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Discard Objects panel
The Discard Objects panel lets you specify objects to remove from the PDF and lets you optimize curved lines in
CAD drawings. You can discard objects created in Acrobat and in other applications. Selecting an object removes all
occurrences of that object within the PDF.
In the Discard Objects area, you can select from these and other options:
Discard All Form Submission, Import And Reset Actions
Disables all actions related to submitting or importing form
data, and resets form fields. This option retains form objects to which actions are linked.
Flatten Form Fields
Makes form fields unusable with no change to their appearance. Form data is merged with the
page to become page content.
Discard All JavaScript Actions
Removes any actions in the PDF that use JavaScript.
Discard All Alternate Images
Removes all versions of an image except the one destined for on-screen viewing. Some
PDFs include multiple versions of the same image for different purposes, such as low-resolution on-screen viewing
and high-resolution printing.
Discard Embedded Page Thumbnails
Removes embedded page thumbnails. This is useful for large documents,
which can take a long time to draw page thumbnails after you click the Pages button.
Discard Document Tags
Removes tags from the document, which also removes the accessibility and reflow capabil
ities for the text.
Convert Smooth Lines To Curves
Reduces the number of control points used to build curves in CAD drawings,
which results in smaller PDF files and faster on-screen rendering.
Detect And Merge Image Fragments
Looks for images or masks that are fragmented into thin slices and tries to
merge the slices into a single image or mask.
Discard Embedded Print Settings
Removes embedded print settings, such as page scaling and duplex mode, from
the document.
Discard Embedded Search Index
Removes embedded search indexes, which reduces file size.
Discard Bookmarks
Removes all bookmarks from the document.
Discard User Data panel
Use the Discard User Data panel to remove any personal information that you don’t want to distribute or share with
others. If you’re unable to find personal information, it may be hidden. You can locate hidden text and user-related
information by using the Examine Document command from the Document menu.
Discard All Comments, Forms, And Multimedia
Removes all comments, forms, and multimedia from the PDF.
Discard Document Information And Metadata
Removes information in the document information dictionary and
all metadata streams. (Use the Save As command to restore metadata streams to a copy of the PDF.)
Discard All Object Data
Removes all objects from the PDF.
Discard File Attachments
Removes all file attachments, including attachments added to the PDF as comments. (PDF
Optimizer doesn’t optimize attached files.)
Discard External Cross References
Removes links to other documents. Links that jump to other locations within the
PDF are not removed.
Discard Private Data Of Other Applications
Strips information from a PDF document that is useful only to the appli
cation that created the document. This does not affect the functionality of the PDF, but it does decrease the file size.
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Discard Hidden Layer Content And Flatten Visible Layers
Decreases file size. The optimized document looks like the
original PDF but doesn’t contain layer information.
Clean Up panel
The options in the Clean Up panel of the PDF Optimizer remove useless items from the document. These items
include elements that are obsolete or unnecessary to your intended use of the document. Be aware that removing
certain elements may seriously affect the functionality of the PDF. By default, only elements that do not affect
functionality are selected. If you are unsure of the implications of removing other options, you should use the default
selections.
In the Clean Up area, you can select these options:
Use Flate To Encode Streams That Are Not Encoded
Applies Flate compression to all streams that aren’t encoded.
In Streams That Use LZW Encoding, Use Flate Instead
Applies Flate compression to all content streams and images
that use LZW encoding.
Remove Invalid Bookmarks
Removes bookmarks that point to pages in the document that have been deleted.
Remove Invalid Links
Removes links that jump to invalid destinations.
Remove Unreferenced Named Destinations
Removes named destinations that are not being referenced internally
from within the PDF document. Because this option does not check for links from other PDF files or websites, it may
not fit in some workflows.
Optimize The PDF For Fast Web View
Restructures a PDF document for page-at-a-time downloading (byte-serving)
from web servers.
Editing text and objects
Choosing a tool
Acommon misconception about PDF documents is that they should behave like any other document that contains
images and text, letting you freely move or edit items on a page. A PDF is like a snapshot of your original document.
You can perform minor touch-ups, but if your PDF requires substantial revision, it’s easier to make changes to the
source document and regenerate the PDF.
For editing text and objects, choose from the tools in the Advanced Editing toolbar. To insert editing marks in a PDF
to indicate your changes to the original document, see “Mark up text with edits” on page 173.
The TouchUp Text tool lets you add to and replace existing text if the fonts used are available on the system. If the
fonts aren’t available, you can change only the appearance of existing text. However, you can add new blocks of text
using the TouchUp Text tool. The Typewriter tool also lets you create new text, but provides fewer options to modify
new text than the TouchUp Text tool.
Note:
Using the TouchUp Text tool may affect how the document reflows, which can make the document less accessible
to the visually impaired.
The Select Object tool provides basic editing capabilities for most objects. You can modify the size, page location,
and properties of images, links, fields, and multimedia objects. You can make these same changes with the tool used
to create the object.
