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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)

Working with Preflight

PDF as a digital page is very complex. What we see on the screen does not reveal the range of settings contained in the file that are used for processing by various devices at the time of printing. To help analyze the content of a PDF and possibly fix problems, we will work with the Preflight tool.

Here are the steps:

  1. In the Print Production tool, select Preflight. A feature-rich dialog box opens that stays open as long as you need it. Here is a screenshot:
Figure 11.8 – Preflight tool and options

Figure 11.8 – Preflight tool and options

Preflight lists different types of profiles that come with an Acrobat installation. Custom profiles may be added, and existing ones may be edited. Profiles can be shared with others; they can be exported and imported. Some are provided for PDF analysis only and some provide both analysis and a fix. You can identify fixups by the wrench symbol.

The user defines specific values for the profiles after clicking the...