Modifying Content in the Package - Adobe Acrobat and PDF for Architecture, Engineering, and Construction - page 95

Object TouchUps
Objects created in Acrobat, such as form fields, can be selected with their associated tool or the Select
Object tool , located on the Advanced Editing toolbar. Select and manipulate content imported as part of
the document, such as text or images, using the TouchUp Object tool.
The TouchUp Object tool is located on the TouchUp subtoolbar of the Advanced Editing toolbar,
and is very useful for organizing page content. If you have added extra text, for example, you can use the
TouchUp Object tool to select blocks of text and drag to adjust the page's content (Figure 8.10).
Figure 8.10 Use the tool to rearrange content on the page
Once an object is selected it can be cut, copied, and pasted. You cannot select an object on one page and
drag it to another page. However, you can select and cut an object from one page and then paste it to
another page. The TouchUp Object tool will select multiple types of object; to select content quickly you
can click and drag a marquee with the tool that selects all the objects within the marquee.
Other Uses
Use the TouchUp Object tool to do other types of editing in your document aside from common copy/paste
functions. Select an object or objects, and choose these edit options from the shortcut menu:
x Delete Clip removes objects clipping the selected object.
x Create Artifact removes the selected object from the reading order to prevent it from being identified by
a screen reader or the Read Out Loud feature.
x Edit Image to edit a bitmap in Photoshop or Edit Object to edit a vector object in Illustrator - the
commands change depending on the object type selected.
TouchUp Preferences
If you want to use external programs for editing images and text, specify the programs in the preferences.
Choose Edit > Preferences > TouchUp. For either the Choose Image Editor or Choose Page/Object Editor
options, click the button to open a browse dialog. Locate and select the program to use and click Open to
close the dialog box and assign the program to the function.
Touching Up Reading Order
The final TouchUp tool is used to touch up reading order; that is, the path which a reading device will
follow through a document and its pages. The TouchUp Reading Order tool is used to define content
elements on a page and then order them as necessary.