![]() Most people are disappointed with the results of the TouchUp Text tool. Avoiding the TouchUp Text Tool in this case is a virtue. You don’t have to edit the PDF and worry about making the same change later in the source document. Then you only have to make the change once, and the source document and the PDF are in sync. In my opinion, if you need to make a change it is much better to go back to the source document, make the change and then generate a new PDF that reflects the changes. I’m basically a lazy guy, so I don’t like having to do things twice. Or you can give into temptation and skip fixing the source document and archive both the modified PDF and the original source document and hope no one notices the two are different. Is it the modified PDF? The source file? And if you want both for archiving purposes, you have to remember to go back to the source document and duplicate the change you made in the PDF. Once you damage the link between the source and the PDF, you have to decide which one is the official version of the document. Breaking this link eliminates one of PDF’s big benefits-the file fidelity between the source document and the PDF. Once you have modified the text of a PDF with the Text Touchup Tool, you have broken the connection between the PDF and source file it was created from. Why am I so hard on a feature of Acrobat that so many people like? I dislike the tool so much I always tell students in my Acrobat classes that using the Text Touchup tool is the devil’s work. ![]() I’m not a big fan of the Touchup Text tool, even though in this article I am going to explain how to use it to modify text. ![]() Dance with the devil and the TouchUp Text tool ![]()
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