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ARTS PDF Aerialist Professional Version 1.
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ARTS PDF Aerialist Professional User Guide Contents Contents 1. INTRODUCTION ...........................................................................7 2. SETUP..........................................................................................8 2.1. 2.2. 2.3. 2.4. 2.5. 3. System Requirements.......................................................................... 8 Installation......................................................................................... 8 Activation .............
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ARTS PDF Aerialist Professional User Guide Contents 3.6.3. Importing Tools........................................................................... 38 3.6.4. Bookmarking in Batch .................................................................. 38 3.6.5. Splitting in Batch ......................................................................... 39 3.6.6. Managing Links in Batch ............................................................... 40 3.6.7. Stamping in Batch ..................................
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ARTS PDF Aerialist Professional User Guide Contents 5.4.1. Find Options ............................................................................... 85 5.4.2. Replace Options .......................................................................... 85 5.4.3. Using Text Masking...................................................................... 86 5.5. Building Bookmarks........................................................................... 87 5.5.1. Creating Bookmarks.............................
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ARTS PDF Aerialist Professional User Guide Contents 7. LINKS ...................................................................................... 121 7.1. Overview ........................................................................................121 7.2. Using Links .....................................................................................122 7.3. Link Checking ..................................................................................123 7.3.1. Show Dead Link Toolbar ............
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ARTS PDF Aerialist Professional User Guide Contents 8.2.8. The 8.2.9. The 8.2.10. The 8.3. Enfocus “Image Tools” Window ..........................................................162 “Image Editor” Window .........................................................170 “Document Tools” Window .....................................................173 Certified PDF™.....................................................................175 9. LAYERS ..................................................................
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ARTS PDF Aerialist Professional User Guide Introduction 1. Introduction ARTS PDF Aerialist Professional takes Acrobat to the next level with its advanced tools for splitting, merging, stamping, bookmarks, hyperlinks and process automation. Suitable for government agencies and industries - including legal, finance, pharmaceutical, IT and publishing - ARTS PDF Aerialist Professional helps users efficiently prepare electronic documents for exchange, archives, submission and publishing.
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ARTS PDF Aerialist Professional User Guide Setup 2. Setup 2.1. System Requirements Windows • • • • • • • • Intel® Pentium® processor or equivalent For Acrobat 5.0 users: Microsoft Windows 98 SE, ME, Microsoft® Windows NT® Workstation 4.0 with Service Pack 6, Windows® 2000 with Service Pack 2, Windows XP Professional or Home Edition, or Windows XP Tablet PC Edition For Acrobat 6.0 users: Microsoft Windows 98 SE, Microsoft® Windows NT® Workstation 4.
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ARTS PDF Aerialist Professional User Guide Setup 4. Navigate to ARTS PDF Aerialist Professional. 5. Click install. 6. Follow the prompts to install ARTS PDF Aerialist Professional. Macintosh (.hqx) If you 1. 2. 3. 4. downloaded ARTS PDF Aerialist Professional, to install: Verify that Adobe Acrobat is not running. Decompress the distribution file provided. Execute the installation file. Follow the prompts to install ARTS PDF Aerialist Professional. Windows (CD-ROM) To install from a CD-ROM: 1.
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ARTS PDF Aerialist Professional User Guide Setup 2.4. Registration ARTS PDF provide the option of registering your copy of ARTS PDF Aerialist Professional online. Online registration allows you to protect your serial number. In the event you lose or misplace your serial, we can locate and provide your serial to you on request. Registered customers will also receive important upgrade information and notification of product updates. 1.
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ARTS PDF Aerialist Professional User Guide Setup 3. Delete the ARTS PDF Aerialist Professional files. Windows To uninstall on a Windows platform: 1. Verify that Adobe Acrobat is not running. 2. Click Start > Settings > Control Panel. 3. Open Add/Remove Programs. 4. Select ‘ARTS PDF Aerialist Professional 1.2’ from the menu. 5. Click ‘Add/Remove’.
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ARTS PDF Aerialist Professional User Guide Productivity 3. Productivity 3.1. Overview The Productivity feature set can be used to create customizable tools and toolbars. ARTS PDF Aerialist Professional comes with more than 50 predefined tools on 4 different toolbars. In addition to these timesaving tools, you can create your own custom tools and toolbars -- giving you quick access to your predefined tasks and shortcuts -- and lets you export and share them with other users.
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ARTS PDF Aerialist Professional User Guide Productivity 3.2. Using Productivity The Productivity feature has a main toolbar button called the 'Toolbar Manager'. See 'The Toolbar Manager' section. Using the Toolbar Manager you can create numerous toolbars 3. Each toolbar will have its own tool manager button to add, edit or remove tools, it is known as the 'Add or Remove Tool' button. See 'Add or Remove Tool - The Tool Manager' section.
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ARTS PDF Aerialist Professional User Guide Productivity 3.3. The Toolbar Manager The Toolbar Manager lets you to create, edit or delete customized toolbars. Create your own toolbar to contain frequently used tools and efficiently perform a range of operations to complete a specific work task. Figure 2.
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ARTS PDF Aerialist Professional User Guide Productivity Alternatively, go to ‘Plug-Ins > ARTS PDF Aerialist Professional > Productivity > Toolbar Manager’. Figure 4. 3.3.1. Accessing ‘Toolbar Manager’ in the Acrobat menu bar Creating or Renaming Toolbars To create a new toolbar or to rename an existing toolbar: 1. Open the 'Toolbar Manager'. 2. Click ‘New’ or ‘Rename’. 3. Enter a new toolbar name. 4. Click ‘OK’ to accept the changes. 5. Restart Acrobat. 3.3.2.
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ARTS PDF Aerialist Professional User Guide Productivity Figure 5. 3.3.3.1. Manage Tools Copying Toolbar Buttons To copy a tool to another toolbar: 1. Open the 'Toolbar Manager' and click on the 'Manage Tools' button. 2. In the list on the left, select the tool button you wish to copy. 3. In the list on the right, select the toolbar where the copied tool button will be placed. 4. Click ‘Copy>>‘ to copy the tool button (on the left list) to the toolbar (on the right list). 5.
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ARTS PDF Aerialist Professional User Guide Productivity 3.3.3.3. Removing Toolbar Buttons To remove a tool from a toolbar: 1. Open the 'Toolbar Manager' and click on the 'Manage Tools' button. 2. In the list on the left, select the tool button you wish to move. 3. Click ‘Remove’. 4. If it is successfully removed, the tool button will no longer appear under the toolbar in the list on the left. To remove all tools from a toolbar: 1. Open the 'Toolbar Manager' and click on the 'Manage Tools' button. 2.
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ARTS PDF Aerialist Professional User Guide Productivity 3.3.5.2. Exporting Toolbars To save or export your toolbar: 1. Open the ‘Toolbar Manager’ dialog. 2. Select the toolbar you wish to export and click the 'Export Toolbar' button. 3. Browse to the location of the toolbar/s you wish to import. 4. Optionally, rename the toolbar file. 5. Click 'Save' to export the toolbar.
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ARTS PDF Aerialist Professional User Guide Productivity 3.4. Add or Remove Tool – The Tool Manager The 'Add or Remove Tool' enables you to manage tools on a particular toolbar. Not only can you add or remove tools but you can also edit the tool icon, menu text, tool tip and action performed. Figure 6. Add or Remove Tool – The Tools Manager To manage your tools on a toolbar, click on the ‘Add or Remove Tool’ button. Figure 7.
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ARTS PDF Aerialist Professional User Guide Productivity Figure 8.
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ARTS PDF Aerialist Professional User Guide Productivity 3.4.1. Creating or Editing Tools Figure 9. Edit Tool Properties To create or edit a toolbar: 1. On the toolbar, click on the ‘Add or Remove Tool’ button to view the list of tools. 2. Click ‘New’ or ‘Edit’. 3. Enter the tool properties. 4. Click ‘OK’ to save the changes. 3.4.1.1. Naming and Labeling Toolbar Buttons There • • • is one name and two labels for each tool. Name - The name of the actual tool.
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ARTS PDF Aerialist Professional User Guide Productivity 3.4.1.2. Selecting and Editing Toolbar Button Images 1. Click ‘Select’, and then select from the range of images available. 2. Optionally, modify the button image by clicking ‘Edit’. Figure 10. 3.4.1.3. Showing and Hiding Toolbar Buttons • • 3.4.1.4. Select a tool icon image Select the ‘Show Tool’ check box to show the tool. Turn the ‘Show Tool’ check box off to hide the buttons from the toolbar.
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ARTS PDF Aerialist Professional User Guide Productivity 3.4.1.5. Adding and Removing Tool Commands To add a command: 1. Select the command you wish to add using the list on the left. 2. Click ‘Add >>‘ to add this command to your tool. 3. If it is successfully added, the command will appear in the list on the right. To remove a command: 1. Select the command you wish to remove using the list on the right. 2. Click ‘<
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ARTS PDF Aerialist Professional User Guide Productivity 3.4.3. Importing and Exporting Tools With the import and export tools feature you can save a copy of your tools to share with other users. Similar to the export toolbars feature, exported tools are embedded into PDF files making them easy to distribute. The PDF file will store the tool's name, menu item, tooltip, icon and commands. To load your saved tool, simply import the PDF file. 3.4.3.1. Importing Tools To load or import your tool: 1.
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ARTS PDF Aerialist Professional User Guide Productivity 3.4.4. Reordering Tools 1. On the toolbar, click on the ‘Add or Remove Tool’ button to view the list of tools. 2. Select the tool that you wish to reorder. 3. Click the ‘Move Up’ button to move it further up the toolbar, or the ‘Move Down’ button to move it down. 4. Click ‘OK’. Figure 11.
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ARTS PDF Aerialist Professional User Guide Productivity 3.5. Productivity Tutorials Figure 12. Example custom toolbar The Productivity feature set contains a number of handy tools, and it also allows you to create customizable toolbars. Using its Tools Editor, you can create toolbar buttons that perform Acrobat commands like Execute JavaScript, Execute Menu Item, PDF Consultant, etc.
