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BruceGFK
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June 29, 2017
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"Add Text" Default Font

  • June 29, 2017
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Adobe Acrobat Pro XI v 11.0.0 > "Tools" button > "Content Editing" tab > "Add Text" option > how is the font style and color set as default here?

(Please list specific steps w/ locations & labels, please)

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Karl Heinz Kremer
Karl Heinz Kremer
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June 30, 2017

You cannot do that in Acrobat XI, this feature was introduced in Acrobat DC.

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BruceGFKAuthor
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June 30, 2017

Are you sure? I've been able to do that since using Adobe Acrobat 9 Pro Extended... weren't DC and XI released well after that?

Karl Heinz Kremer
Karl Heinz Kremer
Community Expert
June 30, 2017

They both do and thus accomplish the same goal.


You can still use the "typewriter" tool, but it now has a new name: Fill&Sign>Add Text (Acrobat XI) or Comment>Add text comment (Acrobat XI and DC)

Both tools seem to accomplish the same goal, but only on a very high level. How things are implemented in Acrobat and in the PDF file is completely different. And the two also behave completely different. The most obvious one is that you cannot be sure that your typewriter/text annotation information will actually be printed - that depends on the settings the user who actually prints the document makes on the print dialog: When you don't select "Document & Markup", the text you've added will not be printed (nor will any other annotations you've added), whereas "real" PDF text (static PDF content vs. the dynamic content that you add via the comment/annotation feature), will always be printed.

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