eBook Guides: Text Editing

Text Editing: The Simple Way To Edit PDF Text Documents

Text editing sounds rather ... complicated. But it really isn't difficult at all - especially when editing a PDF.

When a pdf file is currently open, you can look for the link that says “Touchup text tool”. Then, you can click the portion of the page that you want to edit. When you do this, a highlighted boundary box will be visible in the portion that you want to modify. Inside the highlighted box, you can edit pdf files. However, you must be sure that the text font is the same as previously presented in the original pdf file. If you do not use the right font, it is impossible to highlight that particular segment for editing purposes.

When editing a pdf file, you cannot create a very long line of edited part because the texts do not wrap it to fit the page. Also, always take note of the amount of spaces for editing. There is no set of specific spacing and may lead to misaligned parts of the modified file.

Upon opening the Touchup tool, select the part that you wish to amend. Right click the part and then choose Properties. You can then change the physical features of the text. The possible amendments are face, size and font color manipulation.

Object Selection

You can hold down the Touchup tool and select the Touchup Object tool. This will let you select the tool boxes so you can move them around the page where editing is needed. This can be very useful especially for documents that have a lot of formatting rules. One example is the deletion of non-specified space lines which are formed on several layers of rules. You can just have them deleted for clearing purposes after editing. To edit a pdf file is just a breeze as long as you know the tools to be used.