Thread: Help: how to select text on all pages in PDF files?
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Old 05-08-2011, 05:06 PM   #3
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Originally Posted by DSpider View Post
I'm using Adobe Reader 9 (Linux version), and after hitting Ctrl+A ("Select All"), everything from the document was selected.

Note: try viewing the document as "Single Page Continuous".


Another way would be to place the blinking cursor at the beginning of the first word, scroll all the way to the last page, then hold Shift and click the end of the last word. This would also select all the text.

Yes, I am viewing it as "single page continuous". But I need to FIRST choose "tools"---"advanced aditing"---"touchup text tool" so when I right-click the selected text I will be given the option to change the fonts and stroke width. The problem is when I do this first the "select all" button in "edit" becomes blank -- I can only right-click the text on one page and get to option to "select all" (the current page only)....And the "first word-last word" trick only works on the current page too. :-(
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