Text box editor acrobat xi

Hello, I'm trying to color fill and frame text boxes in Acrobat xi with no luck. I can't find the text box editor, though I can edit text, font, etc..,.

That's not a feature that's available with text added that way as far as I know. If you add a text box markup (Comment > Drawing Markups > Add text box) you can set up a border and change the border, fill, and text color. You can then flatten this so it becomes part of the regular page contents and is no longer an annotation.

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How to edit text box in Acrobat XI, created by prior versions of Acrobat

Hi, I'm having a difficult time trying to figure out how to edit a text box that was created in an older verison of Acrobat and used to fill out a form.
In my case, I've added text boxes over pre-existing text using an older version of Acrobat.
When I try to click on the text box, however, it seems to pick up on the pre-existing text and not allow me to edit the text box that I created in the past.

Try to edit the text with the 'Add Text Comment' tool which resides in Comment pane. The text used to fill the form may have been written as annotation, hence when you are trying to edit those with editing tools, original text is being edited.

Error With Text Boxes in Acrobat 9 Pro

I have a number of 9 Pro installs that are experiencing problems with text boxes. The will enter text then attempt to save the changes and Acrobat will crash. Other errors we have been receiving are "invalid annotation object" and "R6025 pure virtual function call" any advice would be appreciated.

In the properties of the callout comment you can change the fill color.

Convert PDF to Word - Tables are in Text Boxes using Acrobat 11. How can this be avoided?

Hello All,
I am using Acrobat 11 to convert PDF's to MS Word .doc or .docx. The tables are converted correctly but they are inside Text Boxes. My documents have hundreds of tables and I cant manually remove the text boxes.
Is there a way to remove the Text Box that contains each table?
Regards Paul

Hello Anubha,
My apologies. Hopefully you can see the table is inside a text box. The Acrobat 7 doesn't behave like this, nor do some of the other PDF conversion products.
In my output there is 700 pages with average of 3 tables per page. A manual workaround to get the tables out of the text boxes wouldn't be practicable.
Can you confirm that this is not the expected behaviour. I thought I recently saw a video showing this behaviour as standard for Acrobat 11.
Regards Paul

Resizing Comment or Text Boxes in Acrobat X

Is anyone else having a problem finding corner "handles" when resizing text boxes or comment boxes in Acrobat X?
Whenever I need to resize a text or comment box I have to spend quite a bit of time hunting for just the right place to get the cursor to change into the resizing handle, and it's typically some distance away from the position of the actual corner (or side) of the box.
Is it everyone else, just Mac Acrobat X users, or just me?

In acrobat X when you use text box, you simply get the typewriter function, rathe rthan a text box.
To actually get the text box, you have to actually escape the etxtbox function then go to the select option and then (with great difficuly try to resize or move it). The problem is that some bright spark thought that combiining the typewriter function and the text box function would be a great idea. It is not.

Expand Text Box? "Advanced" text options not hidden?

The title text box/editor is very small in the 10.2 update. It's just big enough for 2 lines of text. I find it fairly inconvenient to have it so small (I am referring to the text box in the inspector). I'm guessing there is no way to expand this to fit more lines of text in, but if anyone knows how that'd be sweet! Otherwise I'm just crossing my fingers it gets a quick update since I'm using it every day for work.
Also, the "advanced" tab always being collapsed in the basic text editing tools is annoying, too. I use this every time I make a title(which I'm making two videos a day, so it's a little more tedious now after the update). Personally, for a professional program I would consider the options in the "advanced" section to actually be basic and fairly necessary...based on how I use it, so maybe I'm not a normal case.
Nothing is broken, just less convenient...
Thanks y'all!

That is a wonderful idea if I could find where to do that (maybe another feedback will be to make finding the feedback area easier (: ). Where can I find the feedback area? Thanks for the quick reply as well!

Wanted a popup text box

Hi all,
I want a popup text box.
My logic is like this:
when ever i select one record and press pushbutton which is located at application toolbar, than one popup text box must display so that they will write some reason for that action and that reason must save in the "ZTABLE".
thanking u...
regards,
giri.

