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USING ACROBAT X STANDARD

Saving and exporting PDFs

Last updated 10/11/2011

Note: Tags are applied only as part of the conversion process and are discarded after the conversion. This is not a method

for creating tagged PDFs from legacy files.

Generate Images Controls how images are converted. Converted image files are referenced from within XML and

HTML documents.

Use Sub-Folder Specifies the folder in which to store generated images. The default is Images.

Use Prefix Specifies the prefix added to the image file names if you have several versions of the same image file. File

names assigned to images have the format filename_img_#.

Output Format Specifies the final format of images. The default is JPG.

Downsample To Downsamples image files to the specified resolution. If you do not select this option, image files have

the same resolution as in the source file. Image files are never upsampled.

Convert PDFs to Word, RTF, spreadsheets or other formats

Use the Save As command to convert a PDF to Microsoft Word format, or Rich Text Format (RTF), a standard for

exchanging content between text-editing applications. The file you obtain when you export a PDF to Word or RTF is

not equivalent to the source file in the authoring application. Some coding information may be lost in the conversion.

You can also export a PDF to plain text or accessible text. Accessible text follows the reading order preference selected

in the Reading preferences, and includes comments and form fields in its output. Accessible text also includes some

formatting, such as line breaks. Any alternate text in the document tags is used in place of images and figures. Plain

text follows the structure order of text in the document and ignores all artifacts and figure elements in the conversion.

Hard hyphens are preserved, and soft hyphens are removed.

You can also export a PDF to a spreadsheet format for Excel.

1 Choose File > Save As > [Type] > [version], and choose a file format.

2 Click Settings, select the options you want, click OK, and click Save.

Additional resources

For videos and tutorials on saving PDFs to other formats, see these resources:

• Exporting a PDF to Excel: www.acrobatusers.com/tutorials/exporting-pdf-excel

• Converting PDF files to other file formats: www.adobe.com/go/lrvid_012_acrx_en

• Converting scanned PDF files to other file formats: www.adobe.com/go/lrvid_026_acrx_en

• How to save a PDF with Acrobat JavaScript: www.acrobatusers.com/tutorials/how-save-pdf-acrobat-javascript

Conversion options

You can configure conversion options before you save the file. By default, the conversion options specified under

Preferences are used.