This Month's Tips & Tricks Topic: - Simple Text “Editing” with PDF

October, 2011

This Month’s Tips & Tricks Topic:

Simple Text “Editing” with PDF-XChange Viewer

Not only can PDF-XChange Viewer v2 perform extensive mark up and

annotation to a PDF document, it can even mask over existing content to

blank it out and allow you to replace it with new content. Many things that

users expect need true editing of a PDF document can be handled in this

way. When using these techniques the underlying content, though not

visible, remains in the document itself.

Simple Text “Editing” with PDF-XChange Viewer PRO

This month we are going to take a look at simple text “editing” with the licensed PDF-XChange Viewer PRO. PDF-

XChange does not, as of V2.x of the viewer, have the ability to change the base content of a PDF document directly.

Version 3 of the viewer is set to be released sometime before the end of this year and will include direct editing.

Use the Text Box Tool to blank over existing text

STEP 1

Select the Text Box Tool from the

Tool Bar

Here you can set the background colour,

border style, colour and thickness as

well as the objects opacity and even its

Blend mode.

STEP 2

Choose a background colour that

matches your document

Very often this will be white. Also select

a 0.0 pixel border (no border) border:

STEP 3

Create your masking Box

Select Text Box Tool and draw a box

around the text you wish to hide.

STEP 4

Position Empty Text Box

This empty text box can now be moved

around and re-sized using the select tool

and the objects 'handles' to cover

exactly the text you wish to hide.

STEP 5

Add Your Own Text

By double clicking the Text Box Object

using the select tool you can even go in

there and add your own text:

STEP 6

Match up Text Style

You can use the Properties Toolbar to

match the font, size, and colour of your

text with the existing text

STEP 7

Flatten Comments

Finally you can flatten the comments

which will prevent your changes from

being altered as they get “pushed” into

the base content of the PDF file.

Finally don’t forget to save the File.

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