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johnw80926713
johnw80926713
New Participant
January 18, 2019
Question

Text formatting changes when editing

  • January 18, 2019
  • 2 replies
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When opening a file with Adobe Acrobat DC Pro for editing, the edit box, instead of bounding each sentence, bounds each individual word.

If I wish to change text colour, size, font etc, I have to do this for each word instead of a whole sentence.

This never used to happen before I enrolled in the subscription service.

Have I somehow changed settings or something.

Very annoying.

Any help appreciated.

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    Nina249450254ctx
    New Participant
    June 20, 2022

    I would like this feature as well, it would be nice to be able to have a default so I can set my text color from black to red without changing the whole PDF to red using the assessablity preference. There is no way to save just my text color preference when making notes on the pdf. 

    try67
    try67
    Community Expert
    January 18, 2019

    There are no settings you could have changed that affect it. Editing PDF files in this way should be a desperate last resort, if absolutely no other options are available to edit the file. The best way is to go back to the original file, edit it and then create a new PDF from it.

    Second best is to export the PDF to an editable format (Word, InDesign, etc.) and then do the steps above. Third best is probably recreate the file from scratch...

    johnw80926713
    johnw80926713Author
    New Participant
    January 18, 2019

    This is for every file I open, not one or two.

    I am in UK, while  my graphics and printing are done in Thailand.

    I edit the files they send, and they make the corrections in Thailand, so I am sorry, your suggestions are impractical.

    The real question is: why is this happening?

    Is it something that happens to you?

    Why has it only started to happen since I have used a subscription service?

      try67
      try67
      Community Expert
      January 18, 2019

      Who created the files? In what format?

      I can't answer your last questions. My guess is something changed in the way the application interprets text blocks and/or in the way your files are created, which caused this issue.

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