Adobe Acrobat: Blacken texts - so it'll work

This practical tip explains how you can blacken PDF texts with Adobe Acrobat and make them illegible for third parties.

Adobe Acrobat: Blacken texts - so it'll work

These instructions refer to Adobe Acrobat 11.0.0.

1. Open your document in Adobe Acrobat.
2. Click on the "Display" tab.
3. Select "Tools"> "Protection" there.
4. Now click on the "Black out and remove content" option in the tool list on the right and mark the text passages.
5. Now select the text to be blackened. You can use different methods for this.
6. The 3 methods are: "highlight text for redaction", "blacken entire page" or "search for a term or pattern and blacken all occurrences".
7. After marking, remove the text permanently. To do this, click on "Apply redaction".
8. In the next step you confirm that the content to be blackened is permanently removed. To apply this, you must save the PDF file.
9. Enter a name for the new file. Add something to the old file name so that the original file is not overwritten.
10. Then click on "Save".

We will show you how to insert a text in Adobe Acrobat in the next practical tip.