Scanned file is made up of many text boxes

Dumb question, I get a scanned file as a pdf and wanted to open it and highlight certain items; the file was made up with dozens of different text boxes, is that normal, thanks

Yes. It depends upon the form of the original document. It is not trying to recreate the original structure, it is trying to make sense of the printed page in whatever manner it can. The amazing thing is not how well the bear dances, but that the bear dances at all.

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When I export my file to generate a .pdf, the text box literally has a box around it! How do I make that line disappear?

Sounds like you have a stroke on it. Select the frame and set the stroke to none.

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I am sure that many people know how to load a .txt file into
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the flash file itself. Thank you.

http://www.oman3d.com/tutorials/flash/loading_external_text_bc/
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How to get the number from a xml file to flash as3 Text Box "Get_Days"?

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I have to daily update the number of days finished from the specified days. Say, One work to be finished in 30 days. And the start day is today. So, tomorrow it will be 29 days left. and so on....
So, instead of reducing one number everyday from the last days number using flash, it will be easy changing in xml file.
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I have a simple text box "dynamic text box" and the instance name : "Days_Left". Since I am learner, I cannot make complex projects. I am learning small things with very few lines of code which can be modified using xml files.
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then you can use:
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How do I get a text box to expand by user and print all text?

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Acrobat 11 - Text boxes are garbled

Windows XP, Acrobat 11 (Hebrew)
I saved a number of Word 2007/2010 documents as PDFs and then combined them into one PDF. The original Word documents contained many textboxes. Although the individual Word documents that were saved as PDFs are fine, and the combined document looks fine as well, sometimes errors occurred.
I printed the document to my in-house printer and all was fine. I used WeTransfer to transfer the file to a publisher.
a) When he printed, a few of the many text boxes were missing some of the text. He sent back the file. I fixed the textboxes and sent it back using WeTransfer. At that time, a different textbox was missing some text. Also,
b) Occassionally, within a textbox, the ? at the end of a line printed at the beginning of the line instead.
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Thank you LoriAUC and Bill for responding. If you have patience, I still need help.
Lori, no, I had not been using the PDFMaker on the Acrobat ribbon. I had gone to Save As and changed the Type to Adobe PDF. I looked at the Acrobat ribbon now but I am having difficulty.
I see that under Preferences | Advanced Settings | Fonts, I can select fonts to embed and remove those in the Do Not Embed list. How do I ensure that this sticks? If I click Save, I am prompted for a name but when I return to the Advanced Settings | Fonts dialog box, the original setting is there.
How do I make the setting stick? How do I use my named settings? Is there a way I can use it automatically for all ~90 previously saved documents I am working with?
Also, should the “Subset fonts when percent of characters used is less than:” be set to 1?
Bill, where are the Print or Press job settings?
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When converting from docx to pdf, some text boxes are missing. Why?

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Please share your file if possible so that I can look into the problem. Please use below link:
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I have Illustrator version 15
I made many text boxes with multiple colors, red and black on each letter. I was wondering if there is a find and replace tool for multiple text boxes. I want to change the reds to black and the blacks to light grey. I tried clicking on change swatch color but it only worked for the letter I had selected, even with the global option selected. I then when to select -> Same -> Color Stroke but it just selected each text box on the page....Is there anyway to do this?
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Not exactly a find and replace but you can do it.
Select the text frames yu want to change the colors using the shift key to click select the frames.
Then go to Edit>Edit Color>Recolor Art
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There is a live preview /so you will see the change in case you want to pick a different gray, of course you can always go back to the recolor art dialog.
I am afraid you manually have to select text frames with multiple colors in order to accomplish what you want but the method above I believe is the only want to change the colors.
This video shows how the dialog works but pretend the one frame I did not select is another color.
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Creating text boxes is causing VERY slow performance

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without it lagging and pausing, which is not productive whatsoever.
is there any fix at all to this or is this ever going to be fixed? i have found no solution.
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You did receive the file. You already replied to me about the issue. See below.
Since I have last spoken with you I did download os 10.7.5, and I will work with it today to see if it's any faster. Unfortunately as I predicted it "broke" 2 of our other powerpc applications that I absolutely have to have, so that's a whole other set of issues that this has caused me.
I will let you know if I still have the same performance issues. This is the last thing I can try because I cannot upgrade this mac to 10.8. If the performance isn't better I guess I'll just be forced to go back to CS5.
Chris Smith
Drum-Line Graphics Dept. Manager
800-284-2456 Ext. 133
Hi Chris,
We are officially NOT supporting 10.6.8. The official supported platforms of Mac are 10.7 onwards.
I too would recommend that you upgrade as we haven't performed much testing on 10.6.8. It currently works but the outcome may not be nice as you are already facing.
Maybe you can try upgrading to 10.7 or 10.8, your mac may support these platforms and so does InDesign.
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I will try to explain this as best I can, bare with me.
I'm using Acrobat X 10 and I'm trying to print a PDF file that are slides from one of my university classes. The problem I'm having is that some of the text is not printing or printing very lightly. I have solved this problem by going to the tools panel and then edit document text tool. From there I select a text box, select all text in said text box, select properties, click on the text tab and then changing the fill from white to black(following so far?). Now my issue is that there are many text boxes, to the point where only one word occupies a text box. So what I'm wondering is if there is a way to select all the text boxes so I can do this proccess for the whole file rather than selecting each text box and repeating the proccess, as this is very time consuming.
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I need to my data to merge in one text box on multiple lines.
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Can you extend multiple over set text boxes at once?

