RE: [PDF-Basics] Acrobat 6 Editing Tools

[Hackett, Steve]

Thanks for the suggestions James and Rachel. The ability to add text and move it around is very useful, and I suspect I have much to relearn with the new editing tools. However, before I can add new text, I need to delete the old text. I am finding this difficult - deleting a line of text (after selecting with the TouchUp Text tool) causes other text to move out of place, and I can find no way to restore it. Sometimes a line of text seems inextricably linked to other blocks of text - is there any way to ungroup it? If I try and use the TouchUp Object tool to select a block of text, this can work OK, but when the text object is behind another object, there appears to be no way to tab between objects (which was possible with Version 4.0).

 

If no-one has found any workarounds for these issues, I would rather use Version 4.0 for editing. But does the Acrobat license allow you to use an older product after upgrading? I know Microsoft often explicitly allow this, but I can find no reference on the Adobe Support website, and a phone call to Adobe Support was rather unhelpful. They referred me to the Adobe Legal Dept., who do not appear to be replying to email or voicemail.

 

I realise Acrobat is not an authoring tool, but all I want to do is edit!

 

Steve

Hackett, Steve wrote:

I have just upgraded from Version 4.0 to 6.0 and seem to have lost the ability to move blocks of text. Where have the 'grab handles' gone that allowed you to do this? I often have to translate the text in PDF versions of drawings generated from SolidWorks, and realigning text is essential.

I am also struggling to move bookmarks. When I create a new bookmark that I need to move to the top of the list, the red triangle refuses to appear at the top. I have tried moving it next to the top, then moving the top one down, but even this does not always work.

Any suggestions?

Steve

Steve,

The grab handles are gone. You can select the text, command-click to get a contextual menu, and choose "Create Artifact". Close the dialog, select the Touch-Up Object tool, click on the text, and -- sometimes -- you can move it. If it isn't covered up by another object. Rather than go through that crap, just erase the offending text and re-type it with the Text Touch-Up tool. Then you'll have an object you can move around with the object touch-up tool. This is a PITA compared to the old way, but Acrobat, after all, isn't an authoring tool.

Good luck.

Jim Plante

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