Adobe Acrobat 9 PRO Extended - Manual (Page 336)

330 USING ACROBAT 9 PRO EXTENDED
Editing PDFs
Last updated 9/30/2011
You can edit text on rotated lines in the same way as on horizontal lines, and you can edit text using vertical fonts in
the same way as text using horizontal fonts. The baseline offset or shift for vertical fonts is left and right, instead of up
and down for horizontal fonts.
Note: Editing and saving a digitally signed PDF invalidates the signature.
Edit text using the TouchUp Text tool
The TouchUp Text tool works best when editing only a few characters. For more extensive editing, make changes in
the original document (if available), and then recreate the PDF.
If the original document is unavailable, try exporting the PDF to Word (File > Export > Microsoft Word Document).
For more information, see “
Convert PDFs to Word, RTF, or other text formats ” on page 144.
1 Choose Tools > Advanced Editing > TouchUp Text Tool, or select the TouchUp Text tool in the Advanced
Editing toolbar.
2 Click in the text you want to edit. A bounding box outlines the selectable text. If a bounding box doesn’t appear,
choose Document > OCR Text Recognition > Recognize Text Using OCR. For details, see “ Recognize text in
scanned documents ” on page 69.
3 Select the text you want to edit:
• Choose Edit > Select All to select all the text in the bounding box.
• Drag to select characters, spaces, words, or a line.
4 Edit the text by doing one of the following:
• Type new text to replace the selected text.
• Press Delete, or choose Edit > Delete to remove the text.
• Choose Edit > Copy to copy the selected text.
• Right-click the text and choose the appropriate option.
Note: If you can’t edit the text, see “ Replace custom fonts with local fonts ” on page 330.
5 Click outside the selection to deselect it and start over.
Replace custom fonts with local fonts
Documents scanned to PDF using the ClearScan option in Acrobat can’t be edited until you replace the fonts. During
the conversion to PDF, ClearScan converts the fonts in the document to custom fonts. To edit the scanned text, replace
the custom fonts with fonts that you have on your computer. These fonts are also called system or local fonts.
1 Use the TouchUp Text tool to select the text you want to edit.
2 Right-click the selected text, and choose Properties. Make sure the Text tab opens.
3 Open the Font menu, and select a font below the line that closely matches the custom font.