The Touchup Text tool PDF Gold touchuptext Editing Text allows you to make minor revisions to a PDF document. With the tool you can edit a variety of attributes, including font, font size and horizontal scale, fill color, stroke color and width, word and character spacing, baseline offset, and font embedding and subsetting.

You must be authorized to edit the text first, because PDF documents can be secured to prevent any editing. In this case, the Touchup text tool is not available unless you get permission from the author. See Viewing PDF Security Settings.

Only if related fonts have been included on your system or embedded in the document can you change the properties of text, and add or replace text. See Embedding Fonts.

The Touchup Text tool cannot be used with form fields.

Using the Touchup Text tool might change how the document reflows and may make the document less accessible to the visually impaired.

To edit text with the Touchup Text tool:

  1. Choose Tools > Touchup > Touchup Text tool, or select the Touchup Text tool PDF Gold touchuptext Editing Text on the Advanced toolbar.
  2. Click in the text you want to edit. A bounding box outlines the selectable text.
  3. Choose Edit > Select All to select all the text in the bounding box, or Drag to select characters, spaces, words, or a line.
  4. Do one of the following to edit the text:
    • Type new text to replace the selected text.
    • Choose Edit > Delete, or press Delete to remove the text.
    • Choose Edit > Copy to copy the selected text.
    • Right-click the text and select the appropriate option.
  5. Click outside the selection to deselect it and start over.

Note: You cannot add or replace text unless the related font is installed on your system. However, you can change text attributes if the font is embedded in the PDF document.

The Touchup Text tool can also edit text attributes, such as font, font size, font color, and word/character spacing. You must have the font installed on your system to edit and replace that font.

To edit the text attributes:

  1. Choose Tools > Touchup > Touchup Text tool, or select the Touchup Text tool PDF Gold touchuptext Editing Text on the Advanced toolbar.
  2. Click the text whose attributes need editing. A paragraph of text is enclosed in a bounding box. You can drag to select text within the paragraph.
  3. Right-click the text, and choose Properties from the context menu.
  4. In the Touchup Properties dialog box, click the Text tab. You can change any of the following text attributes:
    • Font.
      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 below.
    • Font Size.
      Select a font size for the selected text.
    • Character spacing.
      Inserts uniform spacing between two or more characters in selected text.
    • Word spacing.
      Inserts uniform spacing between two or more words in the 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 color.
      The color of the font.
    • Stroke color and stroke width.
      The color and width of the font strokes.

Editing Text