Skip to main content
Known Participant
December 26, 2017
Question

Copied MS text to Acrobat X doesn't work.

  • December 26, 2017
  • 1 reply
  • 2053 views

Copied Microsoft Text to Adobe Acrobat X format- with the editing tools that are provided in this Program, was this copied text originally designed for Editing? (because this is much more difficult to do successfully vs. any PDF Original Text in it's Original format)! Any answers here?

This topic has been closed for replies.

1 reply

Abambo
Community Expert
Community Expert
December 26, 2017

Adobe PDF is initially not to be edited and editing the PDF is only a bad replacement for recreating the PDF from the source. However, editing features have greatly improved an Acrobat DC allows quite successfull editing sessions.

After pasting text into Acrobat, it is Acrobat text. There is no difference between original text and pasted text. editing features will be the same.

ABAMBO | Hard- and Software Engineer | Photographer
Known Participant
December 27, 2017

All's I can say is- most things come down to Trial & Error & with any topic.  On the Acrobat X Program with the Original PDF text- the editing was very simple & successful because I soon got a handle on the Instructions.  I believe from what you wrote earlier is that you have not had any direct experience into this.  It may just take a little more time vs. originally putting the text in Microsoft Word format then converting the entire MS Word file over,but it certainly does not hurt to learn new things either.

When editing the Copied Text over- the end-results of the Editing Tools were not the same as with the Original PDF Text so it could be that the Copied Text is not compatible with the Adobe Acrobat X Editing tools.  Incidentally, I did obtain difficult & poor results from the Copied text, so without any third party attempting to Edit any previous Copied & Pasted MS Word Text in Adobe Acrobat X format, one cannot offer any accurate opinion.  At least that is the way I see this issue.