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Anonymous
June 16, 2012
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HELP PLEASE!!! - Bring To Front or Send Back in Acrobat X

  • June 16, 2012
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Hi all,

is it possible to bring object to front/back? By mistake I've deleted an image laying under some text and other images from document and now I'm not able to place it back without covering every other objects 😞

Is there any solution for this? Undo also doesn't work...

Thank you for any help,

Jirka

    Correct answer Sandeep_V_

    Yes, there is a solution. Try this:

    • Right click on Left Navigation Panel
    • Select Content
    • Now select the Picture (object) that you want to move back
    • Drag it up in the hierarchy.

    Note: This will move the content back/front if that is not merged/flattened to the PDF.

    This should change your :-( smiley to .

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    George5C16
    New Participant
    March 5, 2021

    If you print to PDF, then edit in Adobe you can type on top of the document. It flattens it in one step. 

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    HARUMI0D45
    New Participant
    July 14, 2021

    I have Adobe Acrobat XI Pro.  I have tried everyone's suggestions, and nothing seems to work. My issue is that I add an image (my signature), and then I would have to send it to the back; otherwise, the signature blocks the text in the background. So when I send it to back, my signature disappears. If I bring it back to the front, it reappears but still covers up the text behind it. I don't understand why this happens. And it's not on every document, so it puzzles me. Anyone have a solution?

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    steve5E12
    New Participant
    October 11, 2021

    If you are adding an image and you want to see through the "white space" of the image, the best solution is to edit the image so it has a transparent background.  It will need to be saved in a format that supports transparency.  I have found .PNG is the most reliable for my purposes.  You can use a program such as Photoshop or GIMP, and a tool such as "Color to Alpha", to change the white space to transparency.  Then re-create the stamp using the image with transparency.

      hsawires2
      hsawires2
      Inspiring
      December 28, 2013

      It is so weird that we miss this basic feature in Acrobat while some other competitive software do the job. However accedently I find a beter solution even in complex pages with hundreds items.

      jut select the item(2) you want to bring front of a specific object and cut it and past it again, that's it.

      acrobat will reserve the same order of the itmes you cut it and past it with the same order in the same place but in front of the itme you didnt cutt in the first place.

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        defaultdidio7wukz4s
        New Participant
        May 14, 2021

        This is the only solution that worked for me on Acrobat 2020

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        bruno_8749
        New Participant
        September 25, 2024

        I agree! the older versions of Acrobat Pro used to be much better and easier to work with than the crap they released in recent years! I can't seem to even do the basic steps posted in this discussion.

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          Anonymous
          June 17, 2012

          Thank you all for your answers. Finally, because I needed this document to be ready on Monday morning and it was not sure that someone will answer to my question, I've remade whole document. By this I've lost about 5 hours of work - but I've survived it and I can write :-) again...

          However, I've tried both of the proposed solutions - both of them are working well, even if it is true that for complex pages with hundreds items in the content pane it is little bit difficult to find the exact place where to move the covering item. When I've tried it on my damaged document, in 10 minutes I've succeed to have everything on the correct "depth".

          So, next time I'll know how to do it.

          Thank you all once again...

          :-) :-) :-)

          Jirka

          Sandeep_V_
          Sandeep_V_Correct answer
          Participating Frequently
          June 17, 2012

          Yes, there is a solution. Try this:

          • Right click on Left Navigation Panel
          • Select Content
          • Now select the Picture (object) that you want to move back
          • Drag it up in the hierarchy.

          Note: This will move the content back/front if that is not merged/flattened to the PDF.

          This should change your :-( smiley to .

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          Dave Merchant
          Brainiac
          June 17, 2012

          @Sandeep - while dragging items in the content panel is possible, in practice with a complex page it tends not to work properly in Acrobat X- and will have implications for page reflow and accessibility. For situations where a single content item must be added back into the page from an external source, we have found that using OCGs is a much simpler and more reliable solution for users.

          Sandeep_V_
          Sandeep_V_
          Participating Frequently
          June 17, 2012

          Yeah, that true! You would face difficulties with complex pages. I agree.

          You possibly need to run the accessibility setup assistant again.

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          Dave Merchant
          Brainiac
          June 17, 2012

          That exact feature is not available in Acrobat X, but you could import the missing image as a layer or page background, placing it behind the page content.

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