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Max5151
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July 16, 2020
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Is there any tool as "Format Painter" in Adobe Acrobat Pro DC

  • July 16, 2020
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Hi. Is there any tool as "Format Painter" like the one in MS Office Word/Excel/Access or Autodesk-Autocad to copy/paste the properties of an object to other object in Adobe Acrobat Pro DC?

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    Zaximus
    Zaximus
    Known Participant
    October 31, 2024

    I agree that it is definitely something I expected to already be in the application. I am editing a PDF that someone else authored, and I simply wanted to replicate the text formatting they used elsewhwere in the document for the content that I am adding.

      try67
      Community Expert
      try67Community Expert
      Community Expert
      July 16, 2020

      No, but it might be possible using a script, depending on the kind of "object" you're referring to.

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      Bruce2737797552uc
      Participant
      December 13, 2022

      The absence of a Format Painter is exactly how a giant stumbles and nimbler competitors eat their lunch.

       

        Amal.
        Community Manager
        Amal.Community Manager
        Community Manager
        July 16, 2020

        Hi Max

         

        We are sorry for the trouble. As described, you are looking for a tool like 'Format Painter' in Adobe Acrobat Pro DC

         

        Would you mind sharing more details about the workflow you are trying to achieve?

         

        Sadly, the option for format painter is not available yet in Adobe Acrobat Pro DC. You may use the Adobe wish form https://www.adobe.com/products/wishform.html to submit your request with the engineering team.

         

        Regards

        Amal

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        Max5151Author
        Participant
        July 16, 2020

        Hi Amal,

        I went to Adobe wish and I found out someone has already raised this request - long time ago - but "DECLINED". I don't know what that means as there is no explanation has been shared.

         

        Adobe is the main and master provider of software/application for pdf work; but, they are falling behind competators with less (resist to) update/ improve/ innovate.

        The "Format Painter" is useful and save lots of time for simple commands of "Comments" tool like texts/ line/ Arrow/ Polygon/ Text Callout/... as it is an standard tool in the most of major softwares like MS office and Autodesk.

        We are using different settings of font/colour/ fill/ border/... so re-setting "default" each time is not solution. It is really iritating to do all format settings everytime as I wonder why till know there is not a tool to copy/paste the format of an object to other similar object.

          try67
          Community Expert
          try67Community Expert
          Community Expert
          July 16, 2020

          You can change the default appearance of the various comments, by right-clicking a comment that has the desired properties and select "Make Current Properties Default". This will only affect comments (of that type) that you create later on, though, it doesn't allow you to copy those properties to existing comments.

           

          If you're interested I could create for you a script that will do that, for a fee. You can contact me privately via [try6767 at gmail.com] to discuss it further.

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