Operation Manual

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Security
Last updated 4/7/2015
Set the default look of all marks
1 Click To ol s > Redact.
The Redact toolset is displayed in the secondary toolbar.
2 In the secondary toolbar, choose Properties.
The Redaction Tool Properties dialog box is displayed.
3 On the Appearance tab, select options you want to change, and then click OK:
• 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.)
• In the Redaction Mark Appearance area, click the Outline Color icon or Fill Color icon or both. 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. Choose No Color to leave the selected area blank.
Properties for redaction text (Acrobat Pro DC)
Custom Text Displays text you type into the Custom Text option over the redaction mark.
Font Displays custom text in the selected font.
Font Size Displays custom text in the selected point size.
Auto-Size Text To Fit Redaction Region Resizes custom text to fit within the redacted area. When selected, this option
overrides the Font Size setting for the overlay text.
Font Color Displays custom text in the selected color, which you can change by clicking the color swatch.
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 Aligns text to the left, right, or center.
Redaction codes (Acrobat Pro DC)
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.S. FOIA and U.S. 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.
Note: Codes don’t save the current attributes for overlay text as part of the code definition, such as colors, font
characteristics, and repetition or size of text. 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.