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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)

Creating watermarks

Watermarks have a surprisingly long history. They have been used since the 13th century, only on paper at that time. A mark of varied thickness was created while the paper was still wet, which is why it is called a watermark. In the digital world, watermarks refer to transparent images or text placed over page content, often to alert readers to a specific status of the publication. Version revision, confidential information, and copyright protection are among the uses of watermarks.

We will now step through the process of creating watermarks in a .pdf document:

  1. Click the Watermark dropdown from the Edit PDF tool.
  2. Select Add… to open another large dialog box. Acrobat has many of those.
Figure 4.23 – Add Watermark dialog box and options

Figure 4.23 – Add Watermark dialog box and options

Take some time to look through the options:

  • You can add typed text or place an image
  • The text can be formatted with fonts, color, and alignment
  • The font...