Re: Adobe Reader line wrapping

On 2007-03-30, The New Guy <replytogroup@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
I like to change fonts, usually to make them bigger. Occasionally, I
need to make a font bigger than the line length will allow so but
instead of wrapping, I get a horizontal scroll bar. Obviously this
doesn't work well. In MS Word, the line just wraps as it gets bigger
and bigger. I was wondering if this is possible in Adobe Reader 8.0
somehow.

No, that's not what a PDF is. In Word, you input letters and Word lays
them out on the page for you, so if the letters are bigger there are
fewer to a line. But with a PDF, the whole document is laid out
completely, letter for letter, word for word, and page for page,
*before* you ever see it. You have no control, and you can't change
anything: you are just viewing a frozen "picture" of the document. In
effect a PDF is electronically pre-printed output. m.

Yes, understood. But what if I opened it in a PDF editor like Acrobat
or something else? Would that allow the modifications I'm seeking?

Adobe Acrobat Pro let you do some modification to the PDF, but it's not
a work processor. You can replace some text, add some, link page
together, add hyperlink, etc... Everything stay in place, so if you add
a lot of text, the rest of the document will not shift. And that's more
true for things on other pages.

If you want to do more advanced editing, you can use Illustrator to edit
one page at the time. But again, depending how the PDF was build, the
existing text in the page that's look like to be in a paragraph may be
just separated work with no relation one with each other. But you can
start a new paragraph and illustrator can wrap the text properly.. But
in that case.. that is done in another file format before being
converted back to PDF..

--
Martin
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