How can I add text to a scanned-in document? I have a form (pdf file format) for an agency with blank spaces to write in.
How can I do that using Photoshop?
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How can I do that using Photoshop?
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Newbie: Photoshop Question (Urgent)
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Hi.
Open your .pdf document in PS (are you using CS). File > Open > <filename>
Select the text icon on the PS palette
View attachment 46296
Put the cursor onto your document and drag a rectabgle over the ? box that you are suppose to fill in.
Type your text, selecting the font, colour and size to fit (formatting palette)
When finished, click on the Pointer tool.
Adjust the position of the text box (fine adjustment by using the Up/Down arrow keys)
Repeat for the extra ? boxes that you have to fill in.
You will see that each extra text box that you create will be in an extra layer. Ignore those until the end of your text entries (but save your work periodically).
When you have finished, Layer > Merge Visible
The File > Save As
This is the way I would do it. Doubtless there are a squillion others and you will hear of those.
Get back if you have any problems.
Open your .pdf document in PS (are you using CS). File > Open > <filename>
Select the text icon on the PS palette
View attachment 46296
Put the cursor onto your document and drag a rectabgle over the ? box that you are suppose to fill in.
Type your text, selecting the font, colour and size to fit (formatting palette)
When finished, click on the Pointer tool.
Adjust the position of the text box (fine adjustment by using the Up/Down arrow keys)
Repeat for the extra ? boxes that you have to fill in.
You will see that each extra text box that you create will be in an extra layer. Ignore those until the end of your text entries (but save your work periodically).
When you have finished, Layer > Merge Visible
The File > Save As
This is the way I would do it. Doubtless there are a squillion others and you will hear of those.
Get back if you have any problems.
I'm glad it worked OK.
Alternatives for what I imagine you wanted to do (and it depends, in part, on the complexity of the form/s) is to open your .pdf file in Adobe Acrobat and save the file in an alternative format (Word, HTML etc).
FWIW, I have often come unstuck doing that - too much formatting seems to get lost - and stick with PS.
Best wishes
Alternatives for what I imagine you wanted to do (and it depends, in part, on the complexity of the form/s) is to open your .pdf file in Adobe Acrobat and save the file in an alternative format (Word, HTML etc).
FWIW, I have often come unstuck doing that - too much formatting seems to get lost - and stick with PS.
Best wishes