Locking Elements on Adobe Acrobat DC Pro

[Kaleb Spellman]

I am wondering if there is a way to lock elements in Adobe Acrobat DC Pro, so they can't be moved by accident, but still remain editable. 

[Bernd Alheit]

What elements want you lock?

[Kaleb Spellman]

Text Boxes and Pictures. So you can't move them but still edit them.

[try67 · Accepted solution]

Not possible.

[Bernd Alheit]

You can't edit pictures with Acrobat.

[Kaleb Spellman]

Hey, what I meant by that comment was keeping the pictures in the same place. Copy and Paste the page, then use the Replace Image tool. That's all. I know you can't edit photos in Acrobat. 

This document will be used within the company internally, and they don't use InDesign or such like me. When they edit the document, it's in Acrobat. However pictures can easily get moved out of place by accident, as well as the text. I guess sadly, there is no way to prevent this.

Thank you guys for your help. I appreciate it. 

[Bernd Alheit]

You can use form buttons for the images and form text fields for the text. In the security of the document allow form filling.

[Robert25221699migv]

This is ridiculous. There is currently no way to quickly edit a PDF with acrobat. I wish I could view PDFs in Illustrator the way I can in Acrobat, it's the only reasonable way to edit PDFs.

[runninghead_design]

Agreed.
So much Adobe kit has loose-ends and missing functionality.

This doesn't seem to be due to commercial imperatives -compartmentalising creative software to ensure users buy more apps.
Instead it seems more due to accumulated legacy issues, missed opportunities and the like.
Illustrator, as someone here once told me with a rather sippy attitude, is not a document creation app, it's a graphics app (despite the fact that it's got PDF export, dozens of typography functions, and document formatting features approaching InDesign! 😆).
I make all my PDF docs in Illustrator and I've found several work-arounds to transcribe them successfully into PDFs just as feature-laden and polished as anything made in InDesign or Acrobat.
I think it's time Adobe got it's act together and overhauled the whole CC stable.
I've been an Adobe user for 30 years and there are still unresolved problems with many CC apps that are almost that old.