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2009-02-10 15:44:23
AIRFLOW1
Registered: Feb 10 2009
Posts: 2

1. How can you highlight "Typewriter" text?
2. How can you "copy" then "paste" exactly in the same location on various pages?
3. How can you "select" then "edit" graphics?
4. How can you move text that was created with the "Touchup Text" tool?
5. On an existing .pdf, using the "Select" tool to select existing text, how can you move that text around on the page?

My Product Information:
Acrobat Standard 9.0, Windows
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2009-02-10 17:47:45
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daka630
Expert
Registered: Mar 1 2007
Posts: 1420
While a fair dinkum of neat things can be done to a PDF file (particularly with Professional or better)
it sort of seems as if you are looking for the editing capability associated with an authoring application
and that application's file format. As PDF is the output of an authoring application intended for use in
cross plateform environments you may find use of Acrobat (Standard or Professional) less
"robust" in terms of editing capability when compared to said authoring applications.

With that said, some comments addressed to your questions.

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How can you highlight "Typewriter" text?
--| Using the Highlight Text Tool? Don't believe you can.

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How can you "copy" then "paste" exactly in the same location on various pages?
--| Use the TouchUp Text tool. Select the text. Copy. Go to desired location, select it, position cursor, paste.

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How can you "select" then "edit" graphics?
--| With Professional, 3D, Extended
--| In the Preferences dialog; select the "TouchUp" category. In the Image Editor pane, click the button
"Choose Image Editor". With the TouchUp Object tool in use, click on the image, right click for the
context menu, select "Edit Image". Edit the image with the selected image editor.

See if Standard has a similar preference.

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How can you move text that was created with the "Touchup Text" tool?
--| "Move", in the sense of what is done with a word processor? You can't.
Copy selected text & paste it at desired location or close to it.
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On an existing .pdf, using the "Select" tool to select existing text, how can you move that text around on the page?
--| Copy to clipboard. Paste to desired location. No word processor "move" in PDF.
But then, that's not what PDF is about, eh?

Be well...

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