Hi, See this. it is usefull for you as per your requirement.
Step 1. you have to create text object using SE75.
Step 2. follow below program of text box editor.
step 3. call this editor function when user press button.
Step 4 .you need to create screen as per program for container.
program is:
*& Module pool       ZEDITOR1
*& Program to Read text, edit text and save text using editor screen
*& For this program create sap script object using SE75
PROGRAM ZEDITOR1.
*Varriable declaration
DATA: G_CONTAINER1 TYPE SCRFNAME VALUE 'TEXT' ,
      TEXT1 TYPE REF TO CL_GUI_TEXTEDIT , " declaration to create object
      G_CUSTOM_CONTAINER1 TYPE REF TO CL_GUI_CUSTOM_CONTAINER .
CONSTANTS: LINE_LENGTH TYPE I VALUE 256.
DATA: OK_CODE LIKE SY-UCOMM.
DATA : ED_NAME   LIKE THEAD-TDNAME ,
       ED_OBJECT LIKE THEAD-TDOBJECT ,
       ED_HEADER LIKE THEAD ,
       ED_LINES LIKE TLINE OCCURS 0 WITH HEADER LINE ,
       ED_TITLE LIKE TTXIT-TDTEXT .
CONSTANTS: C_LINE_LENGTH TYPE I VALUE 256.
define table type for data exchange
TYPES: BEGIN OF MYTABLE_LINE,
         LINE(C_LINE_LENGTH) TYPE C,
       END OF MYTABLE_LINE.
table to exchange text
DATA : G_MYTABLE TYPE TABLE OF MYTABLE_LINE.
DATA : G_WA LIKE LINE OF G_MYTABLE.
DATA:ZSR(5) VALUE 'TX'.
*&      Module STATUS_0100 OUTPUT
      text
MODULE STATUS_0100 OUTPUT.
SET PF-STATUS 'EDIT_100'.
SET TITLEBAR 'xxx'.
Initialize container of editor screen
IF G_CUSTOM_CONTAINER1 IS INITIAL.
    CREATE OBJECT G_CUSTOM_CONTAINER1
           EXPORTING CONTAINER_NAME = G_CONTAINER1.
    CREATE OBJECT TEXT1
      EXPORTING
        PARENT = G_CUSTOM_CONTAINER1
        WORDWRAP_MODE = CL_GUI_TEXTEDIT=>WORDWRAP_AT_FIXED_POSITION
        WORDWRAP_POSITION = LINE_LENGTH
        WORDWRAP_TO_LINEBREAK_MODE = CL_GUI_TEXTEDIT=>TRUE.
ENDIF.
ENDMODULE.                 " STATUS_0100 OUTPUT
*&      Form read_text_in_editor
      text
FORM READ_TEXT_IN_EDITOR .
ED_NAME = ZSR.                                            "'ZTEST2'.
ED_OBJECT = 'ZMAT' .
ED_OBJECT = 'ZRAJ1'. "ZALOK' .
*--- For Reading Inspection Remarks Related text
CLEAR: ED_LINES[],ED_LINES,G_MYTABLE[],G_MYTABLE.
CALL FUNCTION 'READ_TEXT'
    EXPORTING
      CLIENT                  = SY-MANDT
      ID                      = '01'
      LANGUAGE                = SY-LANGU
      NAME                    = ED_NAME
      OBJECT                  = ED_OBJECT
     IMPORTING
       HEADER                  = ED_HEADER
    TABLES
      LINES                   = ED_LINES
    EXCEPTIONS
      ID                      = 1
      LANGUAGE                = 2
      NAME                    = 3
      NOT_FOUND               = 4
      OBJECT                  = 5
      REFERENCE_CHECK         = 6
      WRONG_ACCESS_TO_ARCHIVE = 7
      OTHERS                  = 8.
IF ED_LINES[] IS NOT INITIAL.
    LOOP AT ED_LINES .
      G_WA-LINE = ED_LINES-TDLINE .
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      CLEAR G_WA.
    ENDLOOP .
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*&      Form MOVE_TO_EDITOR
      text
FORM MOVE_TO_EDITOR.
CALL METHOD CL_GUI_CFW=>FLUSH
    EXCEPTIONS
      OTHERS = 1.
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    EXPORTING
      TABLE = G_MYTABLE
    EXCEPTIONS
      OTHERS = 1.
ENDFORM.                    "MOVE_TO_EDITOR
*&      Module USER_COMMAND_0100 INPUT
      text
MODULE USER_COMMAND_0100 INPUT.
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    WHEN 'CLEA'.
      CLEAR: ED_LINES[],ED_LINES,G_MYTABLE[],G_MYTABLE.
      PERFORM MOVE_TO_EDITOR.
    WHEN 'EXIT'.
      LEAVE TO SCREEN 0.
    WHEN 'DISP'.
      IF ZSR IS INITIAL.
        MESSAGE 'Enter Text No.' TYPE 'S'.
      ELSE.
        PERFORM READ_TEXT_IN_EDITOR .
      ENDIF.
    WHEN 'SAVE'.
      PERFORM SAVE_DATA.
ENDCASE.
CLEAR: OK_CODE.
ENDMODULE.                 " USER_COMMAND_0100 INPUT
*&      Form SAVE_DATA
      text
FORM SAVE_DATA .
CALL METHOD TEXT1->GET_TEXT_AS_R3TABLE
    IMPORTING
      TABLE = G_MYTABLE
    EXCEPTIONS
      OTHERS = 1.
CALL METHOD CL_GUI_CFW=>FLUSH
    EXCEPTIONS
      OTHERS = 1.
CLEAR : ED_LINES, ED_LINES[] .
LOOP AT G_MYTABLE INTO G_WA .
    MOVE G_WA-LINE TO ED_LINES-TDLINE .
    APPEND ED_LINES .
    CLEAR ED_LINES .
ENDLOOP.
ED_HEADER-TDOBJECT = 'ZMAT' .
ED_HEADER-TDOBJECT = 'ZRAJ1'. "ZALOK' .
ED_HEADER-TDNAME = ZSR. "'ZTEST2'.              "ED_NAME .
ED_HEADER-TDID = 'ZMAT'.
ED_HEADER-TDID = '01'.
ED_HEADER-TDSPRAS = SY-LANGU.
ED_HEADER-TDLINESIZE = '072'.
CALL FUNCTION 'SAVE_TEXT'
    EXPORTING
      CLIENT          = SY-MANDT
      HEADER          = ED_HEADER
      SAVEMODE_DIRECT = 'X'
    TABLES
      LINES           = ED_LINES
    EXCEPTIONS
      ID              = 1
      LANGUAGE        = 2
      NAME            = 3
      OBJECT          = 4
      OTHERS          = 5.
IF SY-SUBRC <> 0.
    CASE SY-SUBRC.
      WHEN '5'.
        MESSAGE E002(SY) WITH 'IPL' .
      WHEN '1'.
        MESSAGE E002(SY) WITH 'IPL1'.
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9.2 Crashes w. Text Box tool

