Typewriter properties in Acrobat 9.0

Question

Is there a way to change the (default) properties of typewriter?  Also, is there a way to change the font size just once in a document?  Everytime I change to a new block of text, the text size goes back to the original size.
Thanks,
Bryant

Answer 1

I'm using Acrobat 9 Standard on a PC, but one thing I've noticed is that there is a problem with the Typewriter toolbar working when opening up additional .PDF documents while the first document is still open - you can click on the Typewriter tool in those subsequent documents, but you cannot change the font or color of the text.  You have to look at the first .PDF document you opened to see those controls, which, amazingly, changes the size and color of the other document's Typewriter text.  Go figure.
If you have closed that first .PDF document already and this subsequent document is still open, you won't be able to access the Typewriter toolbar at all (all the options will be greyed out except the turning on and off the Typewriter itself).  You will have to close all the open .PDF documents (save them first, if applicable), then reopen the document you want to use Typewriter in.  It should work fine at that time.
It appears the fully functioning Typewriter toolbar only works in the "first" file opened.  Any overlapping files opened (while the first one is still open) are screwed up.  Just make sure to close each .PDF as it is used, and then each new .PDF you open will have a fully-functioning Typewriter toolbar.  Either that, or be sure to keep the first ,PDF open at all times, and if you have subsequent files you open and close, just keep referring to the toolbar in the first .PDF to make the changes in these other files.
This is especially cumbersome in that, as a digital office, I am always printing to Adobe instead of to a physical printer.  This glitch is annoying, but less so now that I know how to work around it.
Hope this helps!