PDF Is Misaligned? 2 Easy Ways to Align PDF Text

Editing PDF is not as easy as editing Word, so it is very likely that the text will be misaligned. The PDF text may be misaligned for the following reasons:

• Many people may like to create PDF files by converting Word or other file formats to PDF. However, improper file format conversion may cause the PDF text misalignment.
• The PDF file uses fonts that don't exist on readers’ computers, which may affect the text layout.
• When copying and pasting text into a PDF file, hidden line breaks or spaces may be included, leading to the text being misaligned.

If text is misaligned, reading experience will be degraded. Moreover, it will make the document look informal. Therefore, you may want to align the text. How to do that? Keep reading to get the guides.

How to Align Text in PDF Easily

How to align text in PDF? You can try MiniTool PDF Editor, a professional PDF editing tool. This tool has many features to help you edit PDFs, including the text alignment features.

In addition, it can also split/merge/compress/encrypt/flatten PDFs, insert/replace/split/extract PDF pages, add highlight/notes/attachments/images/watermarks/signatures to PDF, convert PDF to other file formats and vice versa, etc. It is safe and reliable, and is rated as one of the top PDF editors.

How to align text with this software? Here is the guide:

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Step 1: Download and install MiniTool PDF Editor. Open your PDF file with this software. Now, click the View tab and highlight the Rulers tool, which will assist you in aligning the blocks or paragraphs.

Step 2: Click Edit and then Edit All. You will see many text boxes appear.

Step 3: Click a text box. In this box, select text that you want to align. Then, click Align Left, Center, or Align Right on the ribbon.

Step 4: If you want to align the text block, paragraph, line, or object, you need to change the Edit Mode to Block, Paragraph, Line, or Object first. Then, drag the text box to move its location. In this way, you can align it. In addition, the rulers on the top and left side can help you align the box more accurately.

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How to Align PDF Text for Free

Want to do PDF text alignment for free? You can try this way.

Step 1: Go to MiniTool online PDF converters and choose PDF to Word. Drag and drop your PDF file to the upload box. The file conversion will start automatically. After it is completed, click the Download button to get the Word file.

Step 2: Open this Word file and align the text using Word tools on the ribbon. When all is OK, click File > Save As to save it as a PDF file again.

Fix Misaligned PDF

A misaligned PDF not only includes the PDF text alignment issue, but also the following four ones.

Issue 1. When scanning a document to PDF, the scanned PDF file gets crooked. In this case, deskewing PDF can solve the issue.

Issue 2. When printing a PDF file, the file content is not centered. As a result, the document may not look nice or the content may be cut off. To solve this issue, you can try using MiniTool PDF Editor. Here is the guide:

• Open the PDF file with MiniTool PDF Editor.
• Click the printer icon on the top left section.
• On the pop-up window, choose printing settings that you need. However, make sure the Auto-center page layout option is selected anyway.
• Then, print the PDF and the file content will be located in the center always.

Issue 3. The form fields in PDF are misaligned. In this case, you can use form field properties in Adobe Acrobat to align fields. Here is the guide:

• Double-click the form filed to open Properties and then select the Position tab.
• On this tab, you can use Left, Right, Bottom, and Top options to change the size and location of the selected field. The Width and Height options will change only the size of fields. To relocate fields without changing their dimensions, check Do not change height and width when changing the position.

Issue 4. In designing programs such as Canva, when saving files as PDF, elements are misaligned compared to the original work on screen. The causes and solutions are as follows:

• The PDF is unflattened. The fix is to Flatten PDF before downloading it.
• When you create these layouts, the View setting of the browser is higher than 100%. The fix is to change the browser view to 100% before creating Canva layouts.
• The Chrome browser present the content incorrectly. The fix is using another browser like Edge to download the PDF in the same settings.

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Bottom Line

This post shows you how to do PDF text alignment. It also gives you a way to align PDF text for free. In addition, it explains 4 PDF misalignment cases and offers corresponding solutions.

To align text in PDF, MiniTool PDF Editor is recommended. If you encounter issues when using this software, contact us via [email protected]. We will get back to you as soon as possible.