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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)

Converting colors and working with Ink Manager

In a perfect world, things happen exactly according to plan. Well, I have not experienced a perfect world yet. And the publishing world is full of surprises. This is where Acrobat comes to the rescue and provides tools to spot potential issues before they become expensive printing problems.

Distiller provides settings before a file is converted in to .pdf. Once a .pdf file is created, potential fixes may need to be applied in Acrobat. One of the most common issues is when a document destined for printing uses RGB color space and swatches are defined as RGB instead of CMYK. I also often run into swatches built in error as spot inks when they clearly should be CMYK.

We will use the Convert Colors feature in Acrobat, where you can permanently convert the color definition in the document. Changes will be applied to the entire document. Here are the steps:

  1. Select Tools | Print Production | Convert Colors to open a dialog box....