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
Creating PDFs
Last updated 10/11/2011
Note: You can scan both sides of pages even on scanners that do not themselves support two-sided scanning. When Both
Sides is selected, a dialog box appears after the first sides are scanned. You can then reverse the original paper documents
in the tray, and select the Scan Reverse Side (Put Reverse Of Sheets) option in that dialog box. This method produces a
PDF with all pages in the proper sequence.
Color Mode (Windows only) Select a basic color mode (Autodetect, Color, Black and White, or Grayscale) supported
by your scanner. This option is enabled if your Scanner Options are set to use the Acrobat scanning dialog box instead
of the scanner application.
Resolution (Windows only) Select a resolution supported by your scanner. This option is enabled if your Scanner
Options are set to use the Acrobat scanning dialog box instead of the scanner application.
Note: If you select a Color Mode or Resolution option not supported by your scanner, a message appears and your scanner
application window opens. Select different options in the scanner application window.
Paper Size (Windows only) Select a paper size or specify a custom width and height.
Prompt For Scanning More Pages When selected, a dialog box prompting you to scan additional pages appears after
every scanning session.
New PDF Document Creates a new PDF. This option is not available in the Configure Presets dialog box.
Multiple Files Creates multiple files from multiple paper documents. Click More Options, and specify whether to
create a PDF Portfolio of the files, the number of pages for each file, and a filename prefix. These options are not
available in the Configure Presets dialog box.
Append To Existing File Or Portfolio Adds the converted scan to an existing PDF or PDF Portfolio. This option is not
available in the Configure Presets dialog box.
Optimize Scanned PDF Select this option to run the optimization process on the PDF. This option is used to
compresses and filter the images in the scanned PDF.
Small Size/High Quality Drag the slider to set the balance point between file size and quality. Click Options to
customize optimization with specific settings for file compression and filtering.
Make Searchable (Run OCR) Select this option to convert text images in the PDF to searchable and selectable text. This
option applies optical character recognition (OCR) and font and page recognition to the text images. Click Options to
specify settings in the Recognize Text - Settings dialog box. See
“Recognize text in scanned documents” on page 46.
Make PDF/A Compliant Select this option to make the PDF conform to ISO standards for PDF/A-1b. When selected,
only Searchable Image is available in the Recognize Text - Settings dialog box for the PDF Output Style option.
Add Metadata When selected, the Document Properties dialog box appears after scanning. In the Document
Properties dialog box, you can add metadata, or information about the scanned document, to the PDF file. If you are
creating multiple files, you can enter common metadata for all of the files.
Scanner Options dialog box
Data Transfer Method Native Mode transfers in the default mode for your scanner. Memory Mode is automatically
selected for scanning in resolutions over 600 dots per inch (dpi).
User Interface The Hide Scanner’s Native Interface option bypasses the windows and dialog boxes provided by the
scanner manufacturer. Instead, scanning starts directly with the settings specified in the Custom Scan settings.
Invert Black And White Images This option creates positive images from black-and-white negatives, for example.