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Adobe Acrobat Ninja

By : Urszula Witherell
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Adobe Acrobat Ninja

By: Urszula Witherell

Overview of this book

Adobe Acrobat can help you solve a wide variety of problems that crop up when you work with PDF documents on a daily basis. The most common file type for business and communication, this compact portable document format is widely used to collect as well as present information, as well as being equipped with many lesser-known features that can keep your content secure while making it easy to share. From archive features that will keep your documents available for years to come to features related to accessibility, organizing, annotating, editing, and whatever else you use PDFs for, Acrobat has the answer if you know where to look. Designed for professionals who likely already use Adobe Acrobat Pro, this guide introduces many ideas, features, and online services, sorted and organized for you to easily find the topics relevant to your work and requirements. You can jump to any chapter without sifting through prior pages to explore the tools and functions explained through step-by-step instructions and examples. The information in some chapters may build on existing knowledge, but you are not expected to have an advanced level of prior experience. By the end of this book, you’ll have gained a solid understanding of the many capabilities of PDFs and how Acrobat makes it possible to work in a way that you will never miss good old ink and paper.
Table of Contents (16 chapters)

Formatting considerations when creating layout in InDesign

Requirements for accessibility do not demand document design alterations; however, a simple, legible layout is always the best way to make a publication easy to read and easy to convert to a logical document structure as a PDF.

Here are some guidelines to follow:

  • Simplify page layout and learn how to use all properties for each element. For example, do not create a color background box, place a textbox on top, and then place other elements on top of that if they can all become a single story, placed in a frame and formatted using properties. Here is an example:
Figure 10.1 – A streamlined layout using frame and text properties

Figure 10.1 – A streamlined layout using frame and text properties

The desired layout, which looked the same when printed, was accomplished in two ways:

  • On the left: By placing multiple objects on a page
  • On the right: By placing one text frame and using formatting properties for both frame and text
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