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ARTS PDF Aerialist Professional User Guide Productivity 3.5.2. Using the Menu Item Execute Command The ‘Menu Item Execute’ command allows you to select and make any command from a menu item into a toolbar button. It's very useful for giving fast access to regularly used commands. 1. If you don’t have an existing customized toolbar, create or import a toolbar using the ‘Toolbar Manager’. 2. On the customizable toolbar, click the ‘Add or Remove Tools’ button toolbar.
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ARTS PDF Aerialist Professional User Guide Productivity 3.5.3. Using the Batch Sequence Execute Command Acrobat 5.0 lets you create, edit, rename, and delete batch sequences that can be applied to groups of PDFs. These Batch Sequences can be added to your customized toolbar by using the ‘Batch Sequence Execute’ command 4. 1. If you don’t have an existing customized toolbar, create or import a toolbar using the ‘Toolbar Manager’. 2.
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ARTS PDF Aerialist Professional User Guide Productivity 3.5.4. Using the World Wide Web Link Command The ‘World Wide Web’ command allows you to make Web URIs into toolbar buttons. It's very useful for giving fast access to regularly visited, related Web pages. 1. If you don’t have an existing customized toolbar, create or import a toolbar using the ‘Toolbar Manager’. 2. On the customizable toolbar, click the ‘Add or Remove Tools’ button toolbar.
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ARTS PDF Aerialist Professional User Guide Productivity 3.5.5. Using the Select Tool button Command The 'Select Tool button' command allows you to select tools from existing toolbars to make into a toolbar button. You can even use toolbar buttons of existing Acrobat toolbars; place it onto your customized toolbar and assign it a new icon, menu text and tooltip. This is a useful feature when creating your own toolbar of frequently used toolbar buttons. 1.
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ARTS PDF Aerialist Professional User Guide Productivity 3.5.6. Using Bookmark Commands To create a Bookmark function toolbar button with the Productivity feature, follow the following steps: 1. In Acrobat, click the Add/Remove Tools button on the toolbar, or use the menu system: ‘Plug-ins > ARTS PDF Aerialist Professional > Productivity > toolbar name > Add or Remove Tool’. 2. In the dialog box, click the “New” button. This will open up the Edit Tool Properties dialog. Figure 16.
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ARTS PDF Aerialist Professional User Guide Productivity Note: Like Acrobat’s Batch Processing function, you cannot operate any other functions whilst in the editing mode. Therefore when using Build Bookmarks function it is best to have already created and saved (Exported) a Build Bookmarks profile. Then when you are creating your toolbar button, you can simply Import the saved profile. 5. Once you have entered all the details required for your tool click ‘OK’.
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ARTS PDF Aerialist Professional User Guide Productivity 3. Enter in the name and other details of the tool; select a button image, etc. The bottom left-hand side of the dialog contains the list of commands available. Scroll down the list until you reach the Link commands. Select the desired function and click “Add”. 4. The selected function’s dialog will now appear. Enter the properties you wish to set for the command and then click ‘OK’.
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ARTS PDF Aerialist Professional User Guide Productivity Figure 18. Creating a Stamp toolbar button 3. Enter in the name and other details of the tool; select a button image, etc. The bottom left-hand side of the dialog contains the list of commands available. Scroll down the list to select the ‘Stamp Document’ function and click “Add”. 4. The selected function’s dialog will now appear. Enter the properties you wish to set for the command and then click ‘OK’.
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ARTS PDF Aerialist Professional User Guide Productivity 3.6. Batch Processing Batch Processing allows you to perform Split, Merge, Bookmarks, Image, Layers, Links, Stamp and numerous Acrobat functions across multiple files or folders automatically. The process of running a Batch Process involves adding commands to a sequence. When the sequence is executed, these commands are applied to the document.
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ARTS PDF Aerialist Professional User Guide Productivity Figure 19. Adding commands to a sequence 6. Click “OK” to accept the changes. 7. The new sequence will be listed in the Create/Edit Sequences dialog. Predefined Acrobat sequences will be in blue. Sequences created with ARTS PDF’s Batch Processing feature will be in yellow. Figure 20.
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ARTS PDF Aerialist Professional User Guide Productivity 3.6.2. Running a Sequence The Batch Processing feature allows you to run a sequence over a folder of files. There are also options available to sort the file order and include subfolders. To run a sequence, follow these steps: 1. Open Adobe Acrobat. 2. From the menu bar, go to ‘Plug-ins> ARTS PDF Aerialist Professional > Productivity > Batch Processing > Execute Sequence’ to open the Execute Sequence dialog. 3.
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ARTS PDF Aerialist Professional User Guide Productivity 3.6.3. • Overwrite if file exists Overwrites any existing file that has the same filename as the output file. If not selected, an underscore and a number will be appended to the output filename e.g. _1, _2, _3 etc. • Optimize for fast web view Optimizes the PDF so when downloading the document from a web server it will be downloaded a page-at-a-time.
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ARTS PDF Aerialist Professional User Guide Productivity Note: You can add more than one function to a single batch sequence – for instance, you could create a batch sequence that deleted all bookmarks before adding new ones. You can also import saved bookmark profiles in both the Add and Build Bookmark functions, using the “Import” command. 6. Click “Edit” to open up the Bookmark function’s dialog. Once you have supplied the details to the function, click “OK”. 7.
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ARTS PDF Aerialist Professional User Guide Productivity 3.6.6. Managing Links in Batch To create a sequence of commands and execute Link functions in a batch process, follow these steps: 1. Open Adobe Acrobat. 2. From the menu bar, go to ‘Plug-ins> ARTS PDF Aerialist Professional > Productivity > Batch Processing > Create/Edit Sequence’ to open the Create/Edit Sequence dialog. 3. Click “New Sequence”. You will now be taken to the Edit Sequence dialog. 4. Type in a meaningful name for the new sequence. 5.
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ARTS PDF Aerialist Professional User Guide Productivity 8. Select the sequence you have just created and click “Run Sequence”. You will now be taken to the Execute Sequence dialog. 9. For ‘Source Folder’, select the folder of files to run the sequence. 10. For ‘Output Folder’, select the output location of the processed files. 11. Set any additional options you wish to perform and then click “OK” to begin processing the files.
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ARTS PDF Aerialist Professional User Guide Productivity 3.7. Watched Folders The Watched Folders feature allows you to automate the process of executing a sequence. It scans a folder for PDF documents and then automatically runs a sequence of commands on the documents found. The numerous commands available enable you to execute multiple ARTS PDF and Adobe Acrobat functions in a single sequence.
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ARTS PDF Aerialist Professional User Guide Productivity To create a watched folder: 1. Open Adobe Acrobat. 2. From the menu bar, go to ‘Plug-ins> ARTS PDF Aerialist Professional > Productivity > Batch Processing > Watched Folders’ to open the Watched Folders dialog. 3. Click “New”. You will now be taken to the Edit Watched Folder dialog. 4. For Sequence, select the name of the sequence you wish to execute. 5.
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ARTS PDF Aerialist Professional User Guide Productivity 3.7.2. Running a Watched Folder To run a watched folder: 1. Open Adobe Acrobat. 2. From the menu bar, go to ‘Plug-ins> ARTS PDF Aerialist Professional > Productivity > Batch Processing > Watched Folders’ to open the Watched Folders dialog. 3. If there is no watched folder listed then create one (see the section ‘Creating a Watched Folder’ on how to create a watched folder). 4. Ensure the watched folder is enabled before starting it.
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ARTS PDF Aerialist Professional User Guide Productivity 3.8. Configuring Productivity Preferences This feature allows users to add 3rd party plug-in features as commands (if applicable). However, as this is a relatively involved process, it is not advised to use this feature, unless specifically advised to do so by ARTS PDF Technical Support, techsupport@artspdf.com. Figure 21.
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ARTS PDF Aerialist Professional User Guide Productivity 3.9. Index of Toolbars and Tools The Productivity feature comes with more than 50 tools on 4 standard toolbars: • Basic • Print • Manage • Developer These toolbars are stored in the ‘Toolbars’ folder within the ARTS PDF Tools directory. The default location for this folder may vary depending on where Acrobat is installed. On Windows, for example, it may be installed under ‘C:\Program Files\Adobe\Acrobat 6.0\Acrobat\Plug_ins\ARTS PDF Tools\’.
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ARTS PDF Aerialist Professional User Guide Productivity Check Spelling Scans PDF file for spelling mistakes, underlining potential mistakes and suggesting corrections in a comment for each. Expand/Collapse Bookmarks Expands and collapses all bookmarks in the bookmark palette. Expands to show all bookmarks, including subtopics. Collapses to show only the first level of bookmarks. Apply a Stamp to All Pages Applies a stamp, selected by the user, to all pages.
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ARTS PDF Aerialist Professional User Guide Productivity 3.9.2. Developer Toolbar Open JavaScript Console Opens the JavaScript console. Document JavaScript Opens JavaScript Functions dialog box. Edit All JavaScripts Extracts all JavaScripts into a single file for simplified editing. New Letter Doc Creates a new, one-page Letter document. New A4 Doc Creates a new, one-page A4 document. New Custom Document Creates a blank, one-page PDF according to the size (in points) you specify.
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ARTS PDF Aerialist Professional User Guide Productivity Align Top Aligns selected form fields along their top edge. Acrobat 5 only. Align Vertically Aligns selected form fields along a vertical edge. Acrobat 5 only. Center Both Centers selected form fields both horizontally and vertically. Acrobat 5 only. Center Horizontally Centers selected form fields horizontally. Acrobat 5 only. Center Vertically Centers selected form fields vertically. Acrobat 5 only.
