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Deleting certain text in PDF

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2010-03-30 10:00:06
AIME15
Registered: Mar 30 2010
Posts: 3

In a PDF of mine, there is some text in font size 6 throughout the document. Is there any way to delete or obscure all the text in font size 6 throughout the document?

Any help is appreciated.

My Product Information:
Acrobat Pro 9.3.1, Macintosh
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2010-03-31 11:55:44
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ExpertTeam
Registered: Sep 24 2005
Posts: 252
Hi AIME15,

There are lots of lots of similar changes/fixes that can be applied through Acrobat 9 through either RedAction or the Preflight - but not your request.

There is an Acrobat plug-in called 'Enfocus Pitstop Pro' which can perform exactly this search/replace and you can use a fully functional 30-day trial for this task. You should look to use the 'Action List' feature with the following entry:

Select All
Select Font Size=6pt
Remove Selection

Once you run this once - it can be saved and even 'pinned' in the toolbar well for the future.

Let me know how you get on?

All the very best,

Jon

I've been using Acrobat since v1.0 and still get amazed by its power. An Acrobat ACE since 1999

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2010-03-31 18:17:12
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AIME15
Registered: Mar 30 2010
Posts: 3
Thank you for the prompt reply.

I have downloaded the plug-in and I'm not sure what to do after that - in the choices for 'Action List', I don't see "Select All" or any of the other options you mentioned. Using the search bar (see screenshot) yields no results.

Again, thanks for your time.

[img]http://i43.tinypic.com/prd60.png[/img]
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