Adding new text boxes in an existing PDF File using Adobe Acrobat

[Briscoe]

I am wondering if it is possible to add new text boxes to an existing PDF File using Adobe Acrobat. I can use the Text Touch up Tool to modify the existing text, but I am needing to add new lines of text in addition to the existing text.

Please advise if you have any suggestions. I appreciate anyones help on this.

Thanks,
Briscoe

 

[Eggles]

>>but I am needing to add new lines of text in addition to the existing text<<

Is there room on the PDF to actually do this? If so, just use the Text Tool to add the text you require. If there isn't space, then you will need to go back to the authoring program ~or~ overwrite some of the text that already exists.

 

[Matzki]

You can try creating your type in whatever program, convert it to PDF, open it, with the "touch up object" tool select your box of text, copy and paste it into your document to be changed and squeeze it into where you need it. Just another suggestion. Eggles response is the most practical.

 

[domino3]

I've not been able to add text using the touch up text tool, as my system tells me that the selection has no available system font so I can't add or delete text. As I don't know how to do this I have added a text box and added the text that way.

However, although the text box with the text in shows on the screen, it doesn't appear in the print preview or on the page when it has been printed. Does anyone know how to solve this, please?

Thanks

 

[jmgalvin]

Acrobat is not a creation tool. Create the additional items in the original program and resave as pdf.

 

[domino3]

I have tried resaving the amended document with the added text box in, under a new file name.

When I open the new document, the text box appears, but when I print preview or print, the text box is not there.

 

[Murgle]

Check the properties of the text box, sounds like it is set to be visible but not printable

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[domino3]

There doesn't seem to be anywhere on the properties to set whether the text box is visible or not.

The problem seems to be that the text box is classified as a comment, and the only way to print comments is to specify this when requesting a print. However, there doesn't seem to be any way of setting the document up to always print the pages with the comments.

 

[Murgle]

In that case why not put the text into text fields instead of comments?

"If toast always lands butter-side down, and cats always land on their feet, what happens if you strap toast on the back of a cat and drop it?"
- Steven Wright

 

[domino3]

Because I can't find any way of doing that. I'm using adobe acrobat 6, and there doesn't seem to be any way of just adding text.

I've not been able to add text using the touch up text tool, as my system tells me that the selection has no available system font so I can't add or delete text.