I am able to use the "TouchUp Text Tool" on some .pdf's with text,
but not others. I printed a page from the web, I was able to:
Highlight text with the TouchUp Tool, delete any text I wanted, even add text.
(I thought this was cool).
So then, I went to my office's (employer) web site and downloaded a few .pdf
text documents that we use as our contracts. I was unable to get the TouchUp Tool to
work.
I went to: Documents>OCR Text Recognition>Recognize Text Using OCR...
After that, I was able to "highlight" but Still unable to "Edit Text"
Any advise would help...
Like I said, I can use this function on some pdf's but not on my contracts...
bradwallace
Southern Illinois
One is the security settings. Unless these are boilerplate contracts, they could be locked to prevent changes to them. Do you see the padlock icon?
Another thing is fonts: Unless you have the exact same font installed on your system as was on the originating system, or unless the person who created teh PDF embedded all characters of the font in the PDF, you won't be able to edit the document. Here's some releveant text from the Acrobat Help:
With the TouchUp Text Tool selected, "click in the text you want to edit. A bounding box outlines the selectable text." When you do that, do you see the bounding box? If no, then the text is not selectable.
"Note: You cannot add or replace text unless the font is installed on your system. You can, however, change text attributes if the font is embedded in the Adobe PDF document."
Hope this helps.
--Paul