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Recent upgrade to Adobe Acrobat Pro Version 2023.008.20470.
I have lost the ability to add text boxes with borders with this NEW version, to existing PDF's. Does anyone know where this functionality went? This is very frustrating. It used to be in Comments--> Squares/Rectangles.
I can find New Text. I can find new Squares or new Rectangles. But I CANNOT create "new text boxes with borders" all-in-one, with this new version. Please don't suggest it is in "Prepare a Form". That is not the same as a free form text box with a border. I need to create a new text box with a border with text that automatically wraps to the next line according to the size of the box.
What happened? I paid a lot of money for a new version that produces LESS functionality.
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It's still there:
(RMB for changing the text box properties!)
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I want to put a box around existing text on a PDF I'm editing. I want to make it opaque so that text shows through and I want to add a border with color and line width of my choosing.
Why cannot it be done within Acrobat? In fact, why does ANYTHING have to be taken to a web page for editing?!?!?!
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Took me ages to figure out how to do this in the free version too, so in case anyone also struggling:
From 'Add Comments' in the main sidebar, click on the second one down and scroll to 'Add text comment'.
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I just found that an update "fixed" this issue. One has to customize the toolbar and add the same "Text Comment" tool (looks like:
And remove the former one (if it was on the Comments toolbar). The "old" one didn't draw a box around the text, the new one does. I'm now on Ver 2025.001.20435 (64 bit), and this didn't work until just now.
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