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Change a name in a RTF viewers printout

Update a person's or organisation's name wherever it appears, in the same typeface as before. This works on the PDF RTF viewers printed, even when its letters are only drawn shapes.

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How to do it

  1. 1.Drop your Microsoft Print to PDF file into MythosPDF. Drawn letters are turned back into text in a few seconds.
  2. 2.Select the old name and type the new one.
  3. 3.Repeat for each place the name appears, then Export PDF.

How RTF viewers prints

  • • Rich text files print with the fonts named inside them.
  • • Formatting is simple: fonts, bold, italic and alignment.
  • • Tables in rich text print as lines around text.

What that means when you change a name

  • • Letters you type that already appear in the printout, in the same font, are copied from its own letter shapes, so they print identically.
  • • A letter the printout never used comes from the identified typeface. For fonts that are not openly available, MythosPDF asks before using the closest open font.
  • • After export, the recovered text can be selected, copied and searched, which the printout could not do.

What happens to the rest of the page

  • • A longer name pushes the words after it along the line; right aligned names grow to the left.
  • • Names often contain letters the PDF has not used yet, like Z, Q or accented letters. The complete font is loaded for them.

Questions people ask

+Should I change names on official documents?

Only on documents you are entitled to change, such as your own drafts, templates and letters.

+Why can't I select text in my Microsoft Print to PDF file?

The driver often draws every letter as a shape instead of writing text. MythosPDF reads those shapes and turns them back into real text before you edit.

+Is it better to reprint from RTF viewers?

If you still have the RTF viewers file and a lot to change, yes. For a quick fix to the PDF you already have, editing it is faster.

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