Making PDF Files / Making PDF Files
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Well now that you have seen how easy it is to get around a pdf file in Acrobat Reader. How do you create your own pdf files? There are several solutions to this particular conundrum. If you are working on a windows platform and have Acrobat 5, you get something called the pdf maker and this is a little utility, which works in conjunction with Microsoft office suite of Productivity Office software; allows you to easily write out a pdf file from any one of those Microsoft office applications. If you are working with adobe software very often you have a choice to save your document as a pdf file. I have a printer driver type of software called pdf writer which is very similar to pdf maker, it works well in conjunction with things like Microsoft word for fairly simple documents. Acrobat 5 has very a convenient option called open as pdf, and it will convert your file immediately into a pdf file for editing in Acrobat 5. Another cool feature of Acrobat is something called web capture. Web capture will go out, assuming that you are hooked up onto the Internet and whatever URL you ask it to look at, it will begin to convert, that web page and associated pages into a pdf file. This is a great way of archiving web sites or web pages. Adobe has a service on their website called create pdf and you can actually sign up for that and it's a great way of converting, scanned images that you might want to use the OCR Optical Character Reorganization feature to convert scanned images such as maybe a fax and extract editable and stretchable text as a pdf file. However the most important one and the one I'm going to spend a lot of time discussing is using Acrobat distiller. Acrobat distiller takes a raw postscript file and converts it into a pdf file. This is a very powerful tool and works the best way. It is very successful in converting rich, richly designed documents such as a document you might have created in Adobe Indesign, or Quark Express - documents that combine all types of content from text to eps graphics and bitmap graphics, into a postscript file, and then converts that postscript file into a pdf. And we have several different parameters that we can tell Acrobat distiller, to take advantage of, depending on what the file usages is - all the way from designing a pdf to be printed at a high end offset press, or if you designed your pdf to be distributed on the world wide web you'll want to sacrifice image quality in order to make a very small file size. So we have a lot of control using the Acrobat distiller. ile size. So we have a lot of control using the Acrobat distiller.
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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