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Situation:
1. I added pictures to a document in Adobe Acrobat DC that I had previously edited.
2. Unbenounced to me adding those pictures scrambled the text of the other pages in the PDF.
3. I saved the PDF and now I can't get back to the unscrambled version. (1 full days work) š
Please advise how I can get to a previous version, temporary saved version or unscramble the document.
The following have been tried and didn't work:
Right click on file, properties, previous versions. None
Windows Restore. No previous version.
Thank you in advance. A copy of the file is available here.
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Some utilities in Acrobat don't have a history or Undo that you can revert to.
I don't have a solution for you, other than to go back to the original source document and re-export a new PDF from it.
Suggestion for the future:
Don't edit the original version of a PDF, always work on a copy of the original PDF. CYA.
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Thank you. Lesson learned. Painful lesson.
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Many people make the mistake of trying to do quite complex editing, or even creating documents from scratch, in Acrobat. Adobe's marketing makes it sound a good idea: IT ISN'T. The whole point of PDF is that you can make your documents in proper editing apps, and easily convert to PDF.
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What is a 'proper' editing app? Even when I export to WORD, edit there and then reintegrate, this scrambling happens!