I am in the process of changing many large Indesign files from MAC to PC which has created, in some cases, hundreds of over set text boxes.
I'm looking for a faster way of fixing these files as extending each of these text boxes one by one is taking up a lot of time. I am currently using the pre-flight panel.
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Not the answer to your question, but merely moving from Mac to PC should not be causing text to go overset. Seems likely you've got a font substitution, or perhaps you've also changed the version of ID, or both.
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PLEASE HELP anchored text boxes corrupted CS5

I have a book I've been working on for some time that is close to final. It has anchored text boxes in the sidebar that flow with the text and is being edited in an IC assignment environment. I made semi-final edits to it yesterday and exported a PDF, but when I started scrolling through the pages, I noticed that whole pages of the content were blank. The stories were still flowing as if there was text on the blank pages, but there were no text boxes to select and it was intermitten through the whole document. Thinking the layout file was corrupt, I exported to IDML and opened that. It recovered almost identical to the other file and now all the anchored text boxes are completely locked. I can no longer select them to edit the text or move them. I tried unlinking the IC stories, still locked. I tried going back to a version of the ID file from before I made the edits--figuring the edits would be preserved in the stories and I could just reedit the layout, but while I've managed to recover the pages of content that had gone blank, my anchored text boxes are still completely locked. Does anyone have any suggestions. This book was nearly final and I have a hard deadline.
Mac 10.5.8, ID 7.0.4
I do have ID CS5.5 on another computer. Do you think it would be worth trying to convert the file to the newer version and then back to CS5?

OK, I've completely severed all connection to IC. Anchored boxes are still locked. I exported the whole thing to IDML again and opened that. Anchored boxes are still locked. I copied the text out of the story into a new blank document and the anchored text boxes are still locked. They show little locks on the frames. Is there a way to lock anchored text boxes without locking the story? If there is, maybe there's a way to unlock them? I'm just wondering if some option I don't know about was accidentally applied.

Text in text boxes getting cutoff after publish

We have an e-learning project with a large number of
application simulations that were built using Captivate 2.0 (build
1177). The published swf files from captivate are loaded via XML
into a flash shell we've built that serves up additional asset
types (text, graphics, video) along with the captivate movies to
make up a module. The captivate movies are the only asset being
served up when used (i.e. they are not sharing the screen with
other graphics or text).
The problem we are having, is that once a captivate movie is
published, and played via the module shell, some (not all) text
boxes are displayed with the text being cut off on the left. The
left margin settings appear to be ignored, and the text is cut off
by a couple pixels. This appears to be totally random. In the
almost 200 captivate movies we've created, we start out by
recording the application function we are training on, and then
update the captivate with refined text (using HaloYellow text
boxes), and import audio from a narrator.
When the final captivate is published, we can preview using
the _skin.swf and html file, and we cannot replicate the text box
issue, however once we play the swf through our course shell, we
can see the problem text boxes.
One way we have been able to fix this, is to go to the
problem text box in Captivate, select it, cut it out (ctrl-x) and
then paste it back in. Then we check out the newly published
version (in the course shell) and the text box appears as it
should. The problem is, there may now be other text boxes
displaying the problem text being cut off.
In my research on this issue, I did learn about setting text
margins in the .FCM files, but I am finding this is something that
must be planned for before creating the captivate, as it is not
something I can change and then hope to take effect when the movie
is next published.
If this link works, it should launch a web page with an
example of one of these problem text boxes..
See
what we are experiencing..
Has anyone seen this issue? Would publishing these from
Captivate 3 help?
Thanks!
Sean -

Hi Sean
In addition to what jbradley88 offered, there is one other
factor that could be at play here.
Do the captions look okay on some PCs and not on others? If
so, it could point to an issue with the DPI settings for the PC. If
this is the case, you will want to perform the following steps on
the PCs where this is an issue.
* Display the Windows Desktop (Easily done by pressing the
Windows key and the D key together)
* Right-click the Windows Desktop and choose Properties from
the context menu
* Click the Settings tab
* Click the Advanced button
* Click the General tab
See the drop-down labeled DPI setting? If that is set to 120,
try setting to 96 and see if things improve.
This may not be what is at play, but I've seen it have an
impact on other display issues.
Cheers all... Rick

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Have a nasty pricelist to do, 200+ pages. Listings top to bottom, lines everywhere.
I've figured out a workflow that would make my life 1000 times easier if I can do like I can do in a DIV on a website, put a photo (in this case an Illustrator file) into the background of a text box. I can then use the inset feature to push the text down off the top edge a bit, leaving the heading which are part of the Illustrator file, untouched as text flows.
I can find nothing on a google search about doing this. It's either use 2 boxes, one graphic, one text, or not at all.
Anyone know of a way? An Extension to ID maybe? I'm using CC2014 mac.
Oh ID pro's, can this be done at all?

Bummer.
It's a bit tricky but you could anchor the background image behind the text. So:
An illustrator file and some text:
Cut the background, place your cursor at the beginning of the text, and Paste:
Open Anchored Objects Options and choose Above Line with enough negative Space after to position the background:
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