit a PDF file on the kDrive Web app
This guide explains how to edit a file in PDF format on the Web app kDrive (online service ksuite.infomaniak.com/kdrive).
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Preamble
- The Web app kDrive natively integrates an editor that allows you to modify a PDF document online.
- Your files are never analyzed and are exclusively stored in Switzerland.
- Refer to this other guide if you are looking for information on editing other file formats.
Edit a PDF file
To access kDrive and edit the PDF document:
- Click here to access the Web app kDrive (online service ksuite.infomaniak.com/kdrive).
- Click on the concerned PDF document to open it:

- Click on the Edit button at the top of the document to access the file editor:

- To add text at the location, size, and color of your choice using the PDF editor:
- Click on the TEXT button in the toolbar.
- Click on the page and enter text as desired.
- Then click on the buttons that have appeared to adjust the text size or color.
- Click on the Trash button to delete your selected text blocks:

- To draw at the location, size, and color of your choice using the PDF editor:
- Click on the DRAW button in the toolbar.
- Click on the page and draw as desired.
- Then click on the buttons that have appeared to adjust the size or color of the lines.
- Click on the Trash button to delete your selected lines:

- To highlight text using the PDF editor:
- Click on the PENCIL button in the toolbar.
- Zoom in on the display size if necessary with the zoom tools at the bottom of the screen.
- Highlight your text as desired.
- Click on the Trash button to delete the selected highlights:

- To insert an image using the PDF editor:
- Click on the IMAGE button in the toolbar.
- Then click on the button that has appeared to import an image from your device.
- Place and resize the image as desired.
- Add alternative text (optional).
- Click on the Trash button to delete the inserted image:

- To create a signature and then sign documents: refer to this other guide on the subject:

- Once finished, save the changes and choose whether to create a copy of the modified document or overwrite the existing file:

Rename a file (PDF or other)
It is possible to rename any file:
- from the editor or file preview, by double-clicking on the document name:

- from the preview, by clicking on the action menu ⋮ then on the Pencil icon:

- from the kDrive tree, by clicking on the action menu ⋮ located to the right of the concerned element (or by right-clicking) then on the Pencil icon:

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