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fayel5918948
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November 23, 2018
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Text keeps jumping and cannot edit

  • November 23, 2018
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I am trying to edit text in a text box in Adobe Acrobat Pro DC.

I can highlight the text but to do so my cursor must be a few lines above the text I want to select.

When I do make any changes the text jumps in the box and I cannot preposition it.

All I want to do it delete one line of text and save the new document.

Any help would be great

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barbara_a7746676
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barbara_a7746676Community Expert
Community Expert
November 23, 2018

It might be because the text has a baseline shift that has moved the text up from its normal baseline, or it could be superscript text, or it could be a monitor resolution issue, it could even be duplicated text. Hard to say without seeing the PDF file.

When trying to re-position the text, do you see a bounding box when you select the text box, like this?

Dov Isaacs
Dov Isaacs
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November 23, 2018

This really isn't a topic associated with Type & Typography but rather of text editing in Acrobat. Moving this thread to the Acrobat Editing & Exporting PDFs forum.

          - Dov

- Dov Isaacs, former Adobe Principal Scientist (April 30, 1990 - May 30, 2021)
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