How to Add new Text to your form in Adobe's Acrobat Reader

Authored by: Support.com Tech Pro Team

1. Introduction

How to Add new Text to your form in Adobe's Acrobat Reader

2. Add new text

1. Select Tools > Edit PDF > Add Text 

1. Drag to define the width of the text block you want to add.
2. For vertical text, right-click the text box, and choose to Make Text Direction Vertical
3. The Add text tool intelligently detects the following text properties of text close to the point of click:
4. Font name, size, and color
5. Character, paragraph, and line spacing
6. Horizontal scaling
7. These text properties are automatically applied to the text that you add at the point of click.
8. You can change the text properties using the options under Format in the right pane
9. Type the text.
10. To resize the text box, drag a selection handle.
11. To move the text box, place the pointer over the line of the bounding box (avoid the selection handles). When the cursor changes to Move pointer 

1. , drag the box to the new location. To maintain alignment with the other list items, press Shift as you drag