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ARTS PDF Aerialist Professional User Guide Productivity 3.9.3. Manage Toolbar Roman Number Pages Numbers all pages in the document with Roman Numerals. Rotate Pages 90 degrees Rotates all pages in the active document by 90 degrees. Delete Pages Deletes pages according to the page range you predefine. Flatten Document Flattens all interactive elements on the entire document. Planet PDF Forum Takes user to Planet PDF Forum Web site. The discussion forum for Adobe Acrobat and PDF users.
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ARTS PDF Aerialist Professional User Guide Productivity Read Page Uses text-to-speech software (when installed) to read aloud text from current page. Stop Reading Stops the Read Page command from reading aloud the current page. Pause Reading Pauses the Read Page command. Zoom to 150% Magnifies the view to exactly 150%. Zoom to 200% Magnifies the view to exactly 200%.
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ARTS PDF Aerialist Professional User Guide Productivity 3.9.4. Print Toolbar Print Current Page Prints the current page to the default printer. Print Odd Pages Prints all odd pages of the open PDF to the default printer. Print Even Pages Prints all even pages of the open PDF to the default printer. Crop Pages by 1 inch Crops all pages in the active document by 1 inch.
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ARTS PDF Aerialist Professional User Guide Productivity View Document Fonts Opens the Document Fonts dialog box to view fonts and run the List All Fonts command. Acrobat 5 only. Zoom to 100% Magnifies the view to exactly 100%.
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ARTS PDF Aerialist Professional User Guide Content Assembly 4. Content Assembly 4.1. Overview The Content Assembly feature is for splitting and merging batches of PDF files. The split functionality lets you split one or more PDF files based on page groups, page ranges, bookmarks and page marks. The merge functionality lets you quickly sort and then combine a collection of files into a PDF document.
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ARTS PDF Aerialist Professional User Guide Content Assembly 4.2. Using Content Assembly Content Assembly consists of a collection of splitting methods and one merging function: Split into files of n pages, Split by page marks, Split by bookmarks, Split by page range, and Merge files/folder. Split File Add / Edit Page Marks Remove Marks View/Edit Marks Merge Files Import Page Marks Figure 22. The Content Assembly toolbar buttons Figure 23.
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ARTS PDF Aerialist Professional User Guide Content Assembly 4.3. Splitting PDF files The Content Assembly feature offers a rich set of methods for extracting pages from a PDF file to separate files.
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ARTS PDF Aerialist Professional User Guide Content Assembly 4.3.1. Split into files of n pages This method splits the open PDF document into a series of files, which contain ‘n’ pages in each file. Figure 25. Split into pages To split into ‘n’ pages: 1. 2. 3. 4. Select and open the source PDF file to be split. Select ‘Split PDF Into files of’ by checking on the radio button. Enter the number of pages in which to split the PDF file.
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ARTS PDF Aerialist Professional User Guide Content Assembly 4.3.2. Split by page marks Using the Add Page Marks feature, add a page mark to pages in the document. Each page mark indicates the start of a new file when the document is split. When splitting by page marks, all subsequent pages will be added to the new PDF until the next page mark or the end of the file is reached. Page marks are added using the Add/Edit Page Mark feature. Figure 26. Split by page mark To split by page marks: 1.
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ARTS PDF Aerialist Professional User Guide Content Assembly Figure 27. 4.3.2.2. Add / Edit Page Mark Dialog Box. Removing page marks To remove all of the page marks within a document: 1. Choose ‘Plug Ins > ARTS PDF Aerialist Professional > Content Assembly > Remove Marks’ from Acrobat’s Plug-ins menu. 2. Alternatively Click on the Remove Marks tool in the ARTS PDF Aerialist Professional toolbar. 3. This prompts to confirm if the page marks should be removed.
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ARTS PDF Aerialist Professional User Guide Content Assembly 4.3.2.3. Viewing / editing page marks To view and edit a list of all marked pages within a document: 1. Choose ‘Plug Ins > ARTS PDF Aerialist Professional > Content Assembly > View/Edit Marks’ from the Acrobat menu. 2. Alternatively check on the View/Edit Marks button from the ARTS PDF Aerialist Professional toolbar. 3. Edit a Page Mark a. Highlight the page mark you want to edit by checking on the page mark in the dialog box as shown below. b.
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ARTS PDF Aerialist Professional User Guide Content Assembly 4.3.2.4. Exporting page marks This feature allows you to export page mark information into a tab delimited text file. You can store the text file and apply your page mark settings onto a PDF document by exporting the file. The tab delimited file logs information for all the page marks present in the document. The data logged in the text file includes: • • • • • • Page Number: The page number of the start of the fragment.
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ARTS PDF Aerialist Professional User Guide Content Assembly 4.3.3. Split by bookmarks This method will split a PDF file by its bookmarks. Each page that is bookmarked will be the start of a new PDF, and the title of the bookmark will be used as the name of the file. All subsequent pages will be added to the new PDF stopping at the next bookmarked page. You will be given a chance to choose the level of bookmarks to use in the Split function. Figure 29. Split by bookmarks To split by bookmarks: 1. 2. 3.
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ARTS PDF Aerialist Professional User Guide Content Assembly 4.3.4. Split by page range This method of splitting will split a PDF file into smaller PDF files containing one or more pages in the destination folder specified by the user. Figure 30. Split by page range To split by page range: 1. Select and open the source PDF file to be split. 2. Select Split PDF ‘by page range’. 3. Select the destination folder where the PDF files will be stored following splitting.
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ARTS PDF Aerialist Professional User Guide Content Assembly Parameter (Semicolon) “;” Function File separator (Hyphen) “-“ From/To (Comma) “,” Page separator “odd” (+ only) Odd page “even” (+ only) Even page Example “1-20; 21-40” would create two new PDFs – one containing pages 120, the other containing pages 21-40. “1-5” would extract pages 1 through 5 into a new PDF. “5-1” would extract pages 5 through 1 into a new PDF (reverse order is + only).
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ARTS PDF Aerialist Professional User Guide Content Assembly 4.3.5. General splitting options Figure 31. General Options Enable Fast Web View Restructures the PDF file so that it can be served a page-at-a-time over the Web. This is referred to as Fast Web View within Adobe Acrobat. Update Navigational Elements This is a Plus only feature that updates all of the bookmarks, links and named destinations such that they remain connected to the proper page.
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ARTS PDF Aerialist Professional User Guide Content Assembly Bookmarks After processing, the following options can be applied to bookmarks within the target files: • Expand all • Collapse all • Expand local This advanced option will expand the bookmarks that link to pages within each split file. • Do not change 4.3.6. Destination folder and filename settings The filename for the files resulting from the split is constructed by adding a changing suffix to a specified base filename.
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ARTS PDF Aerialist Professional User Guide Content Assembly 4.4. Merging Files The Merge function allows you to merge a set of files together into a single PDF document. You can select either all pages, or a page range from a document you wish to merge, as well as reordering the files as required. It supports a number of file types: • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • Adobe PDF Files (*.pdf) AutoCAD (*.dwg, *.dwt) BMP (*.bmp, *.rle, *.dib) Compuserve GIF (*.gif) JPEG (*.jp,*.jpeg, *.jpe) JPEG2000 (*.jpf, *.
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ARTS PDF Aerialist Professional User Guide Content Assembly 4.4.1. Adding Files or Folders To add files or folders and merge the files into one PDF document: 1. Choose ‘Plug-Ins > ARTS PDF Aerialist Professional > Content Assembly > Merge Files’ from Acrobat’s Plug-in menu. 2. Alternatively select the ‘Merge File’ tool from the ARTS PDF Aerialist Professional toolbar. 3. Browse and add the files that you want to merge.
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ARTS PDF Aerialist Professional User Guide Content Assembly The Merge Options dialog allows you to specify the pages of the file you want added to the final merged file. You can set which pages to merge by selecting a predefined range: • All pages • Odd pages • Even pages • Last page • First page Alternatively, you can define the pages (using hyphens and commas to separate the pages) i.e. 2, 6, 10-20; or by page range from page 1 to 6 for example.
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ARTS PDF Aerialist Professional User Guide Content Assembly The structure of a merge within a control file is shown below. Merging a range of pages from a file: -f [full pathname of the output merge file] [page range] [tab] [full pathname of the source file] Note: the ‘-f’ switch will start a new merge file and you can add an unlimited amount of pages to the file.
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ARTS PDF Aerialist Professional User Guide Content Assembly Examples of a Control File Content of a control file specifying the page range: -f C:\Sample Files\Output\Merge.pdf 1-10,15,18 C:\Sample Files\File1.pdf C:\Sample Files\File2.pdf 1-20 odd C:\Sample Files\File3.pdf odd C:\Sample Files\File4.pdf Result • • • • is output file ‘Merge.pdf’ containing Only pages 1 to 10, page 15 and page 18 of File1.pdf All pages of File2.pdf Only the odd pages from page 1 to 20 of File3.pdf Only odd pages of File4.
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ARTS PDF Aerialist Professional User Guide Bookmarks 5. Bookmarks 5.1. Overview The Bookmarks feature set provides the ability to add, edit, build, replace, delete and sort bookmarks across one or more PDF files. The tool allows users make almost any PDF file more usable and easier to navigate. The Bookmarks feature set has been built to save time creating and managing bookmarks.
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ARTS PDF Aerialist Professional User Guide Bookmarks 5.2. Using Bookmarks There are four main Bookmark functions: Add Bookmarks, Find Bookmarks, Build Bookmarks, Delete Bookmarks and Sort Bookmarks. Find/Replace Bookmarks Add Bookmarks Sort Bookmarks Delete All Bookmarks Figure 34. Figure 35. 5.2.1. Build Bookmarks Bookmark toolbar buttons The Bookmark menu Bookmark Features A brief rundown of each function has been provided below.
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ARTS PDF Aerialist Professional User Guide Bookmarks All these functions can be automatically performed across multiple documents using Batch Processing. See the Batch Processing section for more information. If you wish to automate and customize Bookmark functions even more, or create toolbar buttons that perform custom Bookmark jobs, read the section on Using Bookmark Commands. 5.2.1.1.
