Images in a PDF stop being untouchable the moment you open the Rixoffice PDF Editor: select any picture on a page and insert, replace, rotate, transform or delete it, with control over whether it sits above or below the page content. The workflow covers the two jobs that come up constantly — updating an outdated image in a received document, and adding a new one to a page that needs it — both locally, both written into the file as real PDF objects.
Insert an image
- Open the PDF and navigate to the page — thumbnails or search get you there.
- Choose Insert, Image and pick the file from your disk.
- The image lands on the page; drag to position, handles to scale.
- Rotate with the rotation handle for tilted placements, or set an exact angle.
- Choose the layer: above content puts it in front of text and graphics, below content tucks it behind them.
Below-content placement is the quiet workhorse: a logo behind the header text, a background image behind the whole page, a faded scan behind fresh annotations. Above-content placement is for things the reader should see first — a product photo, a chart snapshot, a pasted diagram.
Replace an existing image
- Click the image on the page to select it.
- Choose replace and pick the new file.
- The new image takes the old one's frame — position, size and rotation carry over.
- Adjust scale if the aspect ratio differs, then save.
Replace is the fix for the classic problem: the received PDF has last year's product shot, the old logo, the wrong headshot. One click, one file picker, and the document is current — no rebuild from the source, which usually is not available anyway.
Transform: position, scale, rotate
Every selected image transforms with direct handles:
| Handle | Action |
|---|---|
| Corner handles | Scale, proportional or free |
| Edge handles | Stretch one dimension |
| Rotation handle | Tilt to any angle |
| Body drag | Move anywhere on the page |
Snap behavior keeps alignments honest, and the page re-renders live so you can judge position against the text around it. Precision placements — a logo exactly in the header corner — are easier done once and then copied to sibling pages.
Delete an image
Select the image and use the delete control. The image object leaves the page's content and the page re-renders. Combined with page operations (delete the page entirely) and text editing, this covers the full "clean up a received document" pass: wrong text fixed in place, wrong images replaced or removed, pages that should not exist deleted outright.
Image work next to the other tools
Images pair naturally with the editor's neighbors:
- Stamps and watermarks are the systematic version of below-content images — the same visual applied to every page, with angle and opacity controls.
- Annotations are the review layer — draw a rectangle around the image area that needs replacing, and the comment travels with the file.
- The AI assistant can generate images and apply image edits as part of a broader request, which is often faster than sourcing the replacement yourself.
| Task | Tool |
|---|---|
| One-off picture swap | Replace, right here |
| Same visual on every page | Watermark or stamp |
| Ask a reviewer about an image | Annotation with comment note |
| New visual from a description | AI assistant, generate image |
What to explore next
- Edit text in a PDF for the content around your images.
- Stamps and watermarks for deck-wide (document-wide) imagery.
- Page operations when the fix is bigger than one image.