Cannot change font, size or anything for typewriter tool

I use Acrobat 9 Pro. What I have found is that you can hit the typewriter tab and then before you try to djust the font, place the cursor where you want to type and right click. For me this causes the font tab to light up and you canchnge the size, font, etc. I do not know if it will work for you but it does for me.

I had the same problem exactly. I wanted to add numbers to documents scanned and sent to me to use as exhibits and for references in legal briefs. Sometimes the typewriter font/font size tab would work, sometimes it was grayed out. I ran the OCR Text Recognition function in the Documents menu and saved the document and closed it. When I opened it back up I could use the font/font size option.

A simple solution for me was to:

1.  Create new PDF - "from blank page" (under File • Create PDF • From Blank Page)

2.  Once the new blank PDF page opened, I selected the Type Writer tool function, place cursor on the new page, and was then able to change font/size/etc.

3.  Re-opened my other PDFs and the new font appeared when I selected the Type Writer tool.

I tried all the solutions here without success.  I finally was able to fix it by changing the file properties.  Go to File->Properties to bring up the document properties, then click on the "Advanced" tab.  Under "Trapped" I changed "Unknown" to "No."

I have no idea what this did, but now I can use the arrows to resize my text and line spacing, the way I always do!

All.  I had this problem as well and tried ALL the solutions on this page.  None of them worked.  What did finally do the trick was running OCR on the document.  Once I did that, the font formatting tools became available.

Changing the font size is possible in Adobe Pro 8, but it depends on how you are adding text to the document. I generally use the text box to add text to most documents and the only way to change the font is to activate the "Properties Toolbar". Go to View >> Toolbars >> Properties Bar and select this feature.

Once it is activated you can dock the tool bar with the rest of them. after enabling the properties bar when you double click in a text box you will be able to chang the font and font size. Not sure why this is not explained in help, but this is the only way to edit fonts in text boxes.

Please refer to my #68 & #71.  Much easier than most of the other posts.

I saw a lot of interesting discussion here but was the original post fully answered?

What I am seeing - in Acrobat Pro X, v 10.1.1, is that the Typewriter Tool is difficult to invoke and it does not allow me to insert text with all the font sizes I have available.

PDF's are great but hey are not always 100% perfect for what I need to do.  If I open a pdf (I recieve these several times a day) that was created and sent to me and I want to add a text block to the top of the first page I can do that but Times New Roman will only go up to 24 point.  What do I need to do to get it beyond 24 ... to 72?

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For formatting changes to text in added boxes, comments, etc., the Typewriter tool is of no use.  Use the Properties pop-up box.  This pop-up seems to be available only through the key combination Ctrl-e (not case-sensitive).  In Acrobat X, this box cannot be docked at the side (a la page thumbnail icon) or remain in the toolbar.

The pop-up's available functions and title are context-sensitive:

For a text box, the title is "Text Box Properies".  You can change some of the box's properties (fill color, line color/width, etc.) that are also available through right-clicking.  Similar actions/options are available for added pencil marks, etc.

For the text within a text box (or other annotations), the pop-up's title is "Text Box Text Properties".  You can change centering, bolding, fonts, size, etc.

I'm not sure what the solution is, but I have some information that might help shine some light on this issue (which has also become troublesome for me). In doing some investigation in what caused this issue to occur, and how to resolve it, I found that the "Typewriter Tool" and the Commenting & Markup's "Text Box Tool" appear to be very closely related...

When this problem appeared for me, and I could no longer edit the font for my Typewriter entries, I noticed that in the "Comment View" pane these entries no longer had a "typewriter" icon next to them but instead had a "text box" icon next to them; as follows (I created a new Typewriter entry so you could see the comparison):

I also noticed that there was a difference in the Properties boxes when you double-clicked on each item, but now seeing that this may be irrelevant, I have decided not to include the 6 screen shots showing their differences.

In trying to figure out what would create a "text box" icon instead of a "typewriter" icon in the "Comment View" pane, I found that it was the Commenting & Markup's "Text Box Tool" (as pictured below) that would do just that when using it to add text to a PDF.

I have yet to find a way to convert a Commenting & Markup's Text Box (back) to a Typewriter Tool Text Box via the Comment View pane, or any other means, other than doing it manually.

Hopefully this information will help someone else solve this riddle...

Hopefully Adobe Support may shine some light on this issue...but they seem to be a bit absent from these forums...