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ARTS PDF Aerialist Professional User Guide Bookmarks 5.3. Adding Bookmarks The Add Bookmarks function creates a set of user-defined bookmarks. Use the Import/Export features to save and reuse a set of bookmarks in other documents using batch processes or with the Productivity feature. 5.3.1. The Preview Pane The preview pane allows you to view and easily edit a bookmark structure. The bookmark structure can then added to any PDF document. Figure 36.
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ARTS PDF Aerialist Professional User Guide Bookmarks 5.3.1.1. Add or Edit Bookmarks To create or edit a bookmark in the Add Bookmark’s preview pane: 1. Click ‘Add’ or ‘Edit’ to open the ‘New Bookmark’ dialog. 2. In the ‘New Bookmark’ dialog, enter the name and bookmark properties you wish the bookmark to have. 3. Click ‘OK’. Details of bookmark properties can be in the next section, Bookmark Properties. 5.3.1.2. Bookmark Properties Figure 37.
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ARTS PDF Aerialist Professional User Guide Bookmarks Action This designates what action occurs when the user clicks on the bookmark. None Go To View Go To Remote View Open File WWW Link Read Article Show / Hide Field Submit Form Reset Form Import Form Data JavaScript Execute Menu Item Movie Sound | CONTENTS | INDEX | Nothing occurs when the bookmark is clicked. This action will jump to the specified page in the document.
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ARTS PDF Aerialist Professional User Guide Bookmarks Magnification Options: This option is available in the action bookmark properties ‘Go To View’ and ‘Go To Remote View’. The option is also available when building bookmarks using the Build Bookmarks feature. The following magnification options are available: • Inherit Zoom Displays the destination window at the magnification level that the user is using when they click on the bookmark. • Zoom Displays the page at a magnification specified by the user.
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ARTS PDF Aerialist Professional User Guide Bookmarks • Relative Addresses These are most appropriate for PDFs published to CDs/DVDs or when the entire file system is copied and must remain relative to the source. Relative addresses describe the path to a file, relative to another file, in most cases the Bookmarker file that was loaded last. To use relative addressing, please follow the following syntax For example: If the file is in the same folder, then use .\target.
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ARTS PDF Aerialist Professional User Guide Bookmarks 5.3.1.4. Import Bookmarks from a PDF This function enables you to import existing bookmarks from the active PDF document into the Add Bookmark’s preview pane. It will retain the same bookmark level structure as displayed in the PDF document. To copy or extract bookmarks from the open PDF document into the preview pane: 1. Click on the ‘Import…’ button. 2. Select ‘From current PDF’. 3. Click ‘OK’. Figure 38. 5.3.1.5.
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ARTS PDF Aerialist Professional User Guide Bookmarks 5.3.2. Add Bookmarks to PDF To add bookmarks from the preview pane to the open PDF document, click ‘OK’. Note: There are options available when adding bookmarks to the PDF document, see Insertion Options and Expand / Collapse options. 5.3.2.1. Insertion Options The insertion options drop down box has three options that allow you to choose how you want to display the new bookmarks. The three options are: 5.3.2.2.
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ARTS PDF Aerialist Professional User Guide Bookmarks 5.3.3.1. Importing Tools To load or import your bookmark settings from a file: 1. Click the ‘Import…’ button. 2. Select ‘From settings file’ 3. Click on the ‘…’ button and browse to the location of the file you wish to import. 4. Select the file to import and click ‘OK’. In the Add Bookmarks function you can import PDF, ARTS PDF Bookmarks settings, Comma-delimited or Tab-delimited file types: • PDF files (*.
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ARTS PDF Aerialist Professional User Guide Bookmarks Example: 0, Introduction, 0, 1, 100 0, Contents, 0, 2, 100 1, Part-1, 0, 3, 100 2, Part-1(a), 0, 4, 100 2, Part-1(b), 0, 5, 100 1, Part-2, 0, 6, 100 0, Index, 0, 7, 100 • Tab delimited files (*.txt) Tab-delimited file types can be created using a text editor such as Notepad or a spreadsheet application such as Microsoft Excel.
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ARTS PDF Aerialist Professional User Guide Bookmarks 5.4. Finding and Replacing Bookmarks The Find Bookmark function allows you to delete or replace only the bookmarks that match the search criteria you specify; once you have entered the content to search for, Find Bookmarks scans the text of all the bookmarks of the PDF files you have selected and updates them based on the text and properties changes you have specified. Figure 39.
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ARTS PDF Aerialist Professional User Guide Bookmarks 5.4.1. Find Options When searching the Bookmark text the following two options are available, in order to make it as relevant as possible. • Is complete bookmark name This will only perform Find/Replace actions on bookmarks that completely match the specified search text • Case sensitive This will only perform the action on bookmarks whose text is exactly the same case as that specified. Figure 40. Finding Bookmarks E.g.
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ARTS PDF Aerialist Professional User Guide Bookmarks • 5.4.3. Replace with – Action Replaces the current bookmark action with the specified one.
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ARTS PDF Aerialist Professional User Guide Bookmarks 5.5. Building Bookmarks The Build Bookmarks function can automatically generate bookmarks based on the font styles and layout used in your PDFs. After specifying the combination of attributes that must exist for a bookmark to be generated, the Bookmarks function can quickly scan one or more PDF files to build the bookmarks for each document.
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ARTS PDF Aerialist Professional User Guide Bookmarks 5.5.1. Creating Bookmarks Creating bookmarks using the Build Bookmarks function is simple. Using the selection criteria you can be very selective in what text is created into bookmarks. To build bookmarks follow this basic outline: 1. In the Build Bookmarks dialog, click “Level 1”. This will open up the Select Bookmark Attributes dialog. Figure 42. Bookmark Attributes 2.
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ARTS PDF Aerialist Professional User Guide Bookmarks 6. If you wish to remove a bookmark level, simply click its corresponding “Clear” button in the main dialog. If you clear a bookmark level when there are bookmark levels created below it, they will also become unavailable. 7. Set the Magnification Options you wish the bookmarks to open the pages with. 8. Set the Insert Options and Expand / Collapse Options. 9. Set the Bookmark exact text only option.
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ARTS PDF Aerialist Professional User Guide Bookmarks • Font Size Creates bookmarks from text that conforms to the specified font size. • Font Color Creates bookmarks from text that matches the selected text’s color. • Left Indentation This will create bookmarks from text with its line indent starting the specified distance from the left-hand side of the page.
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ARTS PDF Aerialist Professional User Guide Bookmarks PDF The Build Bookmarks function will only build bookmarks: • Introduction to ARTS PDF • Part I - ARTS • Part II - PDF If the user chooses to exclude a keyword list (e.g. sample.txt) that contains: ARTS PDF The Build Bookmarks function will only build bookmarks: • Table Of Contents • Part III – Other • Ignore repeated headings Creates a bookmark for only the first occurrence of a repeated bookmark name.
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ARTS PDF Aerialist Professional User Guide Bookmarks • 3.0 Install If you choose to remove leading numbers, ARTS PDF Bookmark will build bookmarks: • Introduction • Contents • Install 5.5.3.1. Using Text Masking The text masking property has a number of special characters allowing you to selectively create bookmarks. They are described in detail below with simple examples provided.
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ARTS PDF Aerialist Professional User Guide Bookmarks Example: Entering the text “abc$” will create a bookmark only from text with lines ending with “abc”, so “…xyzabc” would cause a bookmark of that line to be created, but “abcxyz” would not have a bookmark created. o If you only want to create bookmarks from lines that only contain the exact text you specify, use both the “^” and “$” characters. o [ ] : Any lines containing characters inside the “[ ]” will be created into a bookmark.
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ARTS PDF Aerialist Professional User Guide Bookmarks Example: Entering “a+b” will create bookmarks from any line of text containing ab, aab, aaab¸ etc. Any text like ba, or cb, will be ignored. o ? : Like the “+” character, the “?” character creates bookmarks from a set of characters arrayed in a certain order, but in this case, bookmarks can be created from characters before the “?” only if the proceeding characters are also present.
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ARTS PDF Aerialist Professional User Guide Bookmarks 5.6. Deleting Bookmarks This is the easiest function to use – simply click on the Delete Bookmarks button or the menu item: Plug-ins > ARTS PDF Aerialist Professional > Bookmarks > Delete Bookmarks. Be careful when using this function, as Acrobat cannot undo the deletion of bookmarks. If you have accidentally deleted them the only way to retrieve them is to exit the document without saving, and then open it again.
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ARTS PDF Aerialist Professional User Guide Bookmarks 5.7. Sorting Bookmarks The Sort Bookmarks feature allows the user to sort their bookmarks in alphabetical order. The bookmarks can be sorted in ascending or descending order. You can sort an entire level of bookmarks or select a particular node of bookmarks. Figure 43. • Sorting bookmarks Level/Nodes Entering a level: To enter a level you must put ‘L’ in front of the bookmark level value. Level one (L1) is the highest bookmark level.
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ARTS PDF Aerialist Professional User Guide Bookmarks For example: Take the initial bookmark structure as follows. -B -A -3 -2 - two - four - three - one -1 Example #1: Settings: Level/Node=L2; Apply to child nodes=not selected; Order=ascending. Result: Only the level two bookmarks will be sorted. -B -A -1 -2 - two - four - three - one -3 Example #2: Settings: Level/Node=2,2; Apply to child nodes=selected; Order=ascending. Result: Bookmarks under the second bookmark’s second node will be sorted.
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ARTS PDF Aerialist Professional User Guide Stamp 6. Stamp 6.1. Overview Using ARTS PDF Aerialist Professional stamp text, watermarks and backgrounds to pages on a PDF document. With ARTS PDF Aerialist Professional’s Stamp features, users can customize the content, appearance and action of each stamp as well as combining multiple stamps into one stamp profile. This includes aligning and setting the size of each stamp, or even making your stamps behave like hyperlinks.
