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Print contents from textbox

Nita
Registered: Jan 2 2007
Posts: 10

How to print all the contents from the textbox. When I print only what is visible is only printed?
I have adobe 8 prof.
Thanks.

My Product Information:
Acrobat Pro 8, Windows
tedpadova
ExpertTeam
Registered: Dec 31 2005
Posts: 848
If you're talking about printing a Comment Text Box, select Document and Markups from the Comments and Forms drop down menu in the Print dialog box.

ted

The author of numerous books on Acrobat, Photoshop, Illustrator and the Adobe Creative Suite, and an international speaker on Adobe Acrobat, Ted Padova is a well-known PDF guru.

cwoolworth
Registered: Oct 31 2007
Posts: 1
This does not answer the question (at least as I understand it). The issue is that we have a form, online, with a comment box that scrolls. Once the user submits the pdf back to us, we can not print the scrollable text. I can only print the text that we see - not the stuff below the comment box.

Please advise,
Cassie
tedpadova
ExpertTeam
Registered: Dec 31 2005
Posts: 848
Hmmm. You've got me. I haven't tried to print a comment within a scrollable window. My guess is that the view you see on screen is the only thing that can be printed. The print output would need to create an additional page or expand the comment in order to print the hidden text. Not sure this can be handled by Acrobat.

ted

The author of numerous books on Acrobat, Photoshop, Illustrator and the Adobe Creative Suite, and an international speaker on Adobe Acrobat, Ted Padova is a well-known PDF guru.

lkassuba
ExpertTeam
Registered: Jun 28 2007
Posts: 3636
cwoolworth wrote:
This does not answer the question (at least as I understand it). The issue is that we have a form, online, with a comment box that scrolls. Once the user submits the pdf back to us, we can not print the scrollable text. I can only print the text that we see - not the stuff below the comment box.Please advise,
Cassie
Dimitri has a suggestion for printing scrollable text fields at:
http://www.acrobatusers.com/forums/aucbb/viewtopic.php?id=12240

Lori Kassuba is an AUC Expert and Community Manager for AcrobatUsers.com.

twesner
Registered: Jun 21 2011
Posts: 19
Hi,

I think I have a similar problem. I have a PDF of a textbook that I wrote. I don't know what the original software was that created the material, but I had the company download the book in PDF. This was in 2004 if that makes any difference.

I had the company, now out of business, download the 2 versions of the textbook. One is the student version and the other is annotated instructor's edition (AIE). In the AIE version, some of the pages do not show the annotations, which are for the most part answers in the exercise sets.

When I use Examine Document and view Hidden text > Show preview > Show both hidden and visible text, the page is shown the way the AIE should be other than color. What I would like to do is to save a copy of the AIE that show the hidden text when it is opened and will also print the hidden text.There are no layers and I have tried some different commands in preflight, but have not been successful. I could use some guidance on how to make the hidden show and stay shown.

If you would like to view a sample of the PDF that I am referring to, you can go to http://bjkp.com > eBooks and download the sample. Page 54 of the sample material would be a good example to look at. The document is not locked.Thanks, Terry

twesner
Registered: Jun 21 2011
Posts: 19
Hi rusell1960,

Here are a few fixes that work on some of the pages. These fixes may be all you need.

Method 1 – In my situation, the AIE materials are covered with white-filled empty text annotations - so if I print the file with "Document" instead of "Document and markups" selected on the print dialog, the AIE materials all appear. If when I go to print, I change from a printer to Adobe PDF, the file is saved without the white boxes and the AIE showing.

Alternate to method 1 – The 'hidden' text is actually text with visible font that is masked by a white filled text box (a text box that has no text). Text boxes are comments. Open the comments panel where you may examine, sort, show (filter), search and delete any or all comments. If the goal is to delete all masking comments, with careful sorting and filtering you can identify and select the masking comments. You can delete them one by one or by subsets or by all at once. With a ctrl+a plus delete, you can select and delete all filtered and displayed comments. You will need to experiment and get the hang of filtering and sorting masking comments for deletion.

Another alternate to method 1 – A fix that works on some of the pages is to select the Object Select Tool > Ctrl+A the fields get selected > delete, and then use the TouchUp Object tool to delete the buttons. Unfortunately, this only works on some of the pages.Method 2 – To remove all the annots from the PDF, use Preflight > single fixups > search for "annot" to pull up the "remove all annotations" fixup, and run it. This will also remove buttons and links, but you can create a new Profile that only reacts to text annotation types if you need to.I am now able to fix the documents in the section on http://bjkp.com labeled eBooks, but the documents in the sections Educational Software and Print Textbooks will not work with any of these methods. I can see the AIE text material, but I cannot show it. Does anyone have a fix for those pages?

The most perplexing pages are clean looking text in the Print Textbooks section. They have no buttons and, as with the others, the AIE is hidden below. You can go to http://bjkp.com > Print Textbooks > Elementary Algebra 4th Edition with Applications > El Alg 4th Textbook. Three examples to look at would be page 54 (78 of 208), 103 (127 of 208), or 127 (151 of 208). The document is not locked.You can also go to http://bjkp.com > Educational Software > Educational Software and download the sample entitled Beginning Algebra 5.0 Chapter 3. Two examples to look at would be page 206 (22 of 46) or 215 (31 of 46). The document is not locked. If you can get the AIE to show in the Print Textbooks section, I think the same steps would work for the Educational Software section. In fact, if you can get the print section to work, I would not need to use the Educational Software to make an AIE version.Best regards, Terry

rbogie
Registered: Apr 28 2008
Posts: 432
Mr. Wesner, please know that rusell1960 is a bogus poster, not truly interested in the topic -- his purpose is to post web links. i do have something to add to the response i provide a few days back. forward me your email address via the contact feature of the forum and i'll send you my tel #. reid (rbogie) in los angeles
twesner
Registered: Jun 21 2011
Posts: 19
Hi rbogie,

I thought his comment was too general. I don't post much and usually get what I need by reading through the threads. I appreciate the help and will send you my email.

Thanks, Terry