Delete text in a Notepad printout
Remove words, lines or a whole paragraph and close the gap they leave behind. This works on the PDF Notepad printed, even when its letters are only drawn shapes.
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How to do it
- 1.Drop your Microsoft Print to PDF file into MythosPDF. Drawn letters are turned back into text in a few seconds.
- 2.Select the words to remove and press Delete.
- 3.Press Enter to save the line, then Export PDF.
How Notepad prints
- • Notepad prints plain text in one font for the whole page.
- • Recent Windows versions use Consolas by default; older ones used Lucida Console.
- • Page Setup can add a header and footer, such as the file name and page number, which print as text like the rest.
What that means when you delete text
- • Letters you type that already appear in the printout, in the same font, are copied from its own letter shapes, so they print identically.
- • 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
- • The text is truly removed from the file, not covered with a white box.
- • Deleting a paragraph pulls the content below it up by the space it used.
Questions people ask
+Is deleted text really gone?
Yes. The characters are removed from the page, so they cannot be copied or searched afterwards.
+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 Notepad?
If you still have the Notepad 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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