I've been having the darndest time recently. I used to be able to use the Text Box tool in PDFs to add text easily.
Now I can open documents and select the Text Box tool but as soon as I click on the document to create a new text box Acrobat crashes. Hard.
When I click into my document with the Text Box tool Acrobat pops up a window that says, "An internal error occurred." with an OK button. But when I click OK, the error message just refreshes. I can click a dozen times and it stays in this crashed, error message loop. Eventually I have to force quit.
I've tried to repair my Acrobat installation and check for new updates but nothing's worked. Does anyone have any advice or suggestions? Has this ever happened to you?
I've considered that there could some software incompatibility but I'm not sure what could be causing the problem. And suggestions would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks everybody!
-Matthew

I am having the same problem. Both with text boxes and text in the actual document. Do you think it is GoFileRoom related? I never made the connection but I wouldn't be surprised. It seems worse when different versions of Adobe are used. Some have ver 7 and other ver 8 but we are all using GFR.
Have you had any help?

How do you keep text box formatting data after saving and closing a PDF? (Acrobat XI)

I love that Acrobat XI has the feature "Edit Text & Images". It saves me and my company time when modifying PDFs for our clients. Though I am having some formatting woes...
When I insert a new text box into the document, I can span the entire text box from top to bottom of the page. I can type whatever I want in it and it makes it simple for editing later. Though, when I save the document, close it, and reopen it, all the text that was in one huge text box is broken out into multiple text boxes (per line of text). This makes it a pain to do any edits to the document because the text overlaps and does not wrap (different text boxes over one another). How can I stop this from happening? Is there a way to combine multiple text boxes maybe? What is the best solution to this issue? (running trial version of Acrobat XI on Win7 64-bit)

Why we have chosen not to use comments is due to the how jumbled they become on a page. We are basically going back and putting detailed annotations/footnotes (with numbered markers) to identify what portion of the page the functionality lives/exist. Comments also sometimes close so you cannot find them very easily...
I have just figured out with this form text field solution, I can't use underlined text...sigh...
Update: Figured out the underlined text, CTRL+I

Adobe Acrobat Pro text box not printing and is hidden under box highlight.

