How do I copy and paste a drawing line mutiple times?

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December 6, 2018
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I'm using Acrobat 11.0 and have a generated PDF with lots of rows of data. I'm trying to draw a line between every 3rd row to be able easily follow that line from the 1st column across the page horizontally to the last column of that row (like a dot leader). I would like to either:

1) draw multiple lines at one time (say 15) and later move them to the appropriate places on my pdf (between every 3 rows), or

2) draw one line, select it, and copy it multiple times (say 15). Then, move the "additional" (copied) lines to the appropriate places on my pdf.

Currently, using Comment--Drawing Markups--select the line, I can create one line where my cursor is. Then, I can copy and paste it, but only to the middle of the page. I am unable to MOVE the one in the middle of the page anywhere other than where it was pasted in that spot right at the middle of the page.

[I'm trying to speed up the process of creating multiple lines. It may not seem like much work to create 15 "new" lines, but I often have 5-8 pages of this, and it's driving me crazy it doesn't seem to allow this.}

Any ideas or suggestions?

CW

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Brainiac

It sounds an unbelievable amount of work to do this to a PDF. PDF editing is so not up to this. You really need to find another way to do this.

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chrisg6682489Author

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Thank you DocGeek and Try67. I looked, and the Locked box is already unchecked. Darn. Maybe it can't be moved or copied. I noticed that when selecting the line, there is no Cut or Copy on the right click context menu. (I've been using the Edit menu on the top toolbar.)

Document Geek

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What you are trying to do is more along the lines of page layout. It would be an easy task in InDesign or Illustrator, but not so much in Acrobat. I'm sure someone can script it for you if it's something you need on a regular basis.

But you say you've created a line and it won't let you move it? That's strange. That's not the normal behavior. I know that text markups cannot be moved, but lines made using the drawing tools should be movable.

try67

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