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Text editing

ccappelli
Registered: Jun 19 2007
Posts: 2

I use Acrobat 7.0 and am considering upgrading to 8. Can I take an existing pdf and edit the text to form columns and it will reflow properly? Can i do this in 7 or do I need 8? Also will all fonts stay the same?

My Product Information:
Acrobat Standard 7.0.0, Macintosh
tedpadova
ExpertTeam
Registered: Dec 31 2005
Posts: 848
Text editing in Acrobat 8 remains limited as in all previous verions of Acrobat. You're best off returning to the original authoring program to reflow the text.

If the font is embedded in the PDF, whatever you are able to do with text will retain the font information.

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.