This post was submitted by me earlier, but I have discovered a few things since then, so I decided to re-edit and resubmit it.
I am experiencing two issues with my Acrobat Pro (v. 8.1.7 running on a Mac OS X v. 10.5.6). Both are related to the comments/markups "Properties" function:
1. I often change the properties (colour, border, pt width, font, etc.) on my PDF markups. But one property keeps acting weird when I try to change it: the border of text boxes. Here's what happens:
I create a text box, right click it, and go to Properties. In the (border) Style drop menu, I choose "No Border". Every time I do this, I get the message "The value must be between 1 and 12.", and I'm unable to remove the border. What's interesting is that if I go to the Properties bar (see below), I can remove the border easily with no error message, but if I right-click and select Properties I'm unable to do that.
2. I constantly use the properties bar (View>Toolbars>Properties bar, or Command+E) in Acrobat - in fact, I leave it on by default, so that whenever I click on a comment, the properties are instantly available for changing. I discovered today that whenever I open a new PDF, the Properties Bar stops working on the previous document and only works on the most recently-opened document. Even if I select a markup in the previous document, the Properties for that markup will become available for change in the new document. The worst: if I close the document I opened last, the Properties bar stops working altogether.
Is there a reason why the Properties bar doesn't work independently on each separate document?
Can these bugs be fixed? Have they been addressed in a recent update of Acrobat Pro 8? or in Acrobat Pro 9?
Thanks!