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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 Microsoft Office Files to Adobe PDF Using PDFMaker

Most .pdf files originate from an application where the content editing and layout setting are done. In this chapter, we will focus on Microsoft (MS) Office for Windows, and specifically MS Word, since it is the most common tool used for adding, editing, and formatting text, placing charts and photos, inserting tables, providing page navigation through headers and footers, and providing other visual elements that make a completed publication. As the last step, a PDF output is created.

We will explore how different choices made during this process will affect the code and, therefore, features of the final PDF. We’ll cover the following topics in this chapter:

  • From authoring content to PDF output
  • Understanding PDFMaker (Windows only)
  • Evaluating content prepared for PDF conversion
  • Testing and comparing converted PDF files

Please note that the authoring and PDF export options in Adobe InDesign...