Text box rotation in Acrobat

[christopherh78342952]

I have a portrait 8.5x11 PDF document.  I can add a "header" text box to the first page, and then copy the "header" text box from the first page to subsequent pages.  It retains its original orientation.  But I inserted a page from another portrait 8.5x11 PDF document into the first document, and when I copy the "header" text box onto that page, it rotates 90 degrees.  How do I rotate the text box on that page without rotating the entire page?

[Bernd Alheit]

You can change orientation of a form text field in the properties of the form field.

[christopherh78342952]

I am using Acrobat Pro Creative Cloud.  If I place a text box and open the properties window, including all three tabs, I do not see anywhere where I can rotate the text.  Please post snapshot of Properties box with location of rotation tool flagged.  Maybe I am just missing it?  Or, is there something (like the text box, or the text) which needs to be highlights for the rotation tool to show up in the Properties box?  (Tried both but neither seemed to have any effect.....)  Thanks!

[try67]

If you're seeing only three tabs then you need to click on Tools - Prepare Form and then click on "More" at the right side of the window and then on "Revert to Acrobat Form".

[christopherh78342952]

OK.  Thanks.  Tried that, got to MORE, didn't offer a tool to rotate the text in a text box, or the text box itself.  Note that I am not trying to create a form.  I am in the middle of an 8.5x11 portrait multipage document, in which I can cut and paste a "header" text box from the first to subsequent pages without triggering any rotation of the text or box.  Then I inserted a page from another document, also native 8.5x11 portrait, not landscape, and when I try to paste the same box from the first page to this page, it pastes, but the whole box is rotated 90 degrees, text and all.  So what started as a rectangular outlined text box running across the page with right-reading text reading from left to right now shows up as a vertical box with the text running from top to bottom of the box, though similar layout within the box as before.

If I open the text box tool, and put in a new text box on the miscreant page, and type in the same text as in the original source box, it shows up in the same orientation as the rest of the document, reading left to right.  No problem.

Go figure.

[try67]

Sorry, I thought you were referring to a text ​field​...

[Bernd Alheit]

Why didn't you use the Header & Footer feature of Adobe Acrobat?

[christopherh78342952]

Good question. Thanks! First, because I have never tried it (though I have been using Acrobat for 20+ years). I will investigate the header and footer function. Second and more important, because we include data in the page header which is page-specific (and not available as a mergeable field) in the header.

Chris

[Bernd Alheit]

For every page you can specify a own header.

[christopherh78342952]

OK, noted. But (1) can you cut and paste them, and then edit each page’s header, (2) can you rotate the header if – as has been our experience – it rotates 90 degrees when you insert a page from another document (also in 8.5x11 portrait format), (3) do the headers always show up in a consistent location on the page, (4) does the presence of a header automatically reduce the size of the page content to allow space for the header without overwriting any of the content (assuming the content is native 8.5x11), and (5) if so, does that involve only vertical shrinking, or shrinking both vertical and horizontal by the same percentage?

Thanks, Bernd!

Chris