Does Acrobat XI paste-in-place?

Hello, all!

I am excited to inform you that we may be close to having an actual fix implemented in Acrobat! While not actually a "paste-in-place" option, once you have pasted, you could—IF the following feature request is implemented—tell Acrobat EXACTLY where you want the resulting pasted objects to "go."

If you haven't already, please vote for this idea at the following Feature Request page:

http://tinyurl.com/PrecisePlacementOfObjects.

The more votes, the more likely Adobe is to spend the time and money necessary on this.

Something I think a lot of users don't realize is that Acrobat is a *huge, complex* program, and making ANY change is a *mammoth* undertaking. It's not like you can just change a few lines of code and say "Voila!" When you make a change in even one line of code, you probably will have to make many changes in other lines of code so you don't "break" anything else in the program/application.

We, as users, must really make the case, through our votes and our comments—at the linked feature request page, in addition to all the other forum threads—for the need for these features, or they will NOT be implemented.

So please, cast your vote, and direct all interested parties to this page via this link:

http://tinyurl.com/PrecisePlacementOfObjects

Thanks so much!

Ssusoyev has the answer tried it and it works perfectly. Thanks ssusoyev    

In Acrobat DC I've tried everything to get a Paste In Place working but with no luck. The best I've found is to use the regular select tool, then hit Copy, move to the new document/page and then click Paste. The object will appear right and down from the original location. However if you use CMD + Arrow Up and then CMD + Arrow left you'll find you're back in the same place again.

You need to then recopy the item if you want to do another paste as the next time it'll past two jumps to the right and down.

What a stupid way to run things...

Come on Adobe, get it sorted!

James

Friends,

It turns out that Acrobat Pro X and XI do have a "paste-in-place" function, but it's not straightforward. (Other Adobe applications have a similar function, as noted below, much more readily accessible).

Acrobat:  Hold down SHIFT, then Mouse-Click on Edit, then continue to hold SHIFT and  Mouse-Click on Paste.

(This was driving me nuts, because I had dozens of tiny, coded check-boxes on one page of a form and needed to copy them to a separate, similar form. When I used the simple "Paste" command, the little boxes got strewn all over the page. I thought I was going to have to copy-and-paste each checkbox individually and align each one in just the right spot--a task that would have consumed the better part of an hour. But this keyboard-plus-mouse solution worked perfectly.)

In other Adobe applications:

InDesign:   The Edit menu has a choice called Paste in Place

Illustrator:  The Edit menu has a choice called Paste in Place

Photoshop:  The Edit menu has a choice called Paste Special, which in turn has the option to Paste in Place

Hope other uses find this helpful!

Steve in San Francisco

Can confirm that the Content Editing > "Edit Text & Images" can copy paste to the offset position.

However this tool does not allow you to select a form element to allow you to copy it.

The Interactive Object > "Select Object" tool copy pastes to the center of the page.

So as far as I can see paste in place for form elements is still broken.

The only way we have got around this is create a text field as big as the page covering everything else.

select all and copy. then paste. The result is centered then deselect all and then select the big 'placer' field and delete it.

A cludge of a work around but so far the only way in Acrobat X1 and below. on both Mac and windows.

Roll on acrobat X2

The new Edit Content and Images tool will paste in place by default. The legacy "select object" tool for working with links, buttons, form fields etc does not.