Adobe ACROBAT 9 HOW-TOS Manual page 161

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Copy That
The better you understand
some of the intricacies of
text selection, the faster you
can get your work done.
Here are some suggestions:
•
Choose Edit > Preferences
> General (Acrobat >
Preferences > General)
and click "Make Hand tool
select text and images. "
This way, when you hold
the pointer over text in a
document, it automatically
works as the Select tool.
•
If you are copying and
pasting text and intend
to send it on to others, be
aware that unless a recip-
ient's computer has the
same font, it can't be pre-
served. Acrobat replaces
that font with the closest
match.
•
When a document is
tagged, you can use
the Copy With Format-
ting option. This option
is especially useful if
your document contains
columns.
•
If you can't copy text,
check to see if the docu-
ment has security set-
tings. The author may
have specified that copy-
ing be restricted.
C h a p t e r e i g h t
Beware of Fakes!
Sometimes the touch-up results aren't what you expect—often related to fonts
used in the source program. For example, many Word documents seem to use
bold or italic text. In reality, this is probably just a bold or italic text appearance.
Unless you are using a named font, such as Arial Bold or Arial Italic, when you
try to touch up text in Acrobat you won't have an exact match for the replace-
ment font, since Acrobat doesn't simulate a bold or italic appearance.
Touching Up and Modifying a PDF Document
From the Library of Daniel Dadian