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ARTS PDF Aerialist Professional User Guide Stamp Figure 45. The Stamp feature’s main window 6.2. Main Features The main features of ARTS PDF Aerialist Professional’s Stamp set are: • Stamp text on a PDF file • Stamp an Image on a PDF file • Stamp a page from a PDF document on another PDF document. 6.2.1. Text Stamps Use this feature to create single or multi-line text stamps. Text stamps are often used for headers, footers and hyperlinks.
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ARTS PDF Aerialist Professional User Guide Stamp 6.2.2. Image Stamps Image stamps enable you to stamp single or multiple images on PDF document. ARTS PDF Aerialist Professional supports a number of different image types. These include BMP, RLE, DIB, GIF, JPG, PCX, PNG, EPS and TIFF formats 6. 6.2.3. PDF Stamps Stamp a page from a PDF onto another document. You can modify the placement, layout and action of the PDF stamp in the same way as text and the image stamps.
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ARTS PDF Aerialist Professional User Guide Stamp 6.3. Using Stamps To use the Stamp feature, first locate the Stamp tool button or menu item under 7 Acrobat’s Plug-in menu. Use either the toolbar or the menu items from Acrobat’s menu to create, edit, mange or apply a stamp to a document. Once a stamp profiles is created, you can use it to easily stamp the active document by selecting it from either the tool button drop down or ‘Plug-ins > ARTS PDF Aerialist Professional > Stamp’ menu. Figure 46.
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ARTS PDF Aerialist Professional User Guide Stamp 6.3.1. Stamp a document To apply a stamp, open a PDF document and select or create your desired stamp profile. To select a stamp either: • Open the Manage Stamps dialog and select the profile from the list. Click ‘Stamp’ to process. • Select a stamp profile from the Stamp menu. • Click the drop down tool button. Once selected, the active document will be stamped with the chosen profile. Note: All the stamps within a profile are applied to the document.
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ARTS PDF Aerialist Professional User Guide Stamp 6.4. Managing Stamps and Profiles To activate the Stamp Management dialog, click the Stamp tool button or select ‘Manage Stamps’ from the ‘Plug-ins > ARTS PDF Aerialist Professional > Stamp’ menu item. The Stamp feature uses stamp profiles, allowing users to apply any combination of stamps in a single action. Stamp profiles also allow users to copy and share stamps between profiles.
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ARTS PDF Aerialist Professional User Guide Stamp 6.4.1. Creating a new Profile To create a new Profile: 1. Open the Manage Stamp dialog. 2. Click ‘New Profile’. 3. Add stamps as required to this profile by clicking the ‘Add Stamp’ button (refer to Designing stamps). 4. The stamp is automatically saved. 6.4.2. Creating a new Stamp To create a new Stamp: 1. Select the profile you want the stamp added to. 2. Click the ‘Add Stamps’ button and select a stamp type from the list (refer to Designing stamps).
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ARTS PDF Aerialist Professional User Guide Stamp 6.4.5. Deleting Profiles /Stamps To delete a profile/stamp from the preview pane: 1. Right click the desired stamp or profile 2. Select ‘Delete Profile’ or ‘Delete Stamp’ from the popup menu. 3. Press ‘Yes’ or ‘No’ to confirm the delete action. Note: If the Profile contains several stamps, deleting the profile will delete all the stamps within the profile. Delete actions cannot be undone. 6.4.6.
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ARTS PDF Aerialist Professional User Guide Stamp 6.4.8. Editing Stamps To edit an existing stamp, select the desired stamp and click the edit button. The Edit Stamp function allows users to modify the properties of individual stamps. Editing is disabled unless a profile is selected. More detail in section Designing Stamps. 6.4.9. Right Click Menus As mentioned above, a number of editing features are available by right clicking a stamp or profile 9. 9 Figure 50. Right click profile menu Figure 51.
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ARTS PDF Aerialist Professional User Guide Stamp 6.5. Designing Stamps The stamp design dialogs are used to tailor the content, alignment, spacing and placement of a stamp. These properties are described below. 6.5.1. General Stamp Settings Settings common to text, image and PDF stamps are outlined in this section. 6.5.1.1. Layout Units Select ‘cm’, ‘mm’ or ‘inch’ from the drop down. Horizontal Position Select the horizontal point of reference for the stamp. Adjust by entering a value in the text box.
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ARTS PDF Aerialist Professional User Guide Stamp By adjusting the stamp order in the Profile dialog, it’s possible to create a number of different variations. 6.5.1.2. Pages Options Set which pages to stamp on by selecting a predefined range: • All pages • Odd pages • Even pages • First page • Last page Alternatively, define your own page range, i.e. 2, 5, 9-16 or by page groups, stamp from page 2 every 4 pages, i.e. 2, 6,10,14. 6.5.1.3.
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ARTS PDF Aerialist Professional User Guide Stamp 6.5.1.5. • Open File: Opens the specified file. This file can be of any type, but only files with a *.pdf extension will be opened in Acrobat; all other file types will be opened in their default viewers. The path to the file can be configured using an absolute or relative address, see Using Absolute / Relative Addressing. • Open a web Link: Clicking on the bookmark opens a web browser to the URL specified within the WWW Link textbox.
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ARTS PDF Aerialist Professional User Guide Stamp To use relative addressing, please follow the following syntax For example: You have the stamped PDF file 'stamped.pdf' and is stored in a directory C:\directory 1\directory 2\ (i.e. C:\directory 1\directory 2\stamped.pdf) • If the file to open with the action stamp is in the same directory as the stamped document (‘stamped.pdf’) i.e. C:\directory 1\directory 2\target.pdf then use '.\ target.
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ARTS PDF Aerialist Professional User Guide Stamp 6.5.2. Text Stamp Properties Figure 52. 6.5.2.1. Designing Text Stamps Line spacing When creating multi-line text stamps, alter this setting to adjust the space between lines. Lines are created using the enter key. Note: line spacing adjustments will appear only in the preview pane or output file – not in this text box.
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ARTS PDF Aerialist Professional User Guide Stamp 6.5.2.2. Dynamic Text Dynamic Text is used to insert variable data (such as document information fields) and information that is calculated at runtime such as page numbers and time. To use dynamic text, select an item from the drop down list and press ‘Insert’. A specific macro to identify the dynamic text will be inserted into the text box.
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ARTS PDF Aerialist Professional User Guide Stamp 6.5.2.3. Font ARTS PDF Aerialist Professional allows you to customize the appearance of your text stamp. Choose from System or Standard fonts, change the color, size and even the underline style used. Note: that only one style can be set per stamp. Font type Choose from either ‘System’ or ‘Standard’ font types. System refers to the fonts present on your computer. Standard fonts (also known as Base 14) are those native in Acrobat/Adobe Reader.
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ARTS PDF Aerialist Professional User Guide Stamp • Applying in Batch - When applying Bates stamps in batch, the Bates number increments over documents, the counter does not reset. When applying in batch you must stamp over a folder, not a selection of files otherwise the total number of pages will not be calculated correctly. To add bates numbers: 1. Open the PDF document you wish to stamp. 2.
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ARTS PDF Aerialist Professional User Guide Stamp 6.5.2.5. Adding Page Numbers To add page numbers (i.e. “Page 1 of 10”): 1. Open the PDF document you wish to stamp. 2. Open the Stamp feature ‘Plug-ins > ARTS PDF Aerialist Professional > Stamp > Manage Stamps’ or click on the ‘Manage Stamps’ toolbar button. 3. Click on the ‘New Profile’ button and a new profile will be added. 4. With the new profile highlighted, click on the ‘Add Stamp’ button and select ‘Text’ to open the ‘Design your Text Stamp’ window.
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ARTS PDF Aerialist Professional User Guide Stamp 6.5.3. Image/PDF Stamp Settings The Stamp feature allows you to apply image or PDF stamps to your documents. Note: that image and PDF stamps share a number of similar properties. Some properties common to both are described in this section. Figure 53. Figure 54.
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ARTS PDF Aerialist Professional User Guide Stamp 6.5.3.1. Size Adjust this setting to resize your image or PDF. The adjustment affects both horizontal and vertical ratios. Note: changing the scale of your image/PDF may affect image quality. 6.5.3.2. Page Number (PDF Stamps only) Adjust this setting to choose which page number of the PDF document to use for the PDF stamp. Note: The total number of pages is validated by the selected PDF.
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ARTS PDF Aerialist Professional User Guide Stamp 6.6. Logging To enable logging open the Stamps preferences from the ‘Edit > Preferences >ARTS PDF Aerialist Professional > Stamp’ menu and ensure that the checkbox to enable logging is selected. Figure 55. 6.6.1. Logging preference View Log File To view the log file, from Acrobat menu, ‘Plug-Ins > ARTS PDF Aerialist Professional > Stamp > Logging > View log’. The log file records processing details.
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ARTS PDF Aerialist Professional User Guide Stamp Files processed: 0 Not processed files: 1 -------------------------------------------------------------------------Insert Text: Text is out of the page. Select another position or angle Insert Text: Text is out of the page. Select another position or angle Source Image file does not exist ========================================================= If any unexpected errors occur, refer to the log file for debugging details. Please contact techsupport@artspdf.
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ARTS PDF Aerialist Professional User Guide Stamp 6.7. Configuring Stamp Preferences Stamp preferences can be accessed from ‘Edit > Preferences > ARTS PDF Aerialist Professional > Stamp’: Figure 56. 6.7.1. 6.7.2. Preferences Dialog File Handling • Write stamp to new file – Creates a new file to apply stamp on. • Enable logging – Choose to keep a log of all the processes in a text file.
