

Drag the cursor to resize the text box.Resizing cursor (Enlarged to show detail) Hover your cursor over one of the border handles (small squares) until your cursor becomes a resizing cursor, which is two lines with two arrows.įigure 5.Select Edit in the Edit PDF toolbar (see figure 6).Example of fixed-width text box How to Resize a Text Box in a PDF

To create a fixed-width text box, drag your cursor to create the box and then type or copy and paste text into the box. Fixed-width text boxes maintain their original width and only scale lengthwise to the end of the page to accommodate additional text.To create a scalable text box, place your cursor anywhere on the page and then type or copy and paste text onto the page. Scalable text boxes extend from the cursor to the right margin and the bottom margin of the page as text is added.Create a scalable text box or a fixed-width text box and then enter your text.Select Add Text from the Edit PDF toolbar.If you need to create a new PDF or add a blank page to an existing PDF, please see my other tutorial “ How to Create a Blank PDF in Adobe Acrobat.” Ingest the text into analysis programs like ATLAS.The steps below assume you are adding text to an existing PDF.

