Touch Up Document

[EMax1]

I am triing to 'Touch Up' a document sent to me, but I get the following error when I try:
'All or part of the selection has no available system font. You cannot add or delete text using the currently selected font'

Since I would like to replace text, or delete text, from this non protected document, what would be the best way?
Thanks in Advance.

 

[tperkins]

PitStop Professional at

http://www.enfocus.com

, with this you can edit pdf files.

Tony Perkins

 

[jmgalvin]

Think you're going to have a problem. It's telling you that you do not have the font that was used in the PDF.

If possible, you might ask the person who created the pdf to change the font to somethng common, like Arial or Times New Roman, etc. in the original doc, create a new pdf and send that to you.

 

[EdwardMartinIII]

Okay, we have this same problem.

The thing is, near as I can tell, I do have the same fonts.

I checked the Document Properties >> Fonts and saw that all the fonts are described as "Encoding: Custom"

It would be easy to use the contracting company that made these documents for us, but they have completely dissolved and cannot be reached.

Is there any way to re-assign the font, say by editing the PDF in a text editor or something, to the same versions of the font, but as they appear on my computer?

Thanks,

Edward

"Cut a hole in the door. Hang a flap. Criminy, why didn't I think of this earlier?!" -- inventor of the cat door

 

[jmgalvin]

If you have Acrobat you could try Save As and select either Word, RTF or Text. Problem is that the formatting might get shot. If there are pictures or charts etc. you could really lose formatting. But it can't hurt to do a Save As and see how it goes.

If you have a pdf with lots of pages and you just have to work on some text on a few pages, you can extract those pages (document window/pages/extract) save those pages as text, etc, work on them, resave as pdf and replace the relevenat pages (document menu/pages/replace).

Using OSX 10.3.8 on a G4

 

[samaba]

If the PDF is not protected - try to change the font to something you do have installed. This will allow you to alter the text (add, delete, change).

Select the text you wish to change with the Touch-up Text Tool. Right click, Properties

Choose a new font.
Depending on the font type - version 7 will sometimes cause this:

The change to a different font was not done because the chosen font and the font encodings in the document differ and could not be resolved.

Version 6 can still alter these files it seems.
Hope this helps
samaba

 

[EdwardMartinIII]

Alas, we have 7.

Thanks for the suggestion.

Edward

"Cut a hole in the door. Hang a flap. Criminy, why didn't I think of this earlier?!" -- inventor of the cat door