1) Abbreviator 2) Abridger 3) Censor 4) Copyedit 5) Copyread 6) Couch 7) Edit 8) Emend 9) Redactor 10) Reviser 11) Rewriter 12) Subedit 1) Blue-pencil 2) Change copy 3) Change for the better 4) Delete before publishing 5) Edit 6) Edit a report 7) Edit for publication 8) Editor 9) Editor in chief 10) Prepare for print 11) Prepare for publication 12) Ready for publication 13) Redactor 14) Reviser 15) Rewrite man 16) Rewriter 17) To bring together in one unit 
to edit; work into shape; to frame
• (v. t.) To reduce to form, as literary matter; to digest and put in shape (matter for publication); to edit.
Re·dact' transitive verb [ Latin redactus , past participle of redigere ; prefix red- , re- , again, back + agere to put in motion, to drive.] To reduce to form, as literary matter; to digest and put in shape (matter for publication); to edit. 
[n] - someone who puts text into appropriate form for publication
redactor noun someone who puts text into appropriate form for publication
to edit, revise