Adobe Acrobat 9 Pro Typewriter Change Font
Ariel Wascom
I am having an issue with the typewriter tool. I cannot seem to change my font on about 95% of my PDFs? Every once in awhile I am able to change the font and size. But I cannot find a consistancy and cannot figure out the issue? When I want to write on the PDFs to change size or font, it won't allow me to. Any ideas?
The problem hasn't progressed that far for me. I have found that if I start text 'off page' in the grey area and then move them to where they are wanted, things have continued to work indefinitely. There is also another entry in the string about ensuring all of the text functions are switched on which also helped. But yes it is frustrating how many people will tell you the obvious, especially the dude with the German flag. The problem being of course that the touch up text and typewriter tools are available so erratically.
Even though you can use the typewriter in Acrobat Pro, for some reason, the font and size is fixed until you "enable" it in Adobe Reader. It looks like it has something to do with security signatures or something. Anyhow, the way this is presented to the user seems profoundly confusing.
I, along with countless millions of Acrobat 8 and 9 users, I am sure, have the same problem. If you enable the full formatting of typewritten text (font size, color, line spacing) by "enabling" Adobe Reader then you lose other desired features of the Adobe Acrobat software that you purchased.
Hi, I had the same problem but found that you have to select which font you want BEFORE you start to type. Once you have typed some text, the options are greyed out. If you select the typewriter tool, and select to show the tool bar too - then click where you want the text to go - then you will see the fonts toolbar options are not greyed out. If the text you choose is too large for the area you want, unfortunately you have to delete it and choose a smaller size and start again. Hope this helps.
Checked the pdf Standard - it was set to 1.7 so it should work. it didn#t even show up with a self produced pdf where i used it just two day ago.
Finaly I thought about pixel location and as I'm working with a notbook and an upright 24" screen and decieded to set the screenmode to only one monitor. And voila Problem solved formatbox showed up at the bottom as the regedit info states now 0.
I have had the same problem recently. (cannot change typewriter properties, document has no security features, etc.) I just recently discovered the Adobe hasn't been closing properly all the time. It looks like it closes, but something is hung up and it is still running in the background.
I find this happens more often than I like. I rarely turn off my computer. I have a desktop sheet-fed scanner (where I got Acrobat 8). I also have pdf creator software from both Quickbooks and tax software programs. I wonder if Windows sometimes gets confused about how to handle pdf files/regeistry/etc.
5) after all that (I am not sure if its required) you would highlight the text you want to change and press CTRL + e and you should get the text box properties tool bar to pop up (upper right corner of toolbar) and allow you to change the font.
I found mlukac's post, #49 (to wit, 49. Jul 16, 2010 12:54 PM in response to: lorne17), to work at least for the time being and to be the most likely true solution. This solution may take the heat off adobe and put it on Microsoft . . . or not. Using my own half-baked sophist(icated) noob wording, at least it suggests to me that it's a fundamental flaw between the OS & the application, rather than within the software functionality itself.
Yes I am aware of this tool. But I used the Typewriter tool to write on top of the actual PDF. Sometimes it allows me to use the tools in the typewriter toolbox and most of the time it doesn't. How do I activate these tools to allow the text I type, using the typewriter tool to input new text on top of the PDF??
When I use the Typewriter tool, I can move, and position the text I typed. But the font, size, increase/decrease size, increase/decrease line spacing and the color options stay greyed out in the Typewriter toolbar. That used to show as options I can select and not greyed out. Why is this?
Yes, I've tried changing the text before typing while having the typewriter tool active. I've tried clicking the text to change it. I've tried highlighting the text to change it. I've tried to go to properties of the text, and no options under there.
Here is my experience. I could not activate the typewriter toools' font change, size and type boxes , located next to the Typewriter Logo,either. They were faded out and not active. So, when I typed something in the typewriter box, I highlighted ( selected) the typed text, then i double clicked on it. suddenly, the inactive typewriter features, like font size, spacing, type,etc., became active!
