Searching a pdf document in order to find text parts formatted with a specific font

I have a document that I output as a pdf.
Between the first and last version of this document, I've made some changes, one of those being replacing a font by another one.
Alas, in the final pdf document, under "document properties", "fonts tab", I can still see the first draft font (when it should not be present anymore in my document). It may mean that there's some bit of text that I have not correctly updated.
So I want to identify those chunks of text that are still formatted using the first draft font. I know that it should be done in my main app but, for some (good) reason, I prefer to do this search in the pdf output itself.
So, how could I do this search within Acrobat (I'm using Acrobat XI Pro) ?
Thanks

Possible yes.. a bit klunky.. also yes.
Open the document properties > fonts dialog and write down the PostScript name of the font you're looking for
Open Prefight from the Print Production panel
Select Single Checks (eyeglass symbol)
Select Options > Create New Preflight Check
Call it 'find my font', and in the 'find' box at the top right type "base font". The task will appear in the window below, click Add.
Under 'begins with' enter your PostScript name, then save the Check
Back on the Preflight dialog select the Check and press Analyze.
Double-click the line starting with a red X and in the document itself you will see each instance of that font indicated by red crop marks.

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If you just want this for printing, one thing you can easily do is crop all of the pages to remove the margins. For example, you can rop 2" off the left and right sides, and 1.5" off the top and bottom. Then print using a Page Scaling of "Fit to Printable Area".
To crop in Acrobat 9, select: Document > Crop Pages
be sure to select All for the Page Range.

Older PDF documents are not opening in .msg (outlook) format

Hi,
I’m using adobe reader 11 and outlook 2010. I converted all emails that need to be transferred to PDF and then ‘delete’ the original emails from Outlook. It converts to pdf (so one pdf file can have 230 emails in them). we then open the pdf which contains all emails. Some emails have attachments. I can open the attachments which are word, excel, pdf BUT NOT emails (.msg). I just need to be able to open the ‘.msg’ from pdf attachments. It used to allow me to open before. Its showing “Can’t read” in outlook when I click the .msg attachment from PDF. Then I uninstalled the PDF reader 11 and installed 9.5 version. Now it’s showing “you don’t have appropriate permission to perform this operation” in outlook.
Please advise me to recover these files.
Thanks in advance.
Kalimuthu

Hi,
I assume you have two pdf files and they have different contents.
Let’s say 1.pdf and 2.pdf.
Please try to check it as following:
1.
Upload 1.pdf to SharePoint site
2.
Delete 1.pdf in local
3.
Change the name of 2.pdf to 1.pdf
4.
Upload 1.pdf to SharePoint site
5.
And then could you get the two version of this document with different contents?
Please let me know the result.
Hope this helps
Thanks!
Stanfford

PDF created using Java iText package - Text not editable and not displaying font properties on Acrobat

Hi,
I have an issue in editing the text and viewing the font properties of a text region on a PDF created using Java iText package.
I use Adobe Acrobat 9 Pro Extended and the option Tools -> Advanced Editing -> TouchUp Text Tool.
The strange behaviour is that, I have 2 PDFs created out of the same base PDF and text added via Java iText package with the same Text, Font and other properties.
One of the PDF has the text region editable on Acrobat but the other one has the text region which is not editable.
But both the PDFs are editable via Adobe Illustrator.
I have attached both the PDFs for your reference
PDF_Editable.pdf - Editable on Acrobat
PDF_Not Editable.pdf - Not Editable on Acrobat
Any help or insight to find out the difference/issue with the PDF which is not editable via Acrobat would be appreciated.
Thanks in advance.
Regards,
Madhusoodhan Henryraman

You don't have direct control of the leading of a multiline text field. A common approach is to control the background color of the field with JavaScript since the lines are not really needed when the field is used in Reader/Acrobat. They may be useful when using the form by hand. For more information, see the posts by Max in this topic: http://acrobatusers.com/forum/forms-acrobat/how-do-i-use-multi-lined-text-fields-over-prin ted-line-area-existing-form

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