Sunday, December 28, 2008

Touching up your graphic images


You can use the TouchUp Object tool to select graphic images or other objects that have been embedded in a PDF document. This tool uses an arrowhead with a tiny square icon. You can switch between selecting the TouchUp Text tool and the TouchUp Object tool from the Advanced Editing toolbar by pressing Shift+T. As you hold the Shift key and press T, the arrowhead icon used by the TouchUp Object tool and outlined T icon used by the TouchUp Text tool toggle between one another on the toolbar. To select a graphic with the TouchUp Object tool, you simply click it with the arrowhead pointer. After a graphic is selected (indicated by a gray bounding box around the image or object — there are no sizing handles because you can’t resize graphics in Acrobat), you can then reposition it by dragging its outline to the new position before you release the mouse button. You can also nudge a selected graphic image with the arrow keys: Just press the ←, →, ↑, and ↓keys to move the graphic by small increments until it’s in the desired position.
To select more than one graphic image or object on the page at the same time, Shift+click each object. To select a group of graphic images or objects on the page, drag the TouchUp Object tool to draw a bounding box around all the graphics to select them all together.
When you’re trying to move charts and graphs embedded on the document page (especially those originally generated in a spreadsheet program like Microsoft Excel), drag a bounding box around the entire chart to ensure that you select all the components (such charts are actually composed of a whole bunch of individual graphic objects) before you attempt to reposition it on the document page.

1 comments:

Natalia said...

Great tool. Thanks for explaining about this useful tool that is used to select graphic images that are embedded in PDF files. This tool is having lot of uses in numerous file formats that you have listed in this article.
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