Questions

I'm working with the "new" Acrobat for the first time and can't figure out how to add/edit text in documents without changing the original content.  I have to fill out lien waiver and pay application forms provided to me and I simply need to add text (or edit, if I "saved as" to do the next month's document) typewriter style, just filling in the blanks without changing anything else (although these are not fillable forms; sometimes scans, sometimes just a plain PDF converted from whatever program our customers used to create the doc).  But the text I add is moving and changing the formatting and pushing things in the original form out of place.  I was able to do this fine with the older Acrobat versions but not the new.

Scenario: I'm building a form to track production over the week.  A series of text fields for different widgets, with odd numbers (Widget A = Text1, WidgetB = Text3, Widget C = Text5).  I have a series of buttons to increment the text field up and down, numbered sequentially (Button1, Button2, Button3, Button4, Button5, Button6).  In the end i'm going to have over 125 text fields, and 250 buttons.  I wrote a for loop that with the click of the "goButton" will write the script to all of those buttons for me.  Right now I only have 3 text fields and 6 buttons until proof of concept, before I make this gigantic pdf. Problem: The button and the script work perfectly as intended, however they do not persist after a save and a close.  I would have to click the "goButton" every time I open it to insert the script into the buttons again.  My first instinct is that the individual buttons only have a function in their javascript and not the actual script.&

I have a very big document that contains portions of repeated text on different pages. If I redact two lines on Page 2, I want Adobe to find any other sections of the document where those two lines also appear and mark them for redaction too. Is this possible? There are too many redactions to use the import function. I'd appreciate any other ideas. Thankyou

I have a pdf document that I have opened in acrobat. The pdf document is four individual pages on one download. I know that by clicking on "all tools" I have the menue of options. If I click on "organize pages" I then have a page with all four pages seperate on the screen. If one clicks on "spit into multiple files" the pages are seperated. Then nothing. How do I get each individual page on my laptop so I am able to put them in a message. I need to upload them seperately, not as one item. What do I do? Thank you

When I am commenting a PDF in Acrobat Pro, why can I not select text with the Strikethrough Text Comment Tool if the text is also a hyperlink? When I attempt to use the comment tool, the first click activates the hyperlink and takes me somewhere else. What is the work-around?

I scanned images and created a PDF, they are all slightly different sizes. How do I force Acrobat to use a standard page background, such as 8.5x11 ofr every page and just have the one image appear on the page? ThanksHenry

Is there a custom validation script for a Canadian Postal Code (form was created in Acrobat XI)?  Thanks much.

I have a Text field named "MyField". I'd like to add a Custom Calculation Script to it. Every time I select the edit, enter the code, and then click OK, it does not save the code and then reselects the default "Value is not calculated" option. It will even happen in fields that I have already saved previously and that did once work. When returning to them sometimes, I will see the selection change from "Customer Calculation Script" to "Value is not calculated" as soon as I activate that Calculate tab. Does anyone have any idea what causes this and/or how to avoid/correct it. I have tried searching all over Google and can't seem to find anyone else that has brought up this issue.

Hi,I have a PDF document that I've created which has a large number of text and check boxes on what will start out as a single page.My ultimate aim is to be able to click a button and have the same page spawned, but with all the text boxes cleared of any text, and all the checkboxes unclicked. It should not affect the other page(s).I have tried:**Attempt 1**Creating a template page with cleared textboxes / checkboxes. I could then add the following Javascript to a 'new page' object, before then hiding the template page so it was always blank:var newPage = this.spawnPageFromTemplate({cTemplate: this.getNthTemplate(0),bRename: true,bOverlay: false});For some reason this doesn't create all the textboxes on the new page, so I had to abandon this approach.**Attempt 2**Keeping the first page as the template page and keeping it unhidden.When using the same code above, this now ensures that all text boxes are created for some reason.However, when the user populates the first page and then spaw

Is there a way to create an action button for an object that allows the user to click and drag the object as many times as they like? For example, if I put in an image of an apple, can I have the user click on it and it will make other apples that the user can then put anywhere on the doc, does that make sense? Thanks!

