Operation Manual
Table Of Contents
- Contents
- Chapter 1: What’s new
- Chapter 2: Workspace
- Workspace basics
- Opening and viewing PDFs
- Navigating PDF pages
- Adjusting PDF views
- Adjust page magnification
- Resize a page to fit the window
- Show a page at actual size
- Change the magnification with zoom tools
- Change the magnification with the Pan & Zoom Window tool
- Change the magnification with the Loupe tool
- Change the magnification by using a page thumbnail
- Change the default magnification
- Display off-screen areas of a magnified page
- Set the page layout and orientation
- Use split-window view
- View a document in multiple windows
- Adjust page magnification
- Grids, guides, and measurements
- Maintaining the software
- Activation and registration
- Adobe Product Improvement Program
- Services and downloads
- Non-English languages
- Chapter 3: Creating PDFs
- Overview of creating PDFs
- Creating simple PDFs with Acrobat
- Scan documents to PDF
- Using the Adobe PDF printer
- Creating PDFs with PDFMaker (Windows)
- Converting web pages to PDF
- Creating PDFs with Acrobat Distiller
- Adobe PDF conversion settings
- Fonts
- Chapter 4: PDF Portfolios and combined PDFs
- PDF Portfolios
- Other options for combining files
- Adding unifying page elements
- Add and edit headers and footers
- Add and edit backgrounds
- Add, replace, or edit a background, with an open document
- Add, replace, or edit a background, with no document open (Windows only)
- Add, replace, or edit a background for component PDFs in a PDF Portfolio
- Update a recently edited background image
- Remove a background from selected pages
- Remove a background from all pages
- Add and edit watermarks
- Crop pages
- Rearranging pages in a PDF
- Chapter 5: Saving and exporting PDFs
- Chapter 6: Collaboration
- File sharing and real-time collaboration
- Preparing for a PDF review
- Starting a review
- Participating in a PDF review
- Tracking and managing PDF reviews
- Commenting
- Annotations and drawing markup tools overview
- Commenting preferences
- Change the look of your comments
- Add a sticky note
- Mark up text with edits
- Stamp a document
- Create a custom stamp
- Add a line, arrow, or shape
- Group and ungroup markups
- Add comments in a text box or callout
- Add an audio comment
- Add comments in a file attachment
- Paste images as comments
- Managing comments
- Importing and exporting comments
- Approval workflows
- Chapter 7: Forms
- Forms basics
- Creating and distributing forms
- About form elements
- Create forms using Acrobat
- Create online forms using FormsCentral
- Enable Reader users to save form data
- Adding JavaScript to forms
- Create form fields
- Lay out form fields on a grid
- Copy a form field
- Select multiple form fields
- Resize and arrange form fields
- About barcodes
- Create, test, and edit barcode fields
- Set form field navigation
- Distribute (send) forms to recipients
- Form fields behavior
- About form field properties
- Modify form field properties
- General tab for form field properties
- Appearance tab for form field properties
- Options tab for form field properties
- Actions tab for form field properties
- Calculate tab for form field properties
- Set the calculation order of form fields
- Signed tab for form field properties
- Format tab for form field properties
- Validation tab for form field properties
- Value tab for form field properties
- Manage custom barcode settings
- Redefine form field property defaults
- Setting action buttons
- Publishing interactive web forms
- Collecting and managing form data
- Filling in forms
- Chapter 8: Security
- Application security
- Content security
- Opening secured documents
- Choosing a security method
- Securing documents with passwords
- Securing documents with certificates
- Certificate security
- Encrypt a PDF or PDF Portfolio with a certificate
- Change encryption settings
- Remove encryption settings
- Sharing certificates with others
- Get certificates from other users
- Associate a certificate with a contact
- Verify information on a certificate
- Delete a certificate from trusted identities
- Securing documents with Adobe LiveCycle Rights Management ES
- Setting up security policies
- Digital IDs
- Removing sensitive content
- Chapter 9: Digital signatures
- About digital signatures
- Comparing ink signatures with digital signatures
- Setting up signing
- Setting up signature validation
- Signing PDFs
- Validating signatures
- Signatures panel overview
- Validate a signature manually
- Validate a timestamp certificate
