New User - I just want to insert some text!

[Nosh]

Hi,

I have never user Acrobat before and my boss has just given me a PDF document written by someone else that he wants changing. I have tried the text touch up tool but that only lets me change one line - I need to add a whole new paragraph. I have tried using the touch up object tool and selecting the text. This puts a selection rectangle around a large portion of the text. I then right mouse clicked and selected Edit Page. This kicked off Adobe Illustrater but once Illustrater had loaded. All I could see was a blank page and nothing to edit.

Please help me out here - I'm well and truly stuck.

Many Thanks
Nosh.

 

[tgreer]

PDF isn't meant to be an editable document. You'll have to create your document in another program, such as MS-Word, and then convert it to PDF.

The touch-up tool is just that, meant for minor touch-ups such as correction of misspellings.

Thomas D. Greer

http://www.tgreer.com

 

[Eggles]

And as you have discovered, you can only edit one line at a time. And if you are adding extra words or subtracting any, the line length will change and there's nothing you can do about it to make it match it's original length. So get hold of whatever publication was used to create the PDF in the first place and do your editing there. Then re-PDF.

 

[Nosh]

Thanks Guys, I have just found out that the person that created this file used Quark to create the source data file. So there is nothing I can do about it as I don't have either Quark or the source data file... back to the drawing board!

Cheers