Cannot change font, size or anything for typewriter tool

I had same problem recently with two PDFs using Acrobat Professional Ver. 8.3.0, Win 7 32-bit.

The following worked for me when many of the other suggestions failed:

From inside Acrobat, print the document to a new pdf (File > Print... > select "Adobe PDF").  Then open the newly printed PDF in Acrobat. Typewiter & font resizing now work fine on the printed file and the document contents appears no different than the originals as far as I can tell.

This approach may be equivalent to extracting all pages to a new document, as rodh147 described above.  I did not try extracting on these files.

I finally figured it out!!!!  I wanted to change my font color on the Typewriter Tool.  The way I did it was....

• Clicked on the box where I placed text with the typewriter tool
• right clicked
• clicked on Show Comments List (you can also do this from the menu bar under Comments)
  
• I copied  my typewritter comment from the list; (at the bottom of the document)
• pasted  my typewritter comment from the list Into another program such as MS Word or even this commenting box, 
  
• changed the font color/size,
• then copy and pasted back into my typewriter comment in the Comments List (at the bottom of the document)
  

then..........

• I right clicked on the icon of the typewriter( that is on the left of the comment )
  
• selected properties
• under the General Tab
• clicked in the box next to Make Properties Default and clicked OK.

then ...........

• Voila!!!! the next time I used my Typewriter Tool the font was the same as my typewriter comment in the Comments List that I copied over from my word document.  Yay!!!!!  I have been trying to do this for a while...... I had changed the color of the text to red by mistake somehow and had the hardest time trying to figure out how to change it back to black.

Message was edited by: AbleMinded

Problem Solved:

Do not use the Typwriter Tool.  Use the Text Box Tool to add text.  After you add text, highlight the text and press Control E.  You can then change font, size, color etc.

I was fighting with this issue for a long time.  Acrobat Pro 9.4.4/Win Pro 7....

There also seems to be a issue with the operating security setting for the file.  I had some files someone else gave me from a Vista system and since the his User-ID was different then mine the security settings change in the transfer.

In Explorer, right-click on the file, select Properties, then select the Security Tab, Select the User-ID for your login, and make sure that the User-ID that you are using has "Full control" of the file.  If it doesn't, hit the "Edit" button, and again select you're User-ID, and in the lower panel select the "Full control" check box under the "Allow" heading.  This has worked for me when the typwriter fonts/size/color are grayed-out.

Some of the other suggestions may also help, i.e., Edit/Preferences/Documents/View documents in PDF/A mode: Never, etc.

try this -  turn on anything you want to use and open a new pdf.

So in this case:

Tools > Customize Toolbars > now scroll to bottom and check the Typewriter Toolbar box

Next select:

File > Create PDF > From Blank Page

All functions and more should now work, including font size, style, indent, etc.

Choose the options in the typewriter toolbar and change as you wish.

Doing this has helped me in enabling many of Acrobat functions that were frustrating me.

For this process (text resize), you can close the new blank document and work with only yours open.

Keeping the new blank one open hasn't caused me a problem; it just depends on what I need to do.

Given the pricing structure Adobe has in place, allowing a bug like this to go uncorrected for FOUR YEARS is irresponsible.  Adobe, wake up!!!

The fix I have found to work best is; Document -  Extract Pages...

Extract the entire document to a new file then when you use the Typewriter, size and line spacings become available.

Rod.

ctrl+e opens the editor, if it doesn't work at

first then highlight the text and press ctrl+e

Try this:

1) Go to Edit

2) select preferences (at bottom)

3) the go to general

4) then pick "use single key accelerators"

5) after all that (I am not sure if its required) you would highlight the text you want to change and press CTRL + e and you should get the text box properties tool bar to pop up (upper right corner of toolbar) and allow you to change the font.