Edit text

You can add or replace text only if the font used for that text is installed on your system. If the font isn’t installed on your system but is embedded or subsetted in the PDF, you can make changes only to color, word spacing, character spacing, baseline offset, or font size.

You can edit text on rotated lines in the same way as on horizontal lines, and you can edit text using vertical fonts in the same way as text using horizontal fonts. The baseline offset or shift for vertical fonts is left and right, instead of up and down for horizontal fonts.

Edit text using the TouchUp Text tool

  1. Choose Tools > Advanced Editing > TouchUp Text Tool, or select the TouchUp Text tool  on the Advanced Editing toolbar.
  2. Click in the text you want to edit. A bounding box outlines the selectable text.
  3. Select the text you want to edit:

    • Choose Edit > Select All to select all the text in the bounding box.

    • Drag to select characters, spaces, words, or a line.

  4. Edit the text by doing one of the following:

    • Type new text to replace the selected text.

    • Press Delete, or choose Edit > Delete to remove the text.

    • Choose Edit > Copy to copy the selected text.

    • Right-click/Control-click the text and choose the appropriate option.

      Click outside the selection to deselect it and start over.

Edit text attributes

  1. Select the TouchUp Text tool.
  2. Click in the text you want to edit.
  3. Right-click/Control-click the text, and choose Properties.
  4. In the TouchUp Properties dialog box, click the Text tab. You can change any of the following text attributes:
    Option Description
    Font

    Changes the font used by the selected text to the font you specify. You can select any font installed on your system or fully embedded in the PDF document. Document fonts are listed at the top; system fonts are listed below.

    Font Size

    Changes the font size to the size (in points) that you specify.

    Character Spacing

    Inserts uniform spacing between two or more characters in selected text.
    Word Spacing

    Inserts uniform spacing between two or more words in selected text.
    Horizontal Scaling

    Specifies the proportion between the height and the width of the type.
    Baseline Offset

    Offsets the text from the baseline. The baseline is the line on which the type rests.
    Fill

    Specifies the fill color.
    Stroke

    Specifies the stroke color.
    Stroke Width

    Specifies the width of the stroke.

    Note: For legal reasons, you must have purchased a font and have it installed on your system to revise text using that font.