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Editing over multiple pages

Forum|Forum|3 years ago
August 4, 2022
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I have been trying to find a away to edit text over multiple pages in a PDF document.

Specifically i need to change the font size and line spacing throughout the entire document.

It is a 220pg PDF and I am unable to select all the text boxes in the file.

I have tried select all (Ctrl-A) and it only selects the text on the current page.

Obviously it is not feasible to individually edit the text on every page.

I even downloaded an alternative PDF handler (PDF element) and ran into the same issue.

I am using Adobe Acorbat DC for Windows.

Any ideas?

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try67

Community Expert

Not possible.

C

Cosmic RocketAuthor

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Perhaps with a script or an action?

Or perhaps other users know of alternative software / website I could explore.

try67

Community Expert

> Perhaps with a script or an action?

- No.

> Or perhaps other users know of alternative software / website I could explore.

- Maybe, but not with Acrobat.

Document Geek

Community Expert

Acrobat is not a word processor. You need to go back and make those changes in the original program where the document originated.

More on that here: Musings on the topic: "Should I Edit this PDF?"

C

Cosmic RocketAuthor

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Unforunately that is not an option. It is a data sheet that was downloaded from a website. So there is no "original" as such.

For whatever reason some of the fields (text boxes) are overalapping which means that there is all sorts of bugs when I export it to other formats (doc/xls). I have experimented with a single pade and if i reduce the font size and standardise the line spacing then it exports in the correctly.

So, in short, I need to do this formatting to the PDF.

gary_sc

Community Expert

I have had "acceptable" results when exporting to a txt document (not rtf) when the text came out with issues in Word.

It does mean you have to reformat everything at that point, but at least you get the text.

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