- View previous versions of a signed document
- Compare versions of a signed document
- Trust a signer’s certificate
- PDF Portfolios and digital signatures
- XML data signatures
- Checking the validity of a signature
- Establish long-term signature validation
- Manage trusted identities
- Chapter 10: Accessibility, tags, and reflow
- Accessibility features
- Checking the accessibility of PDFs
- Reading PDFs with reflow and accessibility features
- Creating accessible PDFs
- Making existing PDFs accessible
- Chapter 11: Editing PDFs
- Page thumbnails and bookmarks
- Links and attachments
- Converted web pages
- Articles
- Text and objects
- Setting up a presentation
- Document properties and metadata
- Layers
- Actions and scripting
- Using Geospatial PDFs
- Chapter 12: Searching and indexing
- Chapter 13: Multimedia and 3D models
- Multimedia in PDFs
- Interacting with 3D models
- Displaying 3D models
- 3D toolbar overview
- Examples of model rendering modes
- Change rendering mode, lighting, projection, and background
- Model Tree overview
- Hide, isolate, and change the appearance of parts
- Create cross sections
- Measure 3D objects
- Measuring preferences
- Change camera properties
- Set 3D views
- 3D preferences
- Comment on 3D designs
- Run a JavaScript
- Chapter 14: Color management
- Chapter 15: Printing
- Chapter 16: Keyboard shortcuts
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USING ACROBAT X STANDARD
Accessibility, tags, and reflow
Last updated 10/11/2011
Set accessibility preferences with the Preferences dialog box
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Set preferences as appropriate for your assistive software and devices in various panels of the Preferences dialog box.
Accessibility preferences
Accessibility preferences in Accessibility panel
Replace Document Colors When this preference is selected, you can choose from a list of contrasting color
combinations for text and background, or you can create your own. These settings correspond to the Use High
Contrast Colors For Document Text option in the Accessibility Setup Assistant.
Always Use Page Layout Style Corresponds to the Override Page Layout Style option in the Accessibility Setup
Assistant.
Always Use Zoom Setting Corresponds to the Override Document Zoom option in the Accessibility Setup Assistant.
Use Document Structure For Tab Order When No Explicit Tab Order Is Specified Improves navigation of form fields
and links in documents that don’t specify a tab order.
Always Display The Keyboard Selection Cursor Select this option if you use a screen magnifier. This preference
corresponds to the Always Display The Keyboard Selection Cursor option in the Accessibility Setup Assistant.
Always Use The System Selection Color When selected, the default selection color (blue) is overridden with a color
that the system specifies.
Show Portfolios In Files Mode When selected, shows PDF Portfolio component files and file details in a list. Files mode
provides a better reading experience for people with disabilities, such as mobility impairments, blindness, and low
vision.
Accessibility preferences in Documents panel
Automatically Save Document Changes To Temporary File Every When deselected, this preference disables the auto-
save action. Each time a PDF is saved, the screen reader or magnifier must reload the document. This preference
corresponds to the Disable Document Auto-Save option in the Accessibility Setup Assistant.
Accessibility preferences in Forms panel
Fields Highlight Color and Required Fields Highlight Color These preferences specify what colors will be used to
highlight fillable form fields. They correspond to the Field Highlight Color and Required Field Highlight Color options
in the Accessibility Setup Assistant.
Auto-Complete Enables Acrobat to automatically offer to complete some entries in form fields so that filling form
fields requires fewer keystrokes. This preference doesn’t correspond to an option in the Accessibility Setup Assistant.
Accessibility preferences in Internet panel
Display PDF In Browser Causes PDFs linked to from web pages to open in the web browser instead of a separate
Acrobat window. Deselect this preference for greater control when navigating a document in a screen reader. This
preference corresponds to the Display PDF Documents In The Web Browser option in the Accessibility Setup
Assistant.
Accessibility preferences in Multimedia panel
• Show Subtitles When Available
• Play Dubbed Audio When Available
• Show Supplemental Text Captions When Available