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Free Engineering Software. When you subscribe to Acrobat DC enhanced with Document Cloud services, you pay a low monthly fee to get ongoing access to the latest PDF tools across desktop, browser, and mobile devices to help you accomplish more when working with documents in the office or on the go: Get a consistent user experience across desktop, browser, and mobile devices. Fill and sign forms on the go from your browser or iOS device.
Create, combine, and export PDFs from your browser or mobile device. Send documents for signature from your desktop, browser, or mobile device. Send, track, and confirm delivery of documents sent electronically. Combine multiple files to PDF, and organize pages from your browser. Sync preferences across computers. You can set the default appearance of redaction marks before you mark items for redaction. You can also change the look of redaction marks before you apply the redactions. Click the drop-down, and choose Properties.
The Redaction Tool Properties dialog box is displayed. On the Appearance tab, select options you want to change, and then click OK :. Displays text you type into the Custom Text option over the redaction mark. Resizes custom text to fit within the redacted area. When selected, this option overrides the Font Size setting for the overlay text. Repeat Overlay Text. Fills the redacted area with as many instances of the custom text as needed, without changing the font size.
For example, if you specify the letter x or a hyphen - as the custom text, these characters are repeated throughout the redacted area. Text Alignment. Acrobat uses overlay text to overprint areas selected for redaction. One example of overlay text is a redaction code, which consists of one or more code entries from a code set.
Acrobat includes the U. FOIA and U. Privacy Act code sets that you can use. You can use either codes or custom text to create overlay text. The difference is that redaction codes are text entries that you can save, export, and import. One code set can contain multiple codes. Codes only make the overlay text itself reusable in future sessions and by other users with whom you share code sets. You set other attributes for the code in the Redaction Tool Properties dialog box.
Optional Type a new name for the set in the text field below the list of code sets, and then click Rename Set. Click Add Code , and type the text that you want to appear as overlay text in the text field below the list of code entries, and then click Rename Code. Select a code set from the list on the left, and click Edit Codes. In the Redaction Code Editor dialog box, do any of the following:. With the Code Set selected, select the code entry that you want to edit, and do one of the following:.
Select a Code Set from the list at the bottom of the context menu, and then select a code entry from the drop-down menu. A check mark appears next to the code entry when the code is applied. Hold your pointer over the redaction mark to see the code entries, each one separated by a comma.
To apply the same code to multiple redactions, set the redaction properties before you mark the content. In the secondary toolbar, click Properties. Legal Notices Online Privacy Policy. Removing sensitive content from PDFs Search.
Why redact or remove sensitive content? Redact sensitive content Acrobat Pro. Select the text or image in a PDF, right-click, and select Redact. Select the text or image in a PDF, choose Redact in the floating context-menu. Mark items you want to remove by doing any of the following:. Double-click to select a word or image. Drag to select a line, block of text, object, or area. To preview how your redaction marks appear, hold the pointer over the marked area.
Search and remove text Acrobat Pro. The Redact toolset is displayed in the secondary toolbar. Do one of the following:. To search for only one word or phrase, choose Single Word Or Phrase and type the word or phrase in the text field. You can also import a text file with the list of words or phrases to search for. To search for a pattern for example, phone numbers, credit card numbers, email addresses, social security numbers, or dates , click Patterns. Choose one of the available patterns. You can change the language version of the patterns.
See Select a different language version for patterns. Then, select the occurrences you want to mark for redaction:. To select all occurrences in the list, click Check All. To select individual occurrences, click the check box for each one you want to redact. Click the text next to a check box to view the occurrence on the page.
To mark none of the occurrences, close the Search dialog box or click New Search to start over. To mark whole words or partial words characters for redaction, select the option under Redaction Mark Options. In the Settings dialog box, specify the number and location of the characters for redaction.
The items you selected in the list are shown marked for redaction. To remove the marked items, click Apply in the secondary toolbar. Find and remove hidden content Acrobat Pro. Make sure that the check boxes are selected only for the items that you want to remove from the document.
See Remove Hidden Information options. Remove Hidden Information options. Bookmarks Bookmarks are links with representational text that open specific pages in the PDF. Comments And Markups This item includes all comments that were added to the PDF using the comment and markup tool, including files attached as comments. Form Fields This item includes Form Fields including Signature fields , and all Actions and calculations associated with form fields.
Hidden Text This item indicates text in the PDF that is either transparent, covered up by other content, or the same color as the background. Hidden Layers PDFs can contain multiple layers that can be shown or hidden. Deleted Or Cropped Content PDFs sometimes retain content that has been removed and no longer visible, such as cropped or deleted pages, or deleted images.
Overlapping Objects This item includes objects that overlap one another. Sanitize document Acrobat Pro. It removes: Metadata Embedded content and attached files Scripts Hidden layers Embedded search indexes Stored form data Review and comment data Comments hidden within the body of the PDF file Hidden data from the previous document saves Obscured text and images Unreferenced data Links, actions, and javascripts Overlapping objects.
Select a different language version for patterns Acrobat Pro. Change the look of redaction marks Acrobat Pro. Set the default look of all marks. Click the Redacted Area Fill Color icon and select a fill color from the color palette for the boxes that replace removed items.
Choose No Color to leave the redacted area blank. Select Use Overlay Text if you want to select the custom text or redaction code options. Select the font, size, and text alignment. Select Custom Text , and type the text you want to appear in the redacted area.
Select Redaction Code , and then either select a code within an existing set, or click Edit Code to define a new code set or a new code.
See Create redaction codes and code sets. Select a color from the color palette for the images and text you mark for redaction. Move the slider to adjust the opacity of the color.
