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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)

Understanding PDFMaker

To include the most relevant interactive features in a .pdf file, it is important to build the source file in an authoring application correctly and then preserve those features on exporting to PDF. We will begin by understanding the conversion process in PDFMaker.

PDFMaker is an engine that creates .pdf files while preserving interactive features built into a document in the authoring software. PDFMaker is part of the Acrobat Professional and Standard installations. It is not installed with the free Acrobat Reader.

All MS Office applications, such as PowerPoint, Excel, and Word, display an Acrobat tab in the ribbon with buttons that open dialog boxes with PDF settings:

Figure 3.2 – Acrobat ribbon options in MS Word

Figure 3.2 – Acrobat ribbon options in MS Word

PDFMaker changed over time

In MS Office 2003 and earlier, PDFMaker used Adobe PDF Printer to create a PostScript file. Then, the Adobe PDF printer interfaced with the Adobe Acrobat Distiller application...