Adobe 9 Pro Touch Up Text Tool - Horrible!!!

I have to say, for what the cost of Adobe Acrobat is, you would think that they would have a better text editing tool available within the software.  It's clunky and not very user friendly.  There has to be a better way to edit text, other than exporting it to Word, editing and back to pdf...

As a noob, I do have a question regarding the best way to maintain PDF Forms.  I have the original Word document and then I create the PDF and manually add all of the form fields.  If I have to make a change to the Word document do I then have to start over with adding all of the form fields?
Is there a way to put field tags in my word document that so that when I create the PDF file those fields are automatically created?
It seems like a maintenance nightmare to have to recreate all of the form fields each time I make revisions to the master Word document.
What am I missing?
Thanks, Stu

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  • Touch Up Text Tool

    Hi,
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    On a separate note, how can I get Acrobat to recognise tables so that it can display these tables in a word export?
    Thanks

    Hi,
    Last first. Tables - OCR provides a "best-estimate" character output of what it 'sees' of the discrete image of the text characters.
    It does not interpret format and layout.
    Higher end applications ($$) provide additional functionality that may output a reasonable "best-guess" of layout/format (of which tables are a subset).
    However, the OCR provided with Acrobat only does the character image recognition.
    Acrobat's OCR output is dictated by which of the three modes you use.
    These are Searchable Image, Searchable Image (Exact), or ClearScan.
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    Use Examine Document to view this Hidden Text.
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    In the Text tab, change selected hidden text to a font installed on the local machine. This may be sufficent to support what you want to do.
    ClearScan output is where you can work "suspects".
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    To edit ClearScan post Suspect cleanup you will need to do this.
    ClearScan output is an Adobe font created specifically for ClearScan.
    Be well...

  • Touch-up Text Tool and Fonts

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    It is a good practice to embed fonts if Touch Up Text is a tool you often use.
    Is the person creating the pdf the person who is editing the created pdf? If not, my guess based on the exclusion list in your post is that the users have different versions of the Arial font installed. There are small, but significant, differences in kerning and line height between different Arial versions.

  • Possible to modify blocks of text as defined by Touch Up Text tool?

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    Thank you very much for your input.
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    The first search and replace action seems basic enough but regarding the second one I would have to manually assign that paragraph style to the line where the data would break because one can only assign character styles in nested styles, right?
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    Thank you very much!

  • Scanned pdf - touch up text tool - upside down text

    Have a few pdfs created with Acrobat, scanned with a Canon 7080.
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    The pdf is oriented correctly.
    It does the same on a few other machines so it seems to be something specific the documents.
    Most other pdf files are fine.
    I have printed to pdf and it fixes the problem (added text is right side up) but I'd like to know how it got messed up to begin with.
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    TIA

    Sounds like you used the searchable text form of OCR. Thus the text is hidden and that is what is happening. To see the text, you would want to use the ClearScan form of OCR. At this point I don't have any good suggestions. A lot depends on what you are trying to do. In any case, trying to do major editing to a PDF with the text touchup tool is not recommended. Not the name of the tool is touchup, not retype. The method you are using will not make any change to the appearance, only to the hidden text.

  • Does Adobe Reader have a "recognize text" tool?

    Does Adobe Reader have a "recognize text" tool, or do I have to buy a version to get this feature? What is the least expensive version that offers this feature? My goal to have PDF version text documents that can be read by a text to speech application, like EZ PDF Reader.

    Definitely not in Reader. I believe (though cannot personally confirm) that Acrobat Standard has it.
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  • Now unable to use Touch Up Text Tool

    Since 2007, I've used a mac laptop for creating invoices in Quickbooks and saved them as pdfs. They are saved to my 2009 IMac as acrobat (9.4.1. version) pdfs. Over the years I have, on occasion, made minor edits using the edit text tool.
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    It is a good practice to embed fonts if Touch Up Text is a tool you often use.
    Is the person creating the pdf the person who is editing the created pdf? If not, my guess based on the exclusion list in your post is that the users have different versions of the Arial font installed. There are small, but significant, differences in kerning and line height between different Arial versions.

  • Installed New Fonts: Still cannot edit with Touch-up Text Tool

    I purchased the fonts I was looking for, installed them, re-booted everything, and I still get the following error message when I try to edit the text.
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    It is also possible that you bought fonts that are not licensed for embedding. In such a case Acrobat will refuse to embed them. Why not just ask the author for a copy of the original file. It is better to edit an original file anyway and not a PDF.

  • Having trouble with Touch Up Text Tool - Please help!

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    Thanks! I installed the font and I can edit in the document!
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    Navigate to the folder that      contains the fonts you want to install.
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  • Adobe XI - Hightlight text tool not working

    Just downloaded adobe XI and the hightlight text tool not working.  How can I get this to work.

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  • Adobe Professional 6.0 - Entering text into pdf?

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  • TouchUp Text Tool not working?

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    Was using Acrobat 7 and it worked great, however this version is just not cooperating.
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    Thanks,
    Ron

    I talked to a very helpful person at Adobe Acrobat Tech support yesterday (Tony) and I *think* I have the problem resolved. [BTW, I don't see any definite mentions to this here: during this problem I was able to delete (using either of the delete keys) text and I was able to hit 'return' to get to a new line - while using the touch-up text tool. Also, I was able to create a new blank document and type in next fine too.]
    After troubleshooting all the possible causes with Tech support (including manually trashing all the /user/library/preferences/acrobat (folder) and all the com.adobe.acrobat ..(8) preferences in the /user/library/preferences folder - and after reinstalling Acrobat 8 - the issue still wasn't fixed. I called back Tech Support and got the same person (Tony) and with him still on phone, I created a new user on my Mac -- recreated the text touch-up tool problem and Acrobat 8 worked just like it was supposed to do. -- so ... the problem was in my 'old' user account & probably a font problem.
    Tony the Tech transfered me over to a Font Tech at Adobe (who was a rude, nasty s-o-b who barely spent 2 minutes with the problem, but that's IMHO) who told me the only resolution, since in his opinion I had a corrupted User account, was to trash my current User account on my system and start fresh -- no alternative! Since that wasn't acceptable to me, and since the Font Tech could or would not give me a straight answer about transferring fonts from my User/Library/Fonts to the computer (root, not system) /Library/Fonts and working on Acrobat that way .... or fixing any font problems in my current /user/fonts -- ..... I hung up the phone and resolved to track this down myself (with the help that was already given to me by Tony the Acrobat Tech.
    The first thing I tried this morning was to see if the Acrobat 8 text touch-up 'bug' was still happening -- and it was.
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    I just fired up Acrobat 8 and tried the text touch-up tool --- and it works fine! No problem at all.
    Final answer (at least for me) is --> validate all your fonts. I used Font Book (Mac OS) to do this. Delete any major errors on fonts you can live without. Some of the warnings you get (on the critical errors and caution warning both are confusing: 'name' table warning, for example. I did find an Apple Developer document that explains (to a small degree) what these mean: http://developer.apple.com/textfonts/TTRefMan/index.html
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    I don't know if moving the Adobe otf fonts to my root /Library/Fonts helped or not since I didn't do a test of this prior to any validation on my user/font file. It was just one step in my bug fix.
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  • Alt-text 'tool tip' not appearing on some images

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