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Moving text boxes with arrow keys covers text in white space

New Here ,
Sep 09, 2025 Sep 09, 2025

Hello! First time posting. When editing a PDF, I often need to adjust the placement of text boxes to allow for ample spacing between subject areas. However, whenever I attempt to move both groups of text boxes or singular text boxes up or down, the text begins to become layered with white space from the background and cannot be read fully, or becomes obscured entirely. At first, I thought it was a display error, and i attempted to save the file with the obscured text and preview it. When I did this, the text was indeed still fully covered. I work with documents only utilizing text, so there's no possible image/shape layers that could be interfering.

 

This has become quite frustrating, and I'd like to figure out if there's any fix for this. Thanks in advance!

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Edit and convert PDFs , General troubleshooting , PDF , Standards and accessibility
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Sep 12, 2025 Sep 12, 2025

Hi, 

 

Can I check: Does this happen anywhere on the page or just near the edges of the page?

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New Here ,
Sep 12, 2025 Sep 12, 2025
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Hey, thanks for replying! It's been primarily in the middle body area of the page. I've occasionally found that it's being caused in instances where auto-generated text boxes (with no contents) layer over the primary text, but this is not always the case.

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