Click Watermark and select Add Watermark.(You want to open the file in Acrobat, because Acrobat will display the type correctly, using fonts embedded in the file, even if the fonts are not installed on your computer.) You’ll need to edit the source files.įollow the steps below to convert text to outlines in Adobe Acrobat X Pro: If the problem you want to fix is textual, you’re pretty much screwed.If the PDF is going online, screen readers for the visually impaired will not be able to read it.The text will retain its formatting, but will no longer be editable.It’s buried in the Flattener Preview window, which is buried in Adobe’s answer to Microsoft’s ribbon based navigation. Adobe restored the ability to outline text without having to fuss around with watermarks or other workarounds. In Acrobat X, the process of outlining text is much easier than it was in versions 7, 8, and 9. The proposed workaround is this: open the PDF in Acrobat, outline the text, save your changes, open the PDF in Illustrator, and make your minor adjustments there. You can’t wait to get access to the source file because you’ll lose your place in your commercial printer’s queue. Without the fonts, you can’t open the PDF in Illustrator without jacking up the text. Here’s the scenario I posed in my previous article on outlining text: you need to make a small change to a graphic file, the deadline is looming, all you have is a PDF, you don’t have access to the source files, and you don’t have the fonts installed. An update post for Acrobat X is long overdue. I have updated this article accordingly.īy far, the most popular article on this blog is about outlining text in Acrobat, a task that became notoriously difficult after Acrobat 6. Fortunately, a trick that worked in prior versions still works, but it adds a couple of small steps to the procedure. An older article has information about outlining text in Acrobat versions 7, 8, and 9.ġ6 April 2013: It looks like Adobe broke this feature with an update to Acrobat. This article describes how to outline text in Adobe Acrobat X.
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