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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)

Customizing PDF output quality using Distiller settings

Acrobat Distiller uses settings to produce the visual components of .pdf files. These settings are selected and used by applications when exporting to a PDF. They are grouped into categories where image resolution, fonts, color, printing device processing, and compliance standards are defined. We will explore these settings next.

Important note

It is worth mentioning that an outdated method of creating .pdf files using Acrobat Distiller involved printing a document to a .ps file and then processing it in Distiller. No such suggestion is made in this book.

The process of exporting to .pdf for both interactivity and press printing has been extensively covered in other chapters. The topics discussed here provide information on how to edit or create presets and save them as a .joboptions file, which is done using Distiller.

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