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
What’s new
Last updated 10/11/2011
You can also access the desktop tools you use most by adding individual items to the customizable Quick Tools toolbar.
(The Quick Tools toolbar replaces the floating toolbars in Acrobat 9.) See
“Workspace basics” on page 4.
Streamlined commenting process Access mark-up tools and view comments from a single, unified Annotations
panel. A read or unread indicator shows which comments you have read and which you have not. Find comments
quickly using the new Filter Comments feature. See
“Managing comments” on page 142.
Read mode Optimize your screen for reading and presentation of PDFs. Menus and panels disappear and a semi-
transparent floating toolbar appears for navigation as needed. See
“View PDFs in Read mode” on page 13.
Scanning enhancements Scan paper documents into PDF and automatically recognize text with improved optical
character recognition (OCR). Text can be copied for reuse in authoring applications or exported into Word and Excel
formats. Reduce file sizes by up to 50%, improve image fidelity, and scan a combination of color and monochrome
documents together with automatic color detection. See
“Scan a paper document to PDF” on page 42.
Search enhancements Find and save a search, then export the search results to a PDF file or to a spreadsheet. See
“Searching PDFs” on page 292.
PDF creation and sharing
PDF Portfolios View PDF Portfolios in newly designed layouts, visual themes, and color palettes. Digitally sign child
documents within a PDF Portfolio. Accessibility support in File mode. See
“PDF Portfolios” on page 83.
Microsoft Windows 7 and Office 2010 Create PDF files from within the most popular Office 2010 applications, as well
as specialized applications such as Microsoft Project and Visio. See
“Convert Microsoft Word, PowerPoint, and Excel
files to PDF” on page 54.
Mozilla Firefox support Convert web pages to PDF, keeping all links intact. See “Convert web pages to PDF in Internet
Explorer and Firefox (Windows)” on page 62.
PDF conversion to Excel and Word Save PDF files as Microsoft Word documents and Excel spreadsheets, retaining the
layout, fonts, formatting, and tables. See
“Convert PDFs to Word, RTF, spreadsheets or other formats” on page 109.
Password strength meter Create better passwords with the password strength meter. See “Add password security” on
page 200
Online forms creation and distribution Create and distribute online forms using your web browser and the Adobe
FormsCentral service. Recipients fill out these forms using any Internet-connected device. See
“Create online forms
using FormsCentral” on page 155.
Document sharing and storing Send and store large documents using services at Acrobat.com. Use online
Workspaces at Acrobat.com to store and share a set of documents with individuals or teams outside your organization.
See
“File sharing and real-time collaboration” on page 114.
Where’s my Acrobat 9 tool?
Most Acrobat 9 menus have moved to a corresponding panel in the Tools, Comment, or Share pane.