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To scale, rotate, flip, or clip an image or object (including text blocks), use the TouchUp Object tool. The TouchUp
Object tool can also place images and change an object’s color space (see “Convert colors to a different color space”
on page 459). If you need to edit the source file for an embedded image or object, the TouchUp Object tool can start
an image-editing or object-editing application.
Note:
Comments—even though they have a graphic appearance—are not considered page elements and therefore cannot
be selected or manipulated using the touchup tools.
Editing text with the TouchUp Text tool
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
in 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.
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4 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.
Add new text
You can add new text to a PDF using any of the fonts installed on the system.
1 Select the TouchUp Text tool.
2 Ctrl-click/Option-click where you want to add text.
3 In the New Font dialog box, select the font and mode you want, and click OK.
4 Type the new text.
5 Do any of the following:
• To change the font size and other attributes, select the text, right-click/Control-click, and choose Properties.
• To move the text block, use the TouchUp Object tool.
Add text using the Typewriter tool
Use the Typewriter tool to type text anywhere on a PDF page. Organizations sometimes provide PDF versions of
their paper forms without interactive form fields. The Typewriter tool provides a simple solution for filling out such
forms. The Typewriter tool is similar to the Text Box tool, but includes a different set of default properties.
1 Choose Tools > Typewriter > Show Typewriter Toolbar, and then click the Typewriter button.
2 Click where you want to type, and then begin typing. Press Enter to add a second line.
3 To change the text size, select the text, and click the Decrease Text Size button or the Increase Text Size button in
the Typewriter toolbar.
4 To change the line spacing (leading), select the text, and click the Decrease Line Spacing button or the Increase
Line Spacing button.
5 To move or resize Typewriter text block, select the Select tool, click a Typewriter text block, and drag the text block
or one of its corners.
6 To edit the text again, select the Typewriter tool, and then double-click in the Typewriter text.
Note:
To let Reader users type text in a PDF by using the Typewriter tool, open the PDF in Acrobat Professional, choose
Tools > Typewriter > Enable Typewriter Tool In Adobe Reader, and save the PDF.
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Insert special characters
You can insert certain special characters (line breaks, soft hyphens, nonbreaking spaces, and em dashes) in a tagged
PDF to improve the way it reflows. You can also insert these special characters in any PDF to improve the way it’s
read by a screen reader or simply to edit it for general readability purposes. You do not need to have the font installed
in order to insert special characters.
1 Select the TouchUp Text Tool.
2 Click where you want to insert the character, or select text to be replaced by the character.
3 Right-click/Control-click the selected text or location, choose Insert and then select an option.
See also
“Reflow a PDF” on page 297
Embed fonts using the TouchUp Text tool
Embedding fonts ensures that your PDF uses the same fonts as the original document, no matter where you open
the PDF or what fonts are installed on that system.
1 Choose Tools > Advanced Editing > TouchUp Text Tool, or select the TouchUp Text tool
in the Advanced
Editing toolbar.
2 Click in the text containing the font embedding or subsetting you want to edit. A paragraph of text is enclosed in
a bounding box. You can select text within the paragraph by dragging.
3 Right-click/Control-click the text, and choose Properties.
4 In the TouchUp Properties dialog box, click the Text tab to display the font name and font properties as well as
embedding and subset capabilities.
5 To see a list of all the fonts, scroll through the Font menu. Document fonts are listed first. Your system fonts are
listed below the document fonts.
6 Choose afontinthe Font menu,checkthepermissionstodeterminewhichoptionsare availableforthat font,and
then select an embedding option:
Can Embed Font
You can select both the embed and subset options. To embed the entire font rather than a subset,
make sure that Subset is not selected.
Can Embed Font For Print And Preview Only
You can only subset-embed the font. You can embed the font for print
and preview but not for editing.
Cannot Embed Font
Neither the embed nor subset option is available.
No System Font Available
Neither the embed nor subset option is available.
See also
“Fonts” on page 113
Place an image or object
1 Choose Tools > Advanced Editing > TouchUp Object Tool
.
2 Right-click/Control-click the page and choose Place Image.
3 Choose one of the following file formats: BMP, GIF, JPEG, PCX, PNG, EPS/PS, or TIFF.
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4 Select an image file, and click Open.
A copy of the image file appears in the center of the page, at the same resolution as the original file.
Move or edit an object
A selected object usually shows a bounding box. Selection handles appear when the pointer is over the object. When
the pointer is over a locked object, no selection handles appear. When you select multiple objects, the last object you
select becomes the anchor and appears red; the others appear blue. The anchor object remains stationary during
alignment operations.
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2 Right-click/Control-click the object, and choose Set Clip. When you hold the pointer over the selection, the
clipping icon
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Use the Full Screen button (circled) to view and navigate PDFs as a slide show.
Define an initial view
When a user opens your PDF document or PDF package, they see the initial view of the PDF. You can set the initial
view to the magnification level, page, and page layout that you want to have appear. If your PDF is a presentation,
you may want to set the initial view to Full Screen mode.
After you define the initial view of the PDF, you can add page transitions to selected pages or the entire document.
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