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ARTS PDF Aerialist Professional User Guide Links 7. Links 7.1. Overview The Links feature extends Adobe Acrobat’s tools for editing links in PDF files. Use the Links feature to copy, paste, edit, convert and check links. The Links feature set is essential for anyone distributing interactive PDFs that contain links across a single document or a collection of files.
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ARTS PDF Aerialist Professional User Guide Links 7.2. Using Links After installation, Link functions can be accessed via the ARTS PDF Aerialist Professional toolbar in Acrobat or via the ‘Plug-ins > ARTS PDF Aerialist Professional > Links’ menu item. Figure 57. Figure 58.
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ARTS PDF Aerialist Professional User Guide Links 7.3. Link Checking 7.3.1. Show Dead Link Toolbar Enable this toolbar to quickly navigate through broken links in the document with the Find Next, Find Previous and Flash Dead links on this Page commands. Figure 59. 7.3.2. The Dead Link Toolbar Find Next Dead Link Use this function to perform a search for dead links from the current page. The first dead links found are ‘flashed’ using a blinking effect.
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ARTS PDF Aerialist Professional User Guide Links 7.4. Link Management 7.4.1. Show / Hide Link Alignment Palette The Links feature allows you to align two or more links horizontally or vertically. The alignment options available are left, center, right, top, middle or bottom. Please Note: You cannot use the “Edit > Undo” function to undo link or note alignment. It is therefore recommended to save the file prior to aligning.
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ARTS PDF Aerialist Professional User Guide Links 7.4.2. Set Link(s) Properties This feature is designed to update the visual properties of multiple links to share common attributes at the same time. Some usage examples include updating a selection of visible links to invisible or setting the magnification property to ‘fit width’ for all links in a particular document. Figure 60. 7.4.2.1.
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ARTS PDF Aerialist Professional User Guide Links As an example, to change all links to ‘Fit Width’ in the document, select ‘All Magnifications’ in the ‘From’ field and ‘Fit Width’ in the ‘To’ field, ensuring that ‘All Pages’ is chosen from the ‘Apply To’ options. 7.4.2.2. Link Appearance Link appearance settings are used to change the appearance of those links specified in the ‘Apply To’ range. Link Type: • Don’t adjust: the visible state of selected links will not change.
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ARTS PDF Aerialist Professional User Guide Links 7.4.3. Find And Replace Destinations The ‘Find & Replace Destinations’ feature is a powerful feature for iterating through all links, bookmarks and form fields in the document and replacing incorrect or modified destinations. Links, bookmarks and form fields (buttons) typically have an action associated with them. Commonly this action is set to GoTo a page in a document, open a web link or open a file.
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ARTS PDF Aerialist Professional User Guide Links 7.4.3.1. Destination Search for: Select the desired action type to search in. Action types to be searched within are: • External files – only actions including Open File, GoTo Remote Page and GoTo Remote Named Destination will be scanned. • WWW address – only Open Web Link (URL) actions will be scanned • Page Number – only internal GoTo Page actions will be scanned • Named Destination – actions of type GoTo Named Destination are scanned.
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ARTS PDF Aerialist Professional User Guide Links Search in links: If checked, the search will include destinations found link actions. Search in bookmarks: If checked, the search will include destinations within bookmark actions. Search in form fields: If checked, the search will include destinations found within form field actions. Convert to: This feature is dynamic and changes depending on the type of action searched for. Please refer to the table below for more information: 7.4.4.
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ARTS PDF Aerialist Professional User Guide Links Figure 62. • Setting base URL Dialog If ‘Set base URL for document’ option is selected, then: This function sets the base URL for a document. If the Base URL changes, all other links will be updated to reflect the change. • If ‘Append URL to all relative web links’ option is selected, then, The specified URL is appended to all web links that do not use absolute addresses. Example 1: - URI link in the document is “./arts_pdf_search.
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ARTS PDF Aerialist Professional User Guide Links Example 2: - URI link in the document is “../arts_pdf_search.asp” - Base URL is http://www.artspdf.com/pdfsearch - Convert URI web links option changed to -> http://www.artspdf.com/pdfsearch/../arts_pdf_search.asp Note: A link to an absolute link will not be altered, i.e http://www.planetpdf.com Would not become http://www.artspdf.com/http://www.planetpdf.com 7.4.5.
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ARTS PDF Aerialist Professional User Guide Links To Use: 1. Open the PDF file containing the numbers you wish converted to page links. 2. With the mouse cursor, draw a rectangle around the area of the page you want scanned. Link suspects will be highlighted. If no area is drawn then the entire page will be scanned for potential page links. 3. Set the desired appearance (visibility, color etc.) and magnification options. 4. Select the desired page range to scan and create links from.
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ARTS PDF Aerialist Professional User Guide Links To Use: 1. Open the PDF file containing the text you wish to scan for keywords. 2. From the ‘Links’ tool button menu select ‘Create Page Links’. 3. Enter the desired text to search for. If ‘Exact phrase’ is not selected then any words containing the search text at the beginning, middle or end will also be found. For example, searching for ‘pre’ without exact match selected will produce links for, ‘previous’ and ‘apprehend.’ 4.
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ARTS PDF Aerialist Professional User Guide Links 7.4.7. Table of Contents The Table of Contents (TOC) builder is a feature of ARTS PDF Aerialist Professional only. It is used to build a listing of files and/or sections of files and to control it’s layout. This list is visually displayed as either new pages on a specific PDF or a new file. The TOC Builder can be opened from the ‘Links’ tool button group or via Acrobat’s plug-ins menu. If no document is open in Acrobat, only a Master TOC can be built.
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ARTS PDF Aerialist Professional User Guide Links 7.4.7.1. Type There are two types of Table of Contents that can be built using the TOC builder. • A Document Table of Contents o A Document Table of Contents can be created from existing bookmarks or example headings in the active document. Each entry in the table of contents will be linked to the corresponding section in the active document.
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ARTS PDF Aerialist Professional User Guide Links 7.4.7.2. Text Source The options in this list determine where to gather the text used for each entry in the Table of Contents. 7.4.7.3. • Bookmarks: The Table of Contents will be built based on bookmarks already defined in the document. For a master table of contents the table of contents will be concatenated in the same order as the files are processed. Link actions will be inherited from the bookmarks.
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ARTS PDF Aerialist Professional User Guide Links Automatically generate a Table of Contents based on the font styles and layout used in your PDFs. After setting the desired combination of attributes for each level in the TOC, ARTS PDF Aerialist can quickly scan one or more PDF files to build the Table of Contents for each document. To define headings…: 1. Select the Master or Document from the ‘Type’ drop down. 2. Select the ‘Headings…’ and click on “Define…” to set the parameters. Figure 67.
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ARTS PDF Aerialist Professional User Guide Links 7.4.7.5. Options Use these settings to control some important minor options: • • • • • 7.4.7.6. Section Numbers: Add, remove or ignore the presence of section numbers in the TOC. Line Spacing: Set line spacing between TOC entries to either single, 1.5 or double. Links: o Relative: Links will be created using relative addressing provided that the final destination of the TOC is specified. o Absolute: Links will be created with absolute addresses.
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ARTS PDF Aerialist Professional User Guide Links Figure 68. 7.4.7.8. TOC Preview Window Saving & Loading Settings Settings can be saved for reuse using the ‘Save Settings’ & ‘Load Settings’ buttons. This will save the type and layout for the create TOC dialog. These settings can be saved and reused again as necessary.
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ARTS PDF Aerialist Professional User Guide Links 7.5. Delete Links The Links feature can be used to delete all links or dead links only from a document. To use this feature, navigate from the Acrobat plug-ins menu to ‘Plug-ins > ARTS PDF Aerialist Professional > Links > Delete Links’. There are two options available, delete all links or only delete the dead links in the PDF file. Figure 69. Deleting the links in the document.
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ARTS PDF Aerialist Professional User Guide Links 7.6. Reporting 7.6.1. Report on Bad Actions This feature searches an entire document and produces a list of all actions (link or widget annotations) and bookmarks that are bad. This report can be executed in batch using Acrobat’s batch processing engine. Each item in the report has a link to where the problem is located. To use, select ‘Plug-ins > ARTS PDF Aerialist > Links > Create Report On > Bad Actions’ Figure 70.
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ARTS PDF Aerialist Professional User Guide Links 7.6.2. Report on Bad Bookmarks This function produces a report detailing broken bookmarks. Bookmarks are deemed broken if the target page, view, named destination, file or URL is unavailable. To use, click ‘Plug-ins > ARTS PDF Aerialist > Links > Create Report On > Bad Bookmarks’ Figure 71.
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ARTS PDF Aerialist Professional User Guide Links 7.6.3. Report on All Links Use this feature to produce a report on all the links present in the document. The report identifies both valid and broken links. Broken links are prefixed with an ‘X’ symbol to assist identifying n links and missing destinations. Note, this report does not report on bookmarks. To use, select ‘Plug-ins > ARTS PDF Aerialist > Links > Create Report On > All Links’ Figure 72.
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ARTS PDF Aerialist Professional User Guide Links 7.6.4. Report on External Dependencies Selecting this function will produce a report containing a listing of all external files and URLs that are referenced by bookmarks, link or widget annotations. URLs in the list are active and can be clicked, allowing you to quickly go through the whole list for verification. Examples of external dependencies include external files (PDF or other) and URLs.
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ARTS PDF Aerialist Professional User Guide Links 7.6.5. Report on Selected Link This feature will generate a low level report on the structure of the selected link or annotation. This feature is intended to be useful to experienced developers who are familiar with the PDF Specification. This report may offer an explanation as to possible strange (unexplained) behaviors in a link. To use: 1. Select the ARTS PDF Link Tool in the toolbar. 2. Using the ARTS PDF Link Tool select a single link or annotation. 3.
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ARTS PDF Aerialist Professional User Guide Links 7.6.6. Count Links Count the number of links, widgets and bookmarks in the active PDF document. And display the number of each that is broken. To use, click ‘Plug-ins > ARTS PDF Aerialist > Links > Create Report On > Count links’ Figure 75.
