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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)

Adding an alternate text description to images

Adding alt-text tags to images in InDesign during authoring eliminates the need for fixes in Acrobat when a document becomes a .pdf publication. There are three methods to do it:

  • Select a frame containing an image, and from Object | Object Export Options, open a dialog box where you can type the alternate text
  • Select a frame containing an image, and from Object | Object Export Options, open a dialog box where you can choose metadata for the alt-text source
  • Add the setting to choose metadata for the alt-text source in the object style used for anchored frames

We will learn how to use all these methods, as you may encounter different scenarios. Let’s start with the first one.

Typing alternate text manually for each image frame

Here are the steps to add alt-text tags if you only occasionally use some images and volume is not a concern:

  1. Select the image frame and click Object | Object Export Options...