Operation Manual

USING ACROBAT 9 STANDARD

Creating PDFs

Last updated 9/30/2011

Create PDF/A Compliant PDF File Creates the PDF so that it conforms to this ISO standard for long-term preservation

of electronic documents. (In the Microsoft Publisher application alone, PDFMaker does not support the PDF/A

standard.)

Note: When Conversion Settings are opened from within Word, Excel, or PowerPoint, this option specifies PDF/A 1-

a:2005. When opened from within Access, it specifies PDF/A 1-b:2005.

Security tab of the Conversion Settings

The settings available for PDFMaker depend on the application in which you’re using PDFMaker.

Require A Password To Open The Document When selected, makes the Document Open Password option available,

where you enter a password that users must use to open the document.

Restrict Editing And Printing Of The Document When selected, makes the other Permissions options available.

Change Permissions Password Specifies a password you set that users must use in order to do any allowable printing

or editing.

Printing Allowed Specifies whether users who use the Permissions Password can print the document and at what

resolution.

Changes Allowed Specifies what kind of changes users who use the Permissions Password can make.

Enable Copying Of Text, Images, And Other Contents Prevents or allows users from copying from the PDF.

Enable Text Access For Screen Reader Devices For The Visually Impaired Prevents or allows screen reader devices to

read text. (Selected by default.)

Enable Plaintext Metadata Specifies whether the search engine can read the document metadata. Available only when

the PDF-compatibility is set to Acrobat 6.0 (PDF 1.5) or later.

Convert Microsoft Word, PowerPoint, and Excel files to PDF

When creating a PDF from Microsoft Word, PowerPoint, or Excel, you can set conversion options for the current file.

You can also select a range of content in the file to convert. The conversion options that you can set in the following

steps are some of the most commonly used settings from the Acrobat PDFMaker dialog box. Any changes you make

to the conversion options apply to the current conversion only.

For tips on converting Word documents to PDFs, see Troubleshooting PDF-creation issues in Microsoft Word at

www.acrobatusers.com/tutorials/troubleshooting-pdf-creation-issues-microsoft-word.