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ARTS PDF Aerialist Professional User Guide Links 7.7. Configuring Link Preferences The Links feature preferences can be accessed from ‘Edit > Preferences > ARTS PDF Aerialist Professional > Links’: Figure 76. Links Preferences Dialog • Count links without checking for bad links - Selecting this option will confirm that the links total will not include bad links. • Check named destination in external file. When this option is: - Selected, then the application will not check for named destinations.
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ARTS PDF Aerialist Professional User Guide Links • Check web links When this option is: - Selected, the application checks for the web links in the document. The web checking features checks for hyperlinks for the major HTTP protocol. - Not selected, the application does not check for validity of web links. • Make reports landscape layout When this option is selected, all the report generated will be in landscape format instead of the portrait format.
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ARTS PDF Aerialist Professional User Guide Links 7.8. Additional Link Features 7.8.1. Multiple – select and drag links The Links feature of the ARTS PDF Aerialist will add a button to your toolbar that allows you to select multiple links. Click on a link, hold down shift, and click on another link. It works just as you would expect to be able to select multiple links. You can also use the "Select All" menu to select all links on a page.
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ARTS PDF Aerialist Professional User Guide Links 7.8.2. Cut and paste links After you have selected one or more links with the Links feature, you can use standard clipboard commands under the Edit menu to cut and paste links. You can quickly make multiple copies of the same link if you need several links to all be the same size. You can also paste onto other pages or into other documents. Figure 78.
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ARTS PDF Aerialist Professional User Guide Links 7.8.3. Paste links onto multiple pages or multiple files Using the Paste Multiple command, you can paste links from the clipboard throughout a document, or you can choose a starting page number and an ending page number. You may also select whether the links will be pasted on even, odd, or all pages. If you choose the batch button, you can paste links onto the selected page range for a batch of documents. To use: 1. Activate the link selection tool 2.
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ARTS PDF Aerialist Professional User Guide Images 8. Images 8.1. Overview The Images feature provides a set of tools for image management and editing within PDF documents. There are three ways to perform image manipulation in the Images feature. First is the management of individual images using the image selection tool and the available Image tools. Second is the handling of one or more images using Images Document Tools.
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ARTS PDF Aerialist Professional User Guide Images 8.2. Using Images icon from the ARTS PDF Aerialist Professional To use the Images feature, select the toolbar. A black selection arrow will then be displayed. Click on any image with the selection tool to activate the Images feature. Once an image is selected there are three methods available for image editing or management. All of these are covered in detail in their respective sections of this manual.
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ARTS PDF Aerialist Professional User Guide Images 8.2.1. Preferences Figure 80. Preference Window Images preferences are set using the standard Acrobat method: Edit -> Preferences -> ARTS PDF Aerialist Professional > Images. The default selections are as shown in the picture above. Available choices for the Double-click Tool are: “Image Tools, “Edit Image”, “Document Tools”, “Despeckle”, “Extract Image”, or “Replace Image”.
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ARTS PDF Aerialist Professional User Guide Images 8.2.2. Undo Generally, one level of undo is supported for all Image functions except those functions performed on all, or a selected range of, images in a PDF document. Undo is activated by the standard “Control + Z” (Windows) or “Command+Z” (Macintosh) key sequence. Repeating the keystrokes does a redo. 8.2.3. Compression Methods Figure 81.
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ARTS PDF Aerialist Professional User Guide Images 8.2.3.2. LZW LZW compression can discover and exploit many patterns in its input data. The compression obtained using the LZW method varies from file to file; the best case (a file of all zeros) provides a compression approaching 1365:1 for long files, while the worst case (a file in which no pair of adjacent characters appears twice) can produce an expansion of approximately 50%. 8.2.3.3.
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ARTS PDF Aerialist Professional User Guide Images 8.2.4. Saving Changes For changes to be made a permanent part of the PDF document, the file must be saved. If the user attempts to close a document after having made changes, Acrobat will automatically prompt the user as to whether they want to save the document or not. Saving changes in this method certainly makes them a part of the document. However, the standard “Save” leaves the document in a non-optimized state.
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ARTS PDF Aerialist Professional User Guide Images 8.2.6. The Image Selection Tool icon from the ARTS PDF Aerialist Professional tool bar will activate the Selecting the image selection tool shown below. Use this tool to select an image to be edited. When an image is selected it will be highlighted by a dashed line around the image, plus eight small squares – one on each corner of the image, and one each at the center of the left, right, top and bottom edges.
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ARTS PDF Aerialist Professional User Guide Images This launches the Document Tools window. See the Document Tools section later in this manual. 8.2.7.3. Edit Image... This launches the Image Editor window. See the Image Editor section later in this manual. 8.2.7.4. New Image... This function allows the user to insert a new image into a PDF page. When using this function the user will have the option to select a compression type for the new image. See Compression Methods earlier in this manual.
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ARTS PDF Aerialist Professional User Guide Images 8.2.7.8. Bring to Front Causes the currently selected image to be move in front of any other objects in the PDF. You may also simply click the “ [ ” key on your keyboard while an image is selected to bring an image to the front. 8.2.7.9. Send to Back Causes the currently selected image to be move behind any other objects in the PDF. You may also simply click the “ ] ” key on your keyboard while an image is selected to send an image to the back. 8.2.7.
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ARTS PDF Aerialist Professional User Guide Images 8.2.8. The “Image Tools” Window The panels in this window provide information and user control over images. There are currently six panels: Info, Orientation, Color, OPI, Sample and Crop. Clicking on each tab will display a “panel” where user selections can be made. On panels where an “Apply” button appears changes made on that panel will only take effect after “Apply” is pressed. 8.2.8.1. Info Figure 82.
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ARTS PDF Aerialist Professional User Guide Images 8.2.8.2. Orientation Figure 83. Orientation Panel From this panel the user may move, scale, rotate, flip horizontally or flip vertically the currently selected image. Except for “Position” which uses the lower left corner, all changes made on this panel are made with respect to the center of an image. Position The functions in this section allow the user to fine tune the position or size of an image.
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ARTS PDF Aerialist Professional User Guide Images Scaling This will scale the image by the percentage value entered in the box. To change the size of an image type in the scaling value desired, then click Scale. Mirror These two buttons will flip the image horizontally or vertically. 8.2.8.3. Color Figure 84. Color Panel – Color Conversion From this panel an image can be converted from its current color space to one of the color spaces in the “To” list.
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ARTS PDF Aerialist Professional User Guide Images 8.2.8.4. OPI This panel allows the user to create, view, or alter the OPI information for an image. Upon confirmation, this information will update the appropriate OPI information stored inside the PDF. Figure 87. OPI Panel Note: Editing images with OPI information is potentially an exercise in futility since the purpose of OPI is to replace the image in the PDF with one on the OPI server at print time.
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ARTS PDF Aerialist Professional User Guide Images The path format should be specified using the nomenclature of the OPI server system. Using the “Set” button will cause a file name to be placed in the OPI dictionary using the conventions and nomenclature of the current system, i.e.Windows format on a Windows system, Macintosh format on a Macintosh system. The Image feature does not perform any syntax checking to verify whether the input corresponds to a legal path format.
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ARTS PDF Aerialist Professional User Guide Images include monitors). This results in smaller file sizes and better performance. You should resample images when they are at a higher resolution than the intended output device supports. Note that images never resample to a higher resolution, only to a lower one. When subsampling an image, a pixel is selected in a sample to represent that area at the new resolution.
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ARTS PDF Aerialist Professional User Guide Images it, or canceling the operation. Note that applying cropping without removing the mask or clipping path may give unusual results. If this happens, the user may use “Undo” to restore the image to its state before the cropping was applied. Note: When an image is cropped the data is removed. It cannot be recovered except by an “undo” immediately following the cropping action.
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ARTS PDF Aerialist Professional User Guide Images 8.2.9. The “Image Editor” Window Figure 90. Image Editor This window shows a representation of the image to be edited. The initial view for the window is its minimum size so as to not obscure the underlying PDF page. Holding your mouse cursor over any of the tools in the tool bar will display a description of that tool’s function. When the Image Editor is launched the Zoom tool is selected by default.
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ARTS PDF Aerialist Professional User Guide Images 8.2.9.2. Grab The grab (hand) tool can be used to move the image within the window. Note that the hand tool is non-functional when the image fits entirely within the window. 8.2.9.3. Selection This tool is used to select an area of the image which can then be moved, cut, copied, or pasted. Once an area is selected you can move it within the current image by clicking, holding, then dragging it to the desired location.
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ARTS PDF Aerialist Professional User Guide Images 8.2.9.10. Select Color The eyedropper tool is used to select colors from within the current image. Clicking with the left mouse key selects the foreground color. In Windows, clicking with the right mouse key selects the background color. On the Macintosh, using Control+click selects the background color. 8.2.9.11.
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ARTS PDF Aerialist Professional User Guide Images 8.2.10. The “Document Tools” Window Figure 91. Document Tools Window When activated, this window will find and display a list of all images in the current PDF document. The list contains details on the PDF page number where each image exists, its uncompressed size in Kilobytes, its resolution and color space, as well as information on any OPI comments associated with the images.
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ARTS PDF Aerialist Professional User Guide Images 8.2.10.3. “Go To” an Image Selecting an entry in the list then clicking “Go To” will cause the image selector to “jump to” that image. If you desire to work on that image, click “Close” (Windows) or “Done” (Macintosh) on the Document Tools window to return to the PDF page containing that image. 8.2.10.4. Applying Actions to Images After an image, or images, have been selected, the user may select an “Action” from the drop-down list.
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ARTS PDF Aerialist Professional User Guide Images Replace Replace will only be available when one or more images have an OPI link. When this action is selected and the Execute button is clicked the user will first be asked to specify a folder to search for replacement images. A search is performed to find the specified OPI path to the replacement image. If the image is not found the search will continue through the specified folder and any subfolders looking for the image file name.
