What am I missing - it can be difficult to create a PDF file and put in text

I'm experimenting Acrobat X

(1) so I want to create a file PDF - ahhh, how is that I need to atually open/import an existing PDF or other document? How do I just start with a blank page. You mean I have to really go and create using another program, or did I miss something, because my definition of creation, is to create, not to modify any other document?

(2) so that I had a PDF file that I had collected from different sources and added a blank page at the beginning.

On this blank page, I went to tools | Change the text & objects | Add or change the Tex box. and added a text box. Where can I really format the text, with the exception of the base font and size. How can I make "BOLD" or anything else for that matter. In fact I entered the line, and breaks when I clear the text box, he removed all.

I looked in the forums, I watched your videos, which ideally stop before explaing the "Add or edit text box.

I found that I could use the Documents to text editing to change the text that was already there, but seriously its very very and I mean very easy Assembly - it seems to be nothing complicated about this, including any "BOLD", or Itallics. Maybe he has ben that the police was not available, and so I couldn't change the size of the stroke (if that's what is classified as "BOLD").

Sheesh I have more editing control by using the $ 20 million program, that I bought at another provider, what looks like closely using MS Word and allows me to implement editable forms.

So what - that I'm missing?  where is the creation, where is the feature? Y at - it another program that Adobe uses to CREATE a PDF file?

Thank you

John,

Acrobat is used to create PDFs from other files. Originally, all files would be printed to the file as a postscript file which would be distilled manually (using Acrobat Distiller). Today, there are two basic methods for creating pdf files. Adobe has simplified things a bit for you that you can print to a virtual printer which will create a temporary postscript file that will be sent to distil for you and create a pdf file. For some programs, such as Microsoft Office programs have a plug-in which will create the PDF directly from the Office program without using the virtual printer to create an Adobe Acrobat PDF file.

When you have a PDF, the Acrobat program can be used to change the pdf file (create the form fields, write comments, crop the pdf file, combine PDFs etc..). The content of the pdf file must be in paper virtual (or better still stone). You can add emblishments, but not easily change its contents.

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