Editing and Selecting / Compare Two Documents
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At some point when you are working with Adobe Acrobat you might find it necessary to compare two different versions of the same document and analyze these versions for any differences. Well Acrobat gives you a great tool to speed this along. It's found under the tools menu and choose compare two documents. It brings up the compare documents dialog box and in this case the first item here is my currently open document. You don't necessarily have to have a document open. And then asks you to compare it to what and I am going to quick choose and find the other document I want, which is another version of my test question, version 2. So I'll click open and select that. We have a handful of options for how the comparison analysis will take place, page by page visual differences, and if you choose that you have a few levels of sensitivity, very high or very low, I'll stick with a normal and this will look at both text and graphics. You can choose text only or you can choose text including font information so any font information such as style and size changes will be highlighted. I am going to choose page by page visual differences and click ok. And what Acrobat does is it generates another document with the two documents side by side. So here's my new dual page document and the first two pages, they are essentially header information and it tells me what it found. To see where the changes are please scroll down. Now that's pretty straightforward. What Acrobat does is it highlights the areas that are different or have changed and the highlighting is essentially a pencilled type of comment. So if you go to comments tab, you can see there is a list of changes and list of comments, that denote the different changes. I find it more helpful to actually look at my document, so I am going to close my comments tab by clicking on it. And scroll down to see the actual document, so I can see here that what it found were some changes here. The picture in the middle is highlighted because it's moved very slightly. The text here at the very top is also highlighted because in the original it's a hash mark but in the second one it's the word number. And similarly I can see that the q and the a are here but they have been deleted on the second one, and finally the word or is black here but blue in this one, so it has highlighted all the changes in these two documents. word or is black here but blue in this one, so it has highlighted all the changes in these two documents.
Tutorial Information
| Course: | Adobe Acrobat 5 |
| Author: | Andrew J. Hathaway |
| SKU: | 33249 |
| ISBN: | 1930519850 |
| Release Date: | 2001-08-22 |
| Duration: | 7.5 hrs / 117 lessons |
| Work Files: |
Yes |
| Captions: | For Online University members only |
| Compatibility: |
Vista/XP/2000, OS X, Linux QuickTime 7, Flash 8 |
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