Adding new text to existing PDF

[Pat_Dohne@adobeforums.com]

How do you add new text to existing PDF and how do you adjust the font size?

[Pat_Dohne@adobeforums.com]

How do you add new text to existing PDF and how do you adjust the font size?

[Jon_Bessant@adobeforums.com]

Version of Acrobat?

Jon

[A_K_Noorian@adobeforums.com]

I've got the same question and I am using Acrobat 6.0.2 Professional.

[Jon_Bessant@adobeforums.com]

OK - ALT-CLICK into the area you want *new* text ... then select the
TEXT and you're away ...

If you then want to embed the font (which should be mandatory for print
and preferable for screen viewing) then highlight the text and
CONTROL-CLICK and PROPERTIES and go to the TEXT tab and select EMBED.

The font will be embedded once you save the PDF.

Your next potential problem - the PDF version will now be 1.5 so use the
PDF-OPTIZER under ADVANCED to down-version (at the top) but be sure to
DESELECT the downsampling options ....


Jon

[A_K_Noorian@adobeforums.com]

To insert new text in a pdf go to the Tools Menu, select Advanced Commenting and then select Show Advanced Commenting Toolbar.
To type new copy, select the Text Box Tool (T+) on the Advanced Commenting Tool Bar, position the cursor where you want to type, then click-drag to make a text box. A flashing cursor in this box shows that you can begin typing.
After you have typed what you want, to change the properties of what you have typed (font type, size, paragraphy style, etc.) open the Properties Bar. This can be found at menu selection View > Toolbars > Properties Bar. This will open a toolbar for the text properties. Highlight the text you want to change and create a different type style from the drop down menus available.
To change the appearance of the text box, select the Text Box Tool and the Properties Bar will show the fill and border colors plus some other options. Select and change whatever features you want. To return to the text properties, double click on the text box.

[tuqqer@adobeforums.com]

Hey, thanks, A K. This is just the question I came here to ask. Good instructions!

[Jon_Bessant@adobeforums.com]

What should be borne in mind is the difference between both solutions ...

My solution adds text to the actual PDF itself
The subsequent solution adds the text to a commenting layer which is not
part of the PDF objects page ..

Take your pick ...

Jon

[de_Siem@adobeforums.com]

Aah bollox, could have saved myself some typing.
:)

[A_K_Noorian@adobeforums.com]

I tried to do it the way you described, Jon, but I couldn't make the keyboard shortcuts work for me. Can you make a description that references pull down and flyout menus rather than alt and control instructions?

[de_Siem@adobeforums.com]

ALt-click with the text touchup tool selected and not the hand tool.

[Steve_Werner@adobeforums.com]

Which would be Option-click on the Mac, de Siem.

[de_Siem@adobeforums.com]

my mac keyboard has the letters Alt printed on the option key, Steve.

Why is it called option anyway when it says Alt on the actual key?

Is it because 'it's different?

:)

[Larry_G._Schneider@adobeforums.com]

On a US Apple keyboard, it is labeled Option.

Larry

[A_K_Noorian@adobeforums.com]

Groovy, thanks for the tip about selecting the text touchup tool before doing the option/alt click. Now it works for me. That little step of selecting the correct tool may seem obvious to some, but it wasn't for me.

[Steve_Werner@adobeforums.com]

de Siem,

It's been referred to as the Option key on the Mac for as long as I know. On some keyboards the word "Alt" doesn't even appear, and most Mac users who don't work with Windows wouldn't know what you're talking about

[Jon_Bessant@adobeforums.com]

I have a US keyboard (bought my Mac in SF) and it has both 'Alt' and
'Option' on the same key ;-)

I must admit, I use 'option' also - maybe this is a european thing ...
loving things old ...?

Cheers,
Jon

[Larry_G._Schneider@adobeforums.com]

Jon,

You're right, it does have a minature alt in the upper corner.

Larry