![]() I have been unable to determine any way to make the hidden text visible in order to see it, select it, and delete it. Yes, I keep saving my file as a new version in between every new change I made, so I reverted back to a previous version to try to use the editing tools to locate the hidden text and delete it. I can't seem to find any way to 'view' and 'select' the hidden text to delete it - the only way I can find to delete it, is to run the tools, but they force you to delete the form fields and other file details that essentially 'break' my entire document. My assumption is that having this hidden text going off the edge of the page would cause issues for some printers or maybe cause other issues that I am not able to guess so I was hoping to figure out how to remove the hidden text but only the hidden text. The content seems to be the addresses that are listed along the bottom inch of the document. Upon expanding the 'Hidden Text' section and clicking 'Preview' I was shown additional duplicated text that is hidden from view but is at the bottom of my document bleeding off the page by several inches. In those results I saw metadata like the author's name, the 3rd party software company the previous document creator must have used, javascript 'language' that I could not decipher, 'form fields' which I would not want removed since this is a fillable form, and Hidden Text. This brought up a results area with options to 'preview' the items the tool discovered and planned to remove from my file. I ran the Redact Text & Images, which brings up an option to 'santize the document' and since I am putting this on a public facing government website it seemed appropriated to try to remove any hidden text, corrupted code, or personally identifiable informaiton from the file so I ran it, but with the option to select which things get removed. Is there any way to see the hidden text and remove it - aside from the redact settings? I tried un-checking all the items in my results except the hidden text but a message comes up telling me that fields and other content will still be removed and upon testing, nearly as much of the content gets screwwed up as when I removed all the suggested edits. I am concerned that the file may be larger because of the extra text, or that it might not print for people correctly and other unknown issues. I have been searching high and low for any possible way to simply edit the document, locate the 'hidden' text and remove it. All the fillable boxes were removed, some of the font was changed to a different font, lines that are under each 'field' changed their thickness. I clicked the option to remove and way more was removed than is acceptable. The results showed metadata, file data, javascript, and hidden text. I stumbled across the redact tools to locate hidden data and so I ran it. Now that the file content and layout are approved I was going through document properties to remove unwanted info. I worked on the form for two weeks making tons of edits and getting things 'perfect'. ![]() I took the file I was provided and began editing all the contnet to turn it into 'our' form. I am not familair with using Adobe Acrobat at all but I am quite technical. ![]() I was provided an 'example' form to use as my starting point so that I would not have to start from scratch. I was tasked with creating a fillable PDF form which will be posted to our website and used by anyone who visits and requires a privacy release form.
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