Add new text

[Luvsql]

I am using Acrobat 5.05. I have opened a pdf file that I need to edit. I can delete text and edit text, but how do I add new text? I have figured out how to add a text field, and make it large enough for all my text, but when I click on the text select tool to add text to the box, it only puts the text in the middle of the box. If I use the arrow keys or the enter key, it doesn't let me fill in the whole box with text (need to do what you can do in Word with a text box).

Can you simply not just type in some text onto a pdf document?

 

[MarcusStringer]

You can't do what word does in a PDF, that's not what it was made for.

You need third party software to get close to what you are after.
i.e Pitstop from Enfocus

Marcus

http://www.midlandtypesetters.com.au

 

[tgreer]

Ditto.

Acrobat was made, initially, to display PDFs and act as an enabler for embedded conent (play movies, activate hyperlinks, etc.).

And, PDFs were meant to be static documents that did for electronic documents what PostScript did for imaged documents: provide an accurate, consistent presentation of a document.

Over time, Adobe got confused. Now PDFs have become a grab-bag of garbled media, and Acrobat has become bloatware. The fact that you can do SOME editing in Acrobat leads people to think they can do WHOLESALE document reconstruction. You cannot.

That said, here are some choices for you:

Open the PDF in another Adobe application, such as Illustrator or Photoshop (preferably Illustrator).

Illustrator uses PDF as its internal format, so you immediately gain the ability to edit the document.

Photoshop rasterizes the PDF into a lot of pixels, which you can edit in a Photoshop-ly manner (apologies to any English teachers who read this).

Lastly, go back, if you can, to the original source document, edit there, and generate a fresh new PDF.

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