Acrobat (ADOBE) question

Factual Questions
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I need to put a document online in PDF format that I am getting by printing a website. For what I am doing I have all the permssions I need but I need to black out parts of the document before I post the PDF.

I have not found a way to edit the PDF that is created when I choose the ADOBE PDF option from printers.

How can I black out the information (account numbers and my ss#)

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I presume if you have you have a full copy of Acrobat since you have the “Adobe PDF” printer option?

The “Text touchup” tool should let you delete the text in question. If not, I’ve done that by drawing a white box over the data to be blacked out, then re-printing the resulting document to PDF.

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Yeah, what Twoflower said should work fine, especially if all you want to do is cover up some passwords or account numbers.

Go to Tools > Advanced Editing > Touchup Text Tool

Use the tool to select the text you want to get rid of, and the just type in a bunch of X’s in its place. Then save the document. This should do the trick.

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      • You should remove the info somehow. If you only cover up the important data, someone can open it in Illustrator and take it to pieces–they can remove the white boxes.

You should either make sure the data you want out is somehow not there in the first place, or get it to someone with Illustrator who can remove it for you. I can remove it if you wish, or anyone else you trust with Adobe Illustrator can do it.
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      • Okay I tried it both ways:
        …you can use the text touch-up tool to re-write text and it propagates into the document (and replaces the previous text). The file size increases because any text-object you edit automatically gets separate into two text objects. The original text does seem to be removed however.
        …if you just “cover up” text with a white box or other object, that white box can be removed in Illustrator easily. Don’t do that.
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There is a product called Redax by Appligent that does what you want. Dunno about the price, but the link I gave has Redax lite as well.