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Jonathan25051084o8go
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June 28, 2022
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Bounding Boxes

  • June 28, 2022
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Hello Acrobat programmers,

 

My supplier sends me the electrical schematic of my new equipment in PDF format.  I usually edit them using Acrobat Pro DC to add a few wires to connect my existing equipments.

 

Now Acrobat Pro DC decided to create a big bounding boxe which makes me unable to move the text to align it with the wires.  I don't find the option to ungroup or unbind text lines. What should I do ?

 

Please help.

 

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There are no bounding boxes in a PDF. They are made, each time you edit, for your convenient. They are made by guesswork so if you put text close, then next time you will see only one bounding box. All of this emphasises that editing PDF is pretty much a desperate last resort, no matter how Adobe Marketing push it.

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Legend
June 29, 2022

There are no bounding boxes in a PDF. They are made, each time you edit, for your convenient. They are made by guesswork so if you put text close, then next time you will see only one bounding box. All of this emphasises that editing PDF is pretty much a desperate last resort, no matter how Adobe Marketing push it.

    Amal.
    Amal.
    Legend
    June 29, 2022

    Hi there

     

    Hope you are doing well and sorry to hear that.

     

    Would you mind sharing the version of the Acrobat DC you are using? To check the version go to Help > About Acrobat and make sure you have the recent version 22.1.20142 installed. Go to Help > Check for updates and reboot the computer once.

     

    Is this an issue with a particular PDF file or with all the PDFs? Please try with a different PDF file and check.

     

    You may also try to export the PDF to MS Word document and make the edits there and then recreate the PDF from the edited Word document and see if that works for you.

     

    Regards

    Amal

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    Jonathan25051084o8goAuthor
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    June 29, 2022

    Hello,

    I just updated to the new version of Adobe Acrobat and it does the same thing.  It create a big anoying Binding box which makes me unable to align me text properly with the graphics on my electrical drawings. 

    See the big box on the left side.  These should be individual lines.

    I see many people with the same issue with binding boxes.

     

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