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ARTS PDF Aerialist Professional User Guide Layers 9. Layers 9.1. Overview The Layers feature extends the usability of PDF documents by allowing for the creation and management of layers for such uses as versioning, multi-lingual publications, and multi-purposing, to name but a few. With the release of Adobe Acrobat 6.0 (PDF version 1.5), Adobe introduced Optional Content Groups (OCGs) to the PDF Specification.
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ARTS PDF Aerialist Professional User Guide Layers 9.2. Using Layers Layers add another dimension to Adobe Acrobat and PDF pages – layers. The Layers feature lets you control the creation and management of layers and their content. This feature is great for creating and maintaining different versions of the same document, multi-lingual work, localized price and product changes, ad insertion instructions, and other alternate content. • • • • • • • • • • • 9.2.1.
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ARTS PDF Aerialist Professional User Guide Layers 9.2.2. Menu The Layers feature can be accessed from the Plug-ins > ARTS PDF Aerialist Professional menu. 9.2.3. Toolbar The Layers can be accessed from the ARTS PDF Aerialist Professional toolbar. 9.2.4. Preferences The preferences for the Layers feature can be set from the Edit > Preferences > ARTS PDF Aerialist Professional > Layers menu. After choosing the settings in the preference dialog, click OK to apply the changes.
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ARTS PDF Aerialist Professional User Guide Layers Figure 92. • Layers preferences Remember window positions When this option is checked the position of the layer management window will be saved when you quit Acrobat. It will then open in the same position the next time Acrobat is launched. • Allow partial select This determines whether an object will be selected when it is only partially selected by the object select tool.
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ARTS PDF Aerialist Professional User Guide Layers • Use page label for layer name When the “Create layers from pages” is chosen from the menu this function determines whether the page label will be used as the layer name. If this is not checked then the layer name will appear as ‘Page x’ where x is the page number of the page from which the layer is created.
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ARTS PDF Aerialist Professional User Guide Layers 9.3. Manage Layers Figure 93. 9.3.1. Manage Layers window Create a Layer Creating a layer involves naming the layer and adding objects to the layer. The steps to create a new layer are as follows: 1. Create a new layer i. ii. iii. iv. Open the Manage Layers window. Click New. Enter the layer name. Click OK to create the new layer. 2. Add objects to the layer a. Add selected objects i. In the Manage Layers window, select/highlight the new layer.
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ARTS PDF Aerialist Professional User Guide Layers ii. iii. iv. v. Click Select Objects. Select an object on a page of the open document. Click Add. Close the Select Objects dialog by clicking the X in the right-hand corner. a. Add an entire page as an object i. In the Manage Layers window, select/highlight the new layer. ii. Click Add Page. iii. Enter the page you want to add and the destination of the new objects. iv. Click OK to add the page as objects. 9.3.2. Select Objects Figure 94.
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ARTS PDF Aerialist Professional User Guide Layers • Toggle On/Toggle Off Clicking this button will cause the selected layer to either be displayed or removed from the Acrobat viewer. The button label will Toggle between "Toggle ON" and "Toggle OFF" depending on the current state of the selected layer. • Select This button will cause all the objects in the currently highlighted layer to be selected. 9.3.2.1. Selection Method There are several methods for selecting objects.
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ARTS PDF Aerialist Professional User Guide Layers 9.3.3. Add a Page Figure 96. Add Pages window Create new objects from the page content of a PDF document. Each page will create new objects to add to the layer. To add new objects to a layer: 1. In the Manage Layers window, select your layer and click Add Page. 2. Under “Insert pages from” select the document. Pages of this document will be used to create new objects. 3. Under "What pages" select the page.
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ARTS PDF Aerialist Professional User Guide Layers o o o o 5. Click Even pages - inserts new objects on every odd page of the active document. First page - inserts new objects on the first page of the active document. Last page - inserts new objects on the last page of the active document. Page range - inserts new objects on the specified pages of the active document. OK to create the objects. Note: The content of a page can be made up of multiple objects.
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ARTS PDF Aerialist Professional User Guide Layers 9.4. Layer Properties Figure 97. 9.4.1. Set Layer Properties To set 1. 2. 3. 4. 9.4.1.1. Edit Layer Properties dialog layer properties for a layer: Open the Manage Layers window. Click New or select an existing layer and click Edit Enter the layer properties. Click OK to save the changes. Layer Name Enter the layer name in this textbox. This will be the name displayed in Acrobat’s layer pane and Manage Layers window.
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ARTS PDF Aerialist Professional User Guide Layers 9.4.1.2. Default State This sets the default state of the layer. The available options are: 9.4.1.3. • ON Set s the visible state of the layer to “on” when the document is opened. • OFF Set s the visible state of the layer to “off” when the document is opened.
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ARTS PDF Aerialist Professional User Guide Layers 9.5. Create Layers From Pages Figure 98. Create Layers From Pages Create new layers from the page content of a PDF document. Each page will create a new layer. To create new layers: 1. Go to Plug-Ins > ARTS PDF Aerialist Professional > Layers > Create Layers From Pages. 2. Under “Insert pages from” select the document. Pages of this document will be used to create a new layer. 3. Under "What pages" select the page.
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ARTS PDF Aerialist Professional User Guide Layers o o o o o o o o 5. Click • All pages - inserts new layers on each page of the active document i.e. each page will have the same layer. Odd pages - inserts new layers on every even page of the active document. Even pages - inserts new layers on every odd page of the active document. First page - inserts new layers on the first page of the active document. Last page - inserts new layers on the last page of the active document.
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ARTS PDF Aerialist Professional User Guide Troubleshooting 10.Troubleshooting 10.1.
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ARTS PDF Aerialist Professional User Guide Troubleshooting Unwanted Bookmark Text “The text of my bookmarks contains other unwanted text.” The Bookmarks feature processes text by lines of text, and produces a bookmark out of the whole line of text. For example, if you specified “sales” in the text mask field, and your PDF document had a line in it with the text: “and so to conclude, our company had no major sales this month” The whole line of text will be turned into a bookmark.
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ARTS PDF Aerialist Professional User Guide Troubleshooting As an example of line indentation, try creating bookmarks using the line indentation property from the following dot points, or bullets. When dot points are created (in MS Word) the line indentation is changed also, so each different level of dot points has a different line indentation. Create a bookmark level for each dot point.
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ARTS PDF Aerialist Professional User Guide Troubleshooting Typically you may get errors such as “Control file is malformed” or “The file ‘x.pdf’ doesn’t exist”. The reason for these errors may be one of the following: • You have moved or deleted a PDF file. • You have spelt the pathname of a file incorrectly. • You have used spaces instead of tabs. • You used quotes before/after the pathname. Please see Using a control file for the correct structure of a control file.
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ARTS PDF Aerialist Professional User Guide Troubleshooting Degrading Performance “I have created a custom tool, but every time I try to use it, it seems to degrade the performance of ARTS PDF Tools.” If you create a tool with many multiple commands (e.g. 200), the performance of ARTS PDF Tools will decline based on the system specifications. You should rethink the way in which you are performing the task so as to utilize less commands.
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ARTS PDF Aerialist Professional User Guide Troubleshooting 10.2. Forum Are you having a problem that you can’t find in the Frequently Asked Questions? Then perhaps you’ll find it on the ARTS PDF Forum. Visit the ARTS PDF Forum on our website at http://forum.artspdf.com. 10.3.
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ARTS PDF Aerialist Professional User Guide Troubleshooting 10.4. Updates To ensure you are up-to-date with the most recently released bug fixes and new features; check that you have the latest version of ARTS PDF Aerialist Professional installed. To check if your version is the latest: 1. Start Adobe Acrobat. 2. On Macintosh, choose Acrobat > About Third-Party Plug-Ins > ARTS PDF Aerialist Professional. On Windows, choose Help > About Third-Party Plug-Ins > ARTS PDF Aerialist Professional 3.
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ARTS PDF Aerialist Professional User Guide Troubleshooting 10.6. Technical Support Before contacting us please read the complete Troubleshooting section as the answer to your problem may be found in the FAQs or on the ARTS PDF Forum. To contact ARTS PDF Technical Support, please e-mail techsupport@artspdf.com and supply the information below to help us replicate the problem you are experiencing. a.
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ARTS PDF Aerialist Professional User Guide Index Index A Activate, 9 Add Bookmarks Add, 81 Add to list, 76 Change bookmark properties, 76 Collapse bookmark option, 81 Copy from PDF, 80 Edit, 76 Import and export, 81 Insert option, 81 Move in list, 80 Preview pane, 75 Remove from list, 79 B Batch Processing, 35 Bookmarks, 38 Import Tools, 38 Links, 40 Sequence. See Sequence Split, 39 Stamp, 40 Bookmarks Add. See Add Bookmarks Batch processing, 38 Build.
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ARTS PDF Aerialist Professional User Guide Index Selection Tool, 159 Tool button, 154 Install, 8 K Add files, 68 Add folders, 68 Control file, 69 Options, 68 Overview, 67 Known Issues, 195 L Layers Create, 181, 188 Menu, 178 Overview, 176 Preferences, 178 Properties, 186 Toolbar, 178 P Page Marks Add, 58 Edit, 60 Export, 61 Import, 61 Remove, 59 View, 60 Productivity Link Checking Show dead links on next page, 123 Show dead links on this page, 123 Show first dead link, 123 Overview, 12 Preference
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ARTS PDF Aerialist Professional User Guide Index Overview, 56 Stamp Batch processing, 40 Create profile, 104 Create stamp, 104 Customized toolbar button, 33 Designing Stamps, 107, 111, 116 Features, 99 Logging, 118 Overview, 98 Preferences, 120 Stamp document, 102 Toolbar and menu, 101 Type. See Stamp Type Undo, 102 Stamp Type Bates number, 113 Dynamic text stamp