Add Text vs Add Text box

[gmoProA]

Just curious, how come there are fewer choices after Adding Text vs Adding text box.

When i just add text to the pdf, i cant put it in Italics.  If I add it with the text box, i can and have more options. Why?

i want to add text without the box and have italics or whatever else that the text box gives you.  Please add those capabilities.

[gmoProA]

Anyone want to answer my question?

[Claudio González]

Maybe nobody knows the answer? Are you talking about Adobe Acrobat, or the free Reader?

[gmoProA]

Adobe Acrobat Reader DC.  Do you know why we cant add Text or the T to the main tool bar. It is a pain to have to keep opening the comments bar to add text every time.  Too bad we cant add other comment icons there.  Too many tool bars in my opinion. Give users ability to add more icons to that main bar. Guess i need to suggest that to Adobe.

[try67 · Accepted solution]

They are simply different kind of comments with different properties available to the user.

You can remove the box of a Text Box Comment, though. Select the comment itself (not the text in it), press Ctrl+E and change the border style in the floating properties window to "No Border".

[gmoProA]

yep, they are different. Wish the add text feature had more options though.

[sleerfnivek]

I think one of the problems is that to simply add text to a pdf within the regular text of the document rather than an overlay which may or may not match, Acrobat has to do optical character recognition. When that is done, adding/editing text can be very frustrating. 
I recently ran across this when I wanted to update my resume and the only copy I could find was a pdf. It was downright horrid and after messing around with it for over an hour trying to edit one sentence and add another, I gave up and retyped the entire thing. Exporting to word just made a terrible mess of formatting making it just as impossible to edit. 

Acrobat just isn't meant for editing things like a word processor document. It does fine when you need to edit a simple flyer or basic text, but with things like resumes, invoices, bill statements, etc.... anything with tables.... there are just so many sources that it's near impossible to reverse engineer them. That's something that Acrobat just can't do.... Yet. 

This is where AI can be used to make a world of difference.

I think it would be great if there were an option to reverse engineer documents. If an AI could be trained to recognize paragraph indents, spacing, tables, fonts, layouts, etc, it could make this awkward work much easier. You could choose "Document Reconstruction" from the menu, define a source such as MS Word, and it could break down the document as if it were an MS Word document. This would be a POWERFUL new tool! 

Now that I'm thinking about it, this is what it should do when exporting as a Word document. lol

When exporting as a document type, it should run through AI to check and make sure that the exported document will actually appear the same as the pdf. Right now, more often than not when I export something to a Word document it's more often than not, a complete mess. The same when exporting to Excel. Rather than exporting, then looking at the exported result in disappointment, it needs to use Ai to internally generate the document, compare its appearance to the pdf and if it isn't right, edit.... over and over until it DOES appear the same as the document.  

This would be amazing and would solve me and a lot of others a LOT of trouble.