Using Acrobat 3D (8.1.4)
Open the Typewriter toolbar. With the Hand tool selected, single click on a text string
entered earlier by the Typewriter tool. The cursor shape becomes up-down, left-right
arrows. Double Click.
The mouse pointer is now an "I-beam" and a blinking cursor line is present at the insertion point. Click-drag to select text.
The Typewriter toolbar's change options become accessible.
(text size and line spacing)
With the text string still selected, right click for the context menu. Go to the bottom
entry (Text Style) from which a secondary menu is presented for some choices for
text style.
Using Acrobat Pro Extended (9.1)
A similar approach. Hand tool > double click > use "I-beam" to click-drag for text selection.
Options for change are now accessible on the Typewriter toolbar.
Unlike Acrobat 8, you have font color, font type and font size as choices with
Acrobat 9.
Acrobat 9.1 Pro - the only solution for me is closing and opening acrobat and then using the typewriter before any other tools. Not a real solution as it wastes considerable time. After using other tools and returning to typewriter, often the options (color, font, size) are gone until I close and re-open. Does anyone have a better solution?
Good one Puckhockey, that worked for me (close Acrobat and reload). Other solutions further down may also work. Will try a couple next time the stupid font manager doesn't work. Like someone said - ADOBE PLEASE FIX THIS GLITCH (Win 7/64 Acrobat 9.4 standard)
I don't think you understand the purpose of the typewriter tool. It is to add information to an existing pdf, not to edit eg, a scanned or printed pdf. You cannot treat Acrobat like a word processor. No-one would try to produce a business card in Acrobat or to edit an existing card. You need a word processor for that. However, I do agree that the typewriter tool is a pain in the neck, at least in Acrobat 9.
The Adobe Acrobat interface operation appears to be written by beginners. No doubt they've met all their design requirements with regard to cutting, pasting, moving objects around - but unless you know the code you're in for one hell of a frustrating time trying to use the product.
There also seems to be a issue with the operating security setting for the file. I had some files someone else gave me from a Vista system and since the his User-ID was different then mine the security settings change in the transfer.
In Explorer, right-click on the file, select Properties, then select the Security Tab, Select the User-ID for your login, and make sure that the User-ID that you are using has "Full control" of the file. If it doesn't, hit the "Edit" button, and again select you're User-ID, and in the lower panel select the "Full control" check box under the "Allow" heading. This has worked for me when the typwriter fonts/size/color are grayed-out.
From inside Acrobat, print the document to a new pdf (File > Print... > select "Adobe PDF"). Then open the newly printed PDF in Acrobat. Typewiter & font resizing now work fine on the printed file and the document contents appears no different than the originals as far as I can tell.
I'm not sure what the solution is, but I have some information that might help shine some light on this issue (which has also become troublesome for me). In doing some investigation in what caused this issue to occur, and how to resolve it, I found that the "Typewriter Tool" and the Commenting & Markup's "Text Box Tool" appear to be very closely related...
When this problem appeared for me, and I could no longer edit the font for my Typewriter entries, I noticed that in the "Comment View" pane these entries no longer had a "typewriter" icon next to them but instead had a "text box" icon next to them; as follows (I created a new Typewriter entry so you could see the comparison):
I also noticed that there was a difference in the Properties boxes when you double-clicked on each item, but now seeing that this may be irrelevant, I have decided not to include the 6 screen shots showing their differences.
In trying to figure out what would create a "text box" icon instead of a "typewriter" icon in the "Comment View" pane, I found that it was the Commenting & Markup's "Text Box Tool" (as pictured below) that would do just that when using it to add text to a PDF.
For formatting changes to text in added boxes, comments, etc., the Typewriter tool is of no use. Use the Properties pop-up box. This pop-up seems to be available only through the key combination Ctrl-e (not case-sensitive). In Acrobat X, this box cannot be docked at the side (a la page thumbnail icon) or remain in the toolbar.
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