Tuesday, January 06, 2009

Editing PDF's

We have several online forms in PDF format.  Since I did not create the forms, I don't know if the source documents even exist.

I had to make some revisions today, and remembered how much I hate dealing with Adobe when it comes to modifying Pre-existing files.

You have to use the touchup text tool (found under tools-advanced Editing) to change the text, the touchup object tool to move around the text boxes and other objects, and to move form fields, you have to click on forms, then 'edit form in acrobat'.

All well and good.  But, Acrobat had grouped several text items together in the same text box.  I needed to move them separately.  After searching fruitlessly online, I discovered thatI can hold down the controlkey and then draw a box around the item I needed to separate from the text box.


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