About Michael Jahn Expertise Any and all questions related to creating and modifying PDF files for use in prepress and printing environments.
Experience After being a director of a prepress company, I was involved in development and was product manager to several prepress products related to PDF creation, production and submission to high end printing environments.
Organizations PODi, IPA, Acrobat Users Group, (and was technical director of SGAUA - the Scitex Graphic Arts User Association - what we used to call the Floor Top Publishing systems back in the 80's!
Education/Credentials BS in Biomedical communications, University of Illinois in Urbana-Champaign
Awards and Honors AGFA's PDF Evangelist - was honored to receive, of behalf of AGFA, an award for shipping the 1st PostScript 3 RIP (AGFA Taipan) from Adobe
Past/Present Clients I have been a consultant to many developers. SGAUA (Scitex), 4-Sight, AGFA, Enfocus, Pantone, and currently, ELAN GMK
Expert: Michael Jahn Date: 4/27/2007 Subject: Touch up text tool
Question Hi, When I've scanned a document as a pdf and then opened it in Adobe Acrobat Standard 7.0 in order to use the touch up text tool to add a few words and/or change some text, it doesn't always want to work. Do you have any suggestions as to what the reason for this can be and what I can do to make it work. The very first time I tried it a few months ago, it did work fine, and now something must have happened. Could it be a stupid windows update or java update that is causing problems?
Answer When you scan a document and open that scan in Acrobat, it is an image - there are no 'text' elements to edit. I think you may be a little mixed up, as this would never work as you described. You probably were editing text that came from a PDF that was generated from an authoring application. Even if you OCR the type - you can't visualize the type changes. In this case, you would need to open the scan in Adobe Photoshop, erase the text and type your changes. I wish it were that easy (and so does everyone else !)
