You can continue to edit text in PDF documents in Acrobat X. The functionality remains the same that you’re used to in earlier versions of Acrobat. You can edit the text, or change the text attributes.
The TouchUp Text tool is now called “Edit Document Text“, and is located under Tools > Content > Edit Document Text.
- To edit the text, click on the text and insert/delete the text. Acrobat X highlights the text that you’ve selected for editing.
- To modify text attributes, select the text, right-click and choose Properties. The TouchUp Properties dialog box opens.
TouchUp Properties dialog box
Notes
- If you have lots of fonts installed on your system, it can take a little while before all of them are loaded. So be a little patient…
- You can edit text only if the font used for that text is installed on your system.
- If the font is only embedded or subsetted in the PDF, you can make changes to text attributes.
- Be aware of any legal issues if you’re using propriety fonts.
- It is more efficient to edit the source file if you’re planning to edit entire pages or document. This works best if you just want to touch up the text.
See Edit Text in Acrobat X online help for more details.
#1 by AD on July 22, 2011 - 11:28 pm
Trying to edit text, which has been justified, in Acrobat Pro X. Driving me around the bend!
Letters appear one on top of the other or with huge amounts of space around each letter.
Is there an option to make the text wrap and fit properly? I only have minor edits to make, but it is taking forever. I do not have access to the original document, as the client provided the PDF.
Thanks
#2 by Katherine Tarpey on March 8, 2012 - 9:45 pm
You can fix this issue by going into ‘edit >> Preferences”, select the category ‘TouchUp’ and then click the checkbox that reads “Enable Text Word Wrapping”.
#3 by Sue on September 29, 2011 - 11:35 pm
I cann’t edit my doc. I have Abobe X. This is the error that I receive:
“All or part of the selection has no available system font, You cannot add or delete text using the currently selected font.”
#4 by Rick on January 19, 2012 - 4:08 am
I am having the same issue, did you ever get this resolved and if so how?
#5 by Jan on January 16, 2012 - 1:47 pm
I am trying to edit a doc with embedded text, but am told that there is no system font for practically all of the fonts used (mostly myriad pro varieties). However, I do have these fonts in Windows, and have transferred them also to the adobe file. Still won’t work. What can I do, it’s driving me round the bend!…
#6 by John on January 27, 2012 - 1:05 am
I am trying to edit a doc with embedded text, but am told that there is no system font. How do I get around this error wanting to use the same font within my document – MetaBlackLF-Roman
#7 by Max Ambrosio on February 1, 2012 - 3:07 am
I hate this,….so hard to edit embedded stuff. Wasted too much time.
Nothing done
#8 by Johan on February 23, 2012 - 12:32 pm
Its a nightmare editing exit in this program. How do you ungroup the text blocks to shift them around without the text-jumping-off the page feature kicking in?
#9 by Febbysue on May 24, 2012 - 12:56 pm
Best process is to edit it with word program. Tools > Export a .pdf > Select from the drop down list > convert. From there you can do whatever you want. You have more option. With word 2010, and 2007, you may easily save them as pdf.