Operation Manual

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USING ACROBAT X STANDARD
Saving and exporting PDFs
Last updated 10/11/2011
Note: Reducing the file size of a digitally signed document removes the signature.
1 Open a single PDF, or select one or more PDFs in a PDF Portfolio.
2 Choose File > Save As > Reduced Size PDF.
3 Select the version compatibility that you need.
If you’re certain that all your users use Acrobat X or Adobe Reader X, limiting compatibility to the latest version can
further reduce file size.
Note: If you select Acrobat 4.0 And Later, and the document contains transparency, the conversion will fail.
4 (Optional) To apply the same settings to multiple files, click Apply To Multiple, and add the files. Click OK, then
in the Output Options dialog box, specify your folder and filename preferences.
Note: The Apply To Multiple button is not available in PDF Portfolios.
More Help topics
“Balancing PDF file size and quality” on page 39
Exporting PDFs to other file formats
Exporting PDFs
You can export or convert one or more PDFs to several different file formats, and then open and use those files in other
applications. The available formats include both text and image formats. To make a PDF compatible with earlier
versions of Adobe Acrobat and Reader, you can resave the PDF to an earlier PDF version. See video
Converting
Scanned PDF Files to Other File Formats.
When you save a PDF in an image format, each page is saved as a separate file.
Note: You cannot export PDF Portfolios, or PDFs within them, to other file formats.
Export a single PDF
1 Choose File > Save As > [Type] > [version], and choose a file format.
2 Click Settings to set conversion options. (If the Settings button is unavailable, the format you selected has no
options.) Click OK to apply the settings. Conversion settings can also be edited in the Convert From PDF
Preferences.
Note: These conversion settings are stored separately from the settings used with the Export All Images command.
3 Click Save to export the PDF to the selected file format.
By default, the source filename is used with the new extension, and the exported file is saved in the same folder as the
source file.
File format options
When you export PDFs to different file formats using the Save As command, each file format includes unique
conversion settings.
If you want to use the same settings every time you convert PDFs to a particular format, specify those settings in the
Preferences dialog box. In the Convert From PDF panel, select a file format from the list and click Edit Settings. (Click
the Default button at any time to revert to the default settings.)