Acrobat renders edited text invisible

When making manual edits in a pdf (missing source files), we find that randomly the edited text will render invisible, and we don't have a method for bringing it back. If I highlight and copy to another program, the entire word will come appear. If I convert the text in a pdf to another font, and back again, it will appear correctly. However, it's difficult to run over multiple edits and make that kind of massive correction. Is this common, and is there a fix?

Hi RisingMoonBT,
Please check out this post in the Acrobat Users forum. Is it possible that the current font color is white? Typewriter text disappears (Edit PDF)
Best,
Sara

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