Adobe Acrobat XI - Manual (Page 383)

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Security
Last updated 1/14/2015
• In the Redaction Mark Appearance area, click the Outline Color icon or Fill Color icon or both. Select a color
from the color palette for the images and text you mark for redaction. Move the slider to adjust the opacity of the
color. Choose No Color to leave the selected area blank.
Properties for redaction text (Acrobat Pro)
Custom Text Displays text you type into the Custom Text option over the redaction mark.
Font Displays custom text in the selected font.
Font Size Displays custom text in the selected point size.
Auto-Size Text To Fit Redaction Region Resizes custom text to fit within the redacted area. When selected, this option
overrides the Font Size setting for the overlay text.
Font Color Displays custom text in the selected color, which you can change by clicking the color swatch.
Repeat Overlay Text Fills the redacted area with as many instances of the custom text as needed, without changing the
font size. For example, if you specify the letter x or a hyphen (-) as the custom text, these characters are repeated
throughout the redacted area.
Text Alignment Aligns text to the left, right, or center.
Redaction codes (Acrobat Pro)
Acrobat uses overlay text to overprint areas selected for redaction. One example of overlay text is a redaction code,
which consists of one or more code entries from a code set. Acrobat includes the U.S. FOIA and U.S. Privacy Act code
sets that you can use. You can use either codes or custom text to create overlay text. The difference is that redaction
codes are text entries that you can save, export, and import. One code set can contain multiple codes.
Note: Codes don’t save the current attributes for overlay text as part of the code definition, such as colors, font
characteristics, and repetition or size of text. Codes only make the overlay text itself reusable in future sessions and by other
users with whom you share code sets. You set other attributes for the code in the Redaction Tool Properties dialog box.
Create redaction codes and code sets
1 Click Tools > Protection > Redaction Properties . (If you don’t see the Protection panel, choose View > Tools >
Protection.)
2 Select Use Overlay Text.
3 Select Redaction Code.
• To add multiple code entries to a redaction code, select an entry from the Code Entries list and click Add Selected
Entry. Repeat as desired. Select Remove Selected Entry to delete a code entry.
• Click Edit Codes to make additional changes.
4 In the Redaction Code Editor dialog box, click Add Set.
5 (Optional) Type a new name for the set in the text field below the list of code sets, and then click Rename Set.
6 Click Add Code, and type the text that you want to appear as overlay text in the text field below the list of code
entries, and then click Rename Code.
7 Repeat the previous step to add another code entry to that code set, or repeat the previous three steps to create
additional code sets and codes.