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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)

Modifying and Editing PDF Files

Authors, graphic designers, layout artists, and other professionals spend countless hours producing publications. Once completed, these documents may be printed directly to a paper printing device, or they may be exported to a .pdf file. Some authoring applications, such as InDesign, provide settings to further optimize the final .pdf file either to fit commercial paper printing needs or to make it meet online distribution standards that allow printing as needed.

At this point, a .pdf file is meant to be a final document. However, there are many instances when changes or improvements still need to be made. Reasons for these changes vary. Authors may provide content late in the production cycle, such as covers for books, or good production practices may have not been followed and the final PDF needs to be enhanced further by adding navigation or accessibility features.

In this chapter, we will learn how to use Acrobat tools to make improvements...