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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)

From authoring content to PDF output

Stories, articles, and news published online and on paper all originate with someone typing text. Formatting the text can be done automatically, as in books and other high-volume publications, or manually by an individual writer, editor, or graphic designer. Images and charts may be added and then organized on pages in the desired layout. We refer to this stage in a document production process as authoring.

Once authoring is completed, the conversion to PDF begins. Selecting options such as Create PDF or Save as PDF launches a PDF conversion engine that produces a digital page as a result. The settings selected by the user will convert elements of the layout and other building blocks used in the authoring software during document production to corresponding properties in the PDF and features accessed in Acrobat. For example, MS Word comments are converted to PDF notes and formatting styles may be used to create PDF bookmarks and accessibility...