Adobe Acrobat Pro 10.1.13. I am completing a form with text box throughout the document. I can no get the text box to printing and the text is hidden under box highlight. I have tried printing with the print feature 'Comments & Forms/ Document and Markups' with no luck.

It's doing that because you have field highlighting enabled. YOu can either turn it off or make the field read-only (if it's only used for display and not entry).

Problems with text box borders, tabbing and saving doc in Acrobat Pro 7.1.0

When I view my form document in Acrobat Reader, there is a red border around several text boxes
in which I've selected 'NO border'
Also, I've selected 'column order' for tabbing, but tabs continue to function in order in which I inserted form item (text box, check box or radial button). Since I didn't insert these consecutively, tabs no jump all around the form instead of proceeding in order from top to bottm and left to right.
I've checked for Mac Acrobat Pro updates and see that there are three - 7.1.1, 7.1.3, and 7.1.4, and am downloading them for install.
Do any of the updates fix these problems? Or how can it be fixed?
On opening document in Reader, I also get a message informing that document cannot be saved with changes and must be printed, even though I've created it with fillable forms.
Is there some setting for allowing document to be saved?
I want to be able to have recipient be able to download form, fill it out, save changes, attach to email and return it to me.

This has been a problem since version 8 on the mac. Acrobat 7 on the mac worked fine with the right side trim but not on the PC.
We are still having this problem with Acrobat 9.4.0 on the Mac & PC.
This has now been an issue for 2 versions of Acrobat Pro.(8 & 9)
Being in Pre Press and having to constantly set the trim for jobs, this is now taking up too much time and costing money.
Please fix this Adobe.
and on another note. how hard would it be to display the trim (if set) next to where the page size is?
If the trim is set it should display it! why should we have to go to document/crop pages>trim.
Im in a busy Pre Press Dept and the amount of times you have to check a trim size is stupid.
I always set prefs to display crop / trim / and bleed boxes and this helps but it should display it if its set.
Thanks
Hope this is resolved soon.

Acrobat XI Pro: Text boxes empty after combining PDF files

I have a user when she combines a few documents only one document is missing some text in text boxes that were showing up before. Here is a screen shot of the two files:
The document on the left is what occurs after the files have been combined, the document on the right is the original document. I spoke with tech support, they told me to take the original pdf document then print it to the adobe pdf printer and select the option to print it as an image. Then when we combined the files it was working fine. I also took the original Excel 2010 document that the right document in the image came from, printed that to the Adobe PDF printer and made sure it printed it as an image. Then after combining them it worked once more. My problem is the user didn't have to print the excel doc to an image, she would just have to click on the Acrobat tab in Excel and tell it to create a pdf doc. So is there a setting I'm missing?

I tried uninstalled Acrobat XI and installed Acrobat X but the problem still exists. I spoke with my user some more and found that if she leaves out one of the documents from the combining process this issue does not occur. So either this is a font incompatibility or that document that was left out is corrupt. Any thoughts?

Adobe Acrobat 9 Standard Text Box Enter Space is Removed -- Help

Got a new computer at work with Adobe Acrobat 9 Standard and it is taking some getting use to (came from Acrobat 7 Professional).
I need some help with the text box tool. When I create a text box and use the enter key and click out of the text box the space is removed where I hit enter. I googled around and if I use cntrl and then hit enter the space will stay there. How do I get around this so I do not have to hold cntrl everytime. Plus if I go back into that text box and add another space it removes the space from before so I would have to add the spaces in again. I hope this is a setting I have messed up. It is quite annoying and hopefully someone can help me out.
I am on Windows 7 Professional if it matters.

I've reported this as a bug a number of times since Acrobat 9 was released and so far they have refused to fix it in Acrobat 9/10/11. I had never heard of the Ctrl+Enter workaround, so thanks for that.

Adobe Acrobat 9 Pro - editing font properties in a text box

When I insert a text box on an existing PDF, initially Acrobat usually allows me to edit the font properties. Sometimes it does not. Once I type in the text box, the font properties toolbar becomes locked (i.e., "grayed out") so I can't change font type, size, color justification and other font properties. If I save the file, close it and then re-open I can edit then the font, at least for a while. If I have other PDF files open too I usually have to close those other windows. After some time the font properties again become locked.
Obviously it is incredibly inconvenient to have to close a program and all open files then re-open those files just to change something like the color of a font. I called Adobe tech support and they told me the fix was to buy Acrobat X. I don't want to spend more money, I just want the product I already paid for to work properly.
Is there a way for this bug in the software to be corrected?

