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You can insert 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. Note: Editing
and saving a digitally signed PDF invalidates the signature.
Edit text using the Edit Document Text tool (formerly TouchUp Text)The Edit Document Text tool works best when
editing only a few characters. For more extensive editing, make
changes in the original document (if available), and then recreate
the PDF.
- Choose Tools > Content >
Edit Document Text.
- Click in the text you want to edit. A bounding box outlines
the selectable text. If a bounding box doesn’t appear, choose Tools
> Recognize Text > In This File. For details, see Recognize text in scanned documents.
- 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.
- 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/Command-click the text and choose the
appropriate option.
- Click outside the selection to deselect it and start
over.
Replace custom fonts with local fontsDocuments scanned to PDF using the ClearScan
option in Acrobat can’t be edited until you replace the fonts. During
the conversion to PDF, ClearScan converts the fonts in the document
to custom fonts. To edit the scanned text, replace the custom fonts
with fonts that you have on your computer. These fonts are called system or local fonts.
- Use the TouchUp Text tool to select the text you
want to edit.
- Right-click/Command-click the selected text, and choose
Properties. Make sure the Text tab opens.
- Open the Font menu, and select a font below the line
that closely matches the custom font.
- In the Font Size menu, select a size that closely matches
the custom font.
- Leave the other properties in the Text tab as they are.
Edit text attributes- Select
Tools > Content > Edit Document Text.
- Click in the text you want to edit.
- Right-click the text, and choose Properties.
- In the TouchUp Properties dialog box, click the Text
tab. You can change any of the following text attributes:
- 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.
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If the original document is unavailable,
try exporting the PDF to Word. Choose File > Save As > Microsoft
Word > [version]. For details, see 
