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I am making an invoice, and to make it very easy to edit when I come back to it, I set up the text boxes on a column, with multiple new lines in between them, however when I save the PDF it splits the single text boxes into multiple text boxes, making it more difficult to edit them.
Before saving:
After Saving:
Is there some setting I can change to stop this from happening? I want the PDFs to be saved in the way that they were created.
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This is an inappropiate use of Acrobat and PDF. A PDF is not a word document. The content is not meant to be edited.
To solve this issue, use form fields where data needs to be entered.
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The correct way to do this is to add a text markup annotation, Not to edit the page content.
There are ways to automate this process. I've written tools that automatically adds numbers that have been circled and place a stamp or text box on the PDF next to the numbers.
For example:
https://www.pdfscripting.com/public/Paper-Tape-Calculator-Description.cfm