** SOLVED FOR ME **
Acrobat 9.0 and 9.1 Standard
No v9 properties toolbar access except in last document opened
I don't know if this applies to you but I had a similar problem with documents on our network.
It turns out the documents were being saved as PDF/A or PDF/X format.
I had the users open up Adobe. Go to Edit>Preferences Then go to the Documents section and find the "Open in PDF/A" section. I had them select "Never" and then the toolbars were no longer greyed out.

Acrobat 9.2.0 Update Breaks Text Box Tool, Possibly Introduces a New Security Flaw.

Anyone have any ideas for this one?
Once we upgraded to version 9.2.0 (This is a major security release that fixes a Javascript security flaw) our text box tool no longer works the way we want it and crashes the program.
Try this:
1. Open any PDF document on a Windows XP SP3 computer with Adobe Acrobat 9.2.0.
2. Add the 'Text Box Tool' to the toolbar by right-clicking the toolbar and selecting 'MoreTools' then placing a checkbox next to the 'Text Box Tool'.
3. Click the 'Text Box Tool' on the toolbar and draw a new textbox anywhere on the PDF document.
4. Click out of the textbox to cancel typing mode, then single click back on the textbox that you just created.
5. Right-click the textbox that you created and select 'Properties..."
6. Under the 'Appearance' tab,
a. Select Style: No Border
b. Select Fill Color: No Color
c. Check the box 'Make Properties Default'
d. Click OK.
7. Click the Text Box Tool again, and draw another textbox (Since there is no border you will not see it but you will still be drawing a textbox).
8. Let go of the mouse when you are done drawing your textbox rectangle and the program will crash at this point.
Results:
1. "An internal error occurred." dialog box is displayed.
2. After clicking ok the following "Microsoft Visual C++ Runtime Library" dialog box is displayed:
"Runtime Error!
Program: C:\Program Files\Adobe\Acrobat 9.0\Acrobat\Acrobat.exe
R6025
- pure virtual function call
3. After clicking ok another dialog box is displayed:
Error signature
AppName: acrobat.exe AppVer: 9.2.0.124 ModName: acrobat.dll Offset: 000509dd
4. The same error has occurred on all five computers that we tested the new version on.
Expected results: A new textbox is created and you may start typing in text (This was the behavior in version 9.1.3).
Additional Information
At times, we need to add information to PDF files (i.e missing dates, etc). We have always used the Text Box Tool to do this with no border, and with no fill color as this is the EASIEST and FASTEST way to add information to PDF files in a precise manner. We want the fill color to be transparent so that we can fit text in between and exactly on lines easier, and so that there is not a solid background box behind the text. We want no border because a border around text that needs to go on a line looks stupid. Up until version 9.2 this procedure worked fine. Now, the program will crash. Perhaps this even adds another security vulnerability if the crash could be exploited. We want to maintain security by patching Adobe to address the JavaScript vulnerability that was addressed in version 9.2.0, however, we are not able to update our users as the new version breaks the fundamental purpose that we use Adobe Acrobat for. We are stuck with the vulnerable version 9.1.3 until this problem is addressed. Disabling JavaScript is not an option either, as we use a Java plug-in on a daily basis.
Any thoughts would be great, I have attached screenshots of the errors.

The question still is not answered.
The problem continues in Acrobat 8.1.7 for Windows, even after updating toAcrobat 8.2.0. ( I can't comment on whether recent updates to Acrobat 9 fix the problem in Acrobat 9.)
The internal error after text insertion problem occurs even with PDF documents created in Acrobat 8, i.e., not only old versions of PDF files. We have the text box insertion icon in the toolbar, and the properties set to "no color" for the box and "0" width for the text box lines, as other commentators have noted.
The problem did not exist when Acrobat 8 Pro was installed, it was introduced by one of the updaters.
The main reason we use Acrobat, rather than much cheaper PDF-creation software, is to annotate PDF files (including inputting data into spaces in standard forms).
So justify the high price of Acrobat and fix the problem please, Adobe !

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