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The answer is "it depends." It depends on what content and to what degree you want to edit it.

Acrobat Professional has some limited support for "text touch-up" and of course, can call Illustrator or Photoshop to handle editing of vector and image data within the PDF file. There are also some third party plug-ins that provide further editability. In the case of text touch-up, yes, you must have the fonts in which the text is formatted installed on your system.

In general, PDF is storing content in its final format, not a file format for editable data. You should not expect to be able to move paragraphs around, reflow text, etc. Text touch-up is for emergency fixing of incorrect prices and comparable typos, for example.

The only real exception to this is the forms capability of PDF in which specific fields can be filled in, verified, and transmitted back to the sender.

- Dov