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ihatyuosmae
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October 23, 2017
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How do I change the color/font of text within a text box?

  • October 23, 2017
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Our office just upgraded from the old version of Acrobat to Acrobat Reader DC.  It is very similar, but I am having one issue with the "Fill & Sign" option.

In the old version, I would click "fill & sign", add a text box to my document, and a text toolbar would appear with options for changing text size, color, and font.  With the new Reader DC version, when following these same steps to create a text box, the toolbar that appears is very unhelpful, and only has the option to change text size by one increment at a time.

I am mostly concerned with the color change, as I use white text very often when editing PDFs, though I would like to know how to change the font as well.  Is there any way to change the color/font of text in a text box, or have they removed this feature? 

Thank you very much for your help (:

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Correct answer Bernd Alheit

In Adobe Acrobat DC use Tools > Prepare Form and create the form text field.

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Bernd Alheit
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Bernd AlheitCommunity Expert
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October 23, 2017

This is not possible with "Fill & Sign". In the past it was also not possible.

Create a form text field with the option "Allow Rich Text Formatting".

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ihatyuosmaeAuthor
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October 23, 2017

How do you allow that option?  The only option for a text box I see is the text size by single increments. 

Bernd Alheit
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Bernd AlheitCommunity ExpertCorrect answer
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October 23, 2017

In Adobe Acrobat DC use Tools > Prepare Form and create the form text field.

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