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For Acrobat 9 Pro how do you stop it from rotating text during copy and paste between diff. pages?

I have this problem when the pages came in sideways and I rotated all the pages. Then I insert text the right way up on one page, then copy and paste it to the other pages. Sometimes it is oriented the right way up and sometimes copies in vertical. I just had a differnet problem where I was replacing a page that had acrobat text inserted over it. When the new page came in, it was upside down, so I rotated the page. The text rotated also and so no matter what I do, the text and the new document under it aren't in the right orientation to each other. It would be nice if Acrobat in the next version could add a text rotate function or object rotate. Is there a way to deal with this other than retyping in all the text?


Elaine Pflugh


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The rotated pasted text is the consequence of differently oriented pages in their original documents. That depends on how the document has been created, and can not overcome except by recreating the PDF with controlled settings.

The workaround would be using a tool for "last second editing" in the prepress industry, such as PitStop. If I remember correctly, you can rotate text in PitStop, so that would solve the problem.

Another workaround would be using Illustrator as a helper. However, you may lose other features of your document in this case; you'd have to check whether tags and structure are still intact, for example).

Hope this can help.

Max Wyss.


By Max Wyss   

I have experienced the same issue, and it is a pain in the butt! My workaround is fairly simple. I insert the copied text and just let it come in whatever way it rotates. I click back into that text, hit Ctrl+A to select all, and hit Ctrl+C to copy it. Then I start a new text box or text command, and then just hit Ctrl+V to paste it. It will paste in the correct way. Then just simply delete the other text that is oriented the wrong way. It's a little bit of a nuance, but at least you don't have to physically retype the text. Hope this helps...


Rod Lindsey   

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