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Microsoft Word is the most common source program for generating PDF content. Here are some tips and tricks for producing predictable PDF output.
In a recent AcrobatUsers.com Tech Talk, I described various issues and solutions you can use when creating PDF files. This article describes important issues and includes tricks you can try from that presentation. »
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Placing a 3D model into a PDF file adds another dimension of information (pun intended). Adding a model is only one part of the Acrobat PDF 3D experience.
Last month, I described how to add 3D content to your PDF files via the source document or through Acrobat 9 Pro Extended. Enrich your presentation with specified »
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Just a few years ago, using 3D images and drawings were restricted to high-end, high-powered, high-priced systems running specialized software. Not any more: Acrobat 9 Pro Extended offers tools and methods for incorporating 3D models into PDF files, or even into a Word document or PowerPoint slide. Acrobat 9 Pro Extended is Windows-only.
Imagine using 3D »
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The Acrobat 9 Download Series: Readers of my articles at acrobatusers.com who’d like to read offline at their leisure can now download a PDF in a print-ready format.
Document Basics is the current topic of the month at Acrobatusers.com.
It’s Friday afternoon. You’re nearly ready to deliver a customer project. Then you get a call—can you change »
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The Acrobat 9 Download Series: Readers of my articles at acrobatusers.com who’d like to read offline at their leisure can now download a PDF in a print-ready format.
PDF for the Web & SEO is the current topic of the month at Acrobatusers.com.
There’s been a lot of Internet kerfuffle over the years regarding how to use »
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The Acrobat 9 Download Series: Readers of my articles at acrobatusers.com who’d like to read offline at their leisure can now download a PDF in a print-ready format.
Georegistered PDF is the current topic of the month at Acrobatusers.com.
Acrobat 9 Pro Extended includes PDF mapping, the ability to use geospatial information as a document layer or »
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You don’t have to bookmark text. How about an image? Or a map location? Select the item on the page, or draw a marquee selection around a specific area. Click New Bookmark in the Bookmarks panel’s menu to add the item to the list.
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Initially, a bookmark displays the page that was in view when the bookmark was created, which is the bookmark’s destination. In Acrobat, you can set bookmark destinations as you create each bookmark. However, it is sometimes easier to create a group of bookmarks, and then set the destinations later.
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If Create PDF Tags is selected when you create a PDF from web pages, structure information that corresponds to the HTML structure of the original pages is stored in the PDF. You can use this information to add tagged bookmarks to the file for paragraphs and other items that have HTML elements.
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