Hello,We would like to disable the adobe right mouse click context menu for our employees that don't have rights to use the Adobe Acrobat pro XI software. With Active Directory we can control the users in GROUPS who can see and use the Adobe acrobat pro XI software, but as standard all users see the adobe acrobat pro right click context menu which is used to convert/combine to PDF.We can disable the whole adobe context menu by editing or removing the root registry key (see under) but then the users with rights for adobe pro XI can't use it anymore. Normally enabling/disabling registry keys isn't a problem when it's a current user key, but the context menu is found in the ROOT class.[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CLSID\{A6595CD1-BF77-430A-A452-18696685F7C7}\InprocServer32]@="C:\\Program Files (x86)\\Adobe\\Acrobat 11.0\\Acrobat Elements\\ContextMenuShim64.dll""ThreadingModel"="Apartment"Can somebody help us how we can manage the right click context menu using Active Directory user Groups?If there a

I've formatted all of these fields the same, trying to center the numbers, why are some of them going to the side?

I am wondering if there is a way that I can export my toolbar/etc. settings from Adobe Acrobat on one computer, and import them into another. I am using Adobe Acrobat 9 Standard (old, I know).

Where is the Prepare Form on Acrobat.adobe.com?  I've signed in on the web to my account but I cannot find the Prepare Form Tool. 

In Adobe Acrobat, I've created a template with multiple pre-fill fields. However, I don't see the ability to assigned a signature field to myself. I need to sign the document before sending it to my manager for approval. Is there a workaround or something that I'm missing?  

Hi.Im having trouble attaching a PDF file to my Yahoo email. Im using a Lenovo PC, Windows 7. When I attach the file, it won't attach. The attachment appears with a red exclamation mark on it, as shown in the screenshot below.The attachment is not too big to attach.  I can send it via the MyMail app with my yahoo email. Solution?  

So you want to cancel your monthly subscription? Of course you can! But you'll lose services immediately that you've already paid for!! Adobe know that if they force you to have to remember to cancel the day before renewal or whatever, then you're more likely to forget and that means more LOVELY REVENUE for them! It's just  a self-centred dark pattern scam, that's all it is. Well done Adobe - your principles have been noted!

A recent Adobe update seems to have stopped Auto-OCR when clicking on the "Edit" tool with a scanned document open. In the past, when opening a scanned document and selecting the "Edit" tool, the document would auto-OCR and re-orient. Since the update, the auto-OCR no longer occurs, though it does work with the "Scan and OCR" tool > "Recognize Text".  The "Scanned Documents" section of Edit Settings is grayed-out when a document is not open. When opening a scanned document (this has ocurred across multiple different scanned documents), the "Scanned Documents" portion of the panel is missing. This change isn't the end of the world, but it does add time to every scanned document, which adds up over time when dealing with large quantities of scanned documents.  Ran Adobe Updates today (3/25/25) Are there any Settings changes I can make to return the Auto-OCR functionality?  

Currently AI generative feature is allowing only 600 pages maximum. Can you please increase the limit. 

Users who use Adobe Sign can send a form to be signed but they cannot cancel it, and when a user signs it, it still says they haven't signed it. Any suggestions how to fix that?

Hello All,Up until a month or two ago when users (Reader DC and Adobe Pro XI) opened a PDF email attachments and selected "Save As," Adobe would open the last location it saved documents to.  Now it's opening to:  C:\Users\<username>\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Windows\Temporary Internet Files\Content.Outlook\XXXXXXX.  Outlook 2013 is doing what it has always done, open the attachment from the temporary location it stores the file, so it has to be some change in Adobe.  Now user's have to constantly go Windows Recent Places and locate the folder. They didn't have to do this before.For example if they view an email and open PDF0001 and save it to X:\CustServ\2017\07-10, after closing that document, going to the next email to open the PDFzyx then do Save As it would open the same folder, X:\CustServ\2017\07-10.  That's not happening now, it default to the Content.Outlook\XXXXXXX folder.I've tried unchecking Preferences > General > Show online storage when

How do I download Adobe Acrobat Professional 8.1? I lost it when I reset my Windows 10 laptop.

Hello, it is possible to have three diferent fields for month, day & year and create a full date from there in another field?We have a lot of people that enter always day as a month and I'm trying to avoid mistake and reprocesses.

I am attempting to remediate a PDF for accessibility, but am running into myriad issues. One that I cannot wrap my head around is that I am running into a tagged content element failure for content that does not even exist. I attempting to show the content in the content panel and it is not there. See below. One of the content element failures is highlighted in blue. All failures look as such; a content failure where no content exists. Is there a remedy to this problem? I have recreated the PDF from a Word doc and still run into the same issue. I would just delete these elements but since they don't even exist...Thank you for any help.

Everytime I save an email to PDF it saves like the attatched screenshot and i don't know how to fix it. Please advise, Thank you!