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Text pasted from Word appears as expanded graphics

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2009-05-14 06:01:00
jonathanm
Registered: Feb 13 2009
Posts: 6
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Hi,

I'm hoping someone will be able to help me with this problem. I have to edit existing PDF files on a regular basis, and to help preserve the layout (which frequently goes all over the place if I start editing the text directly) I copy my block of text from Word into the PDF document as a text box with a white background and no border, thus I can place it over the top of the unwanted text. I then print the PDF to a PDF using the Adobe PDF printer.

This method has worked fine until I upgraded from Adobe Pro 8 to Adobe Pro 9. Now when I attempt to paste from Word the text box is almost the width of the PDF, with the text in it stretched. I have noticed that this is actually a stamp box, but I need it to be a text box. Any ideas how I can set this to be the default action for pasted text?

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2009-05-15 02:17:01
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jonathanm
Registered: Feb 13 2009
Posts: 6
There must be a way of telling Acrobat to paste text as a Text Box instead of a Stamp Box (which, quite frankly, makes no sense). It pastes text as a Text Box from Outlook so why not from Word?
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2009-05-15 03:03:35
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jonathanm
Registered: Feb 13 2009
Posts: 6
OK, well thanks to myself I've found a work-around:

Using the Text Box tool, click in the document to create a new Text Box and then paste (having previously copied the text from Word), the text should appear as normal in the Text Box which can then be manipulated using the Select tool.

This adds an extra step to how I used to do the same task and generally makes it slower and more fiddly, and I thought things were supposed to improve with new program versions!
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