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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)

Summary

The scanning of printed pages will continue since paper publications, especially older archives, preserve mountains of information that needs to be available to a wider audience. Online distribution requires that PDF files can be searched, opened globally, and available for a very long time. From the very first step of scanning or taking a photo to a final searchable document, this chapter guided you on how to do it to get the best results.

You learned about the different scanning options, how to enhance a page that originated as a bitmap image, and finally, how to make text searchable, and why it is important to optimize a .pdf file.

In the next chapter, we will go through the process of creating PDF files as a final output in a disciplined workflow using Microsoft Office PDFMaker, where fully featured PDFs are produced and exported from fully featured authored files. As you examine the final output, you will enjoy knowing that to accomplish all that, you do not need new tools. You already have them! And it will take no time to do it.