How do I send you a copy? when I tried it said that the file size was too big.

Also now I've totally jacked up everything. I tried to import from sketchup, a drawing,
and the background is transparent but the lines are gone, only the shaded portions of the drawing show up.

That worked great for one page, the rest are not responding.

In photo #a before the move notice the blue dot in "Layers" > unique elements
In photo #B after the move still same problem
in photo #C the text page that has a transparent background, notice "Layers" blue dot gone
moved from unique elements to highlight "on every inside page"

I don't really understand the differences or which to lock or unlock

Thank you for your help, I think you are getting close.

Pete

example 1- prior to importing text pdf
ex.2 after

ex 3 after

Unfortunately, I was not as specific as I should have been in my question.

The bounding box is not visible, it is the size of the original page (typically 81/2x 11).

I double checked the stroke box, when that is activated a visible border appears around the original paper size.

The use of layers helps a little but does not eliminate the issue.

The use of RTF does not eliminate problem.

Thanks

Hello,

New to this but having a lot of fun. Using a Mac. 2014 Pro. When I insert all text (pdf) into a Layout drawing, it is surrounded by a bounding box. How can I reduce this box (which covers up other text) with out reducing the text size? This box also limits how close I can get to drawings, covers up borders, etc.

Thanks