Work Smarter with PDFelement User Guide
PDFelement 11 User Guide
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Get Started with PDFelement
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Open PDF
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View PDF
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Create PDF Files
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Annotate PDF Files
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Edit PDF Files
- Import as Layers
- How to Add Vertical Text?
- How to Create Outlines for Text in a PDF on Windows
- Add Page Number to PDF
- Edit PDF Text
- Spelling Check in PDF
- Edit Images
- Edit Hyperlink
- Add Watermark to PDF
- Change Background in PDF
- Add Header or Footer
- Bates Number
- Flatten PDF
- Add Audios or Videos to PDF
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Combine PDF Files
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Organize PDF Files
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PDF OCR
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Convert PDF Files
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Fill PDF Form
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Protect & Sign PDF
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Print PDF Files
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Share PDF Files
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PDF AI Tools
- Summarize Multiple PDFs
- PDF Grammar Checker
- Knowledge Cards
- Customize AI Assistant
- Customize AI Prompt
- How to Use Intelligent Image Editing?
- Explain Content & Code
- How to Summarize a PDF to a Mind Map on Windows
- PDF to Markdown
- Proofread PDF
- Rewrite PDF
- Summarize PDF
- How to Get Side-by-Side Translation?
- How to Batch Translate PDFs?
- How to Generate Images With AI
- Chat with PDF
- How to Chat with Multiple PDFs
- Translate PDF
- How to Read Aloud PDF
- AI Content Detector
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How to Import as Layers
PDFelement offers a range of page editing tools to enhance your PDF documents, including the ability to import layers. In this guide, we will explore the process of importing content as layers into your PDF.
Adding layers to a PDF enables better organization and enhanced functionality, especially for documents that require multiple levels of information, such as architectural plans or design layouts. Follow the step-by-step instructions provided below to import and manage layers within your PDFs seamlessly:
- Initiate the progress by downloading PDFelement to your desktop and getting access to the main interface. Proceed to click the “Open PDF” tab on the top left corner of the window to add your PDF to the software.

Open PDF with PDFelement
- Initiate the progress by downloading PDFelement to your desktop and getting access to the main interface. Proceed to click the “Open PDF” tab on the top left corner of the window to add your PDF to the software.

Select Import As Layer
- Initiate the progress by downloading PDFelement to your desktop and getting access to the main interface. Proceed to click the “Open PDF” tab on the top left corner of the window to add your PDF to the software.

Import Layer and Name
- Initiate the progress by downloading PDFelement to your desktop and getting access to the main interface. Proceed to click the “Open PDF” tab on the top left corner of the window to add your PDF to the software.

Tap on the Video Option
- Initiate the progress by downloading PDFelement to your desktop and getting access to the main interface. Proceed to click the “Open PDF” tab on the top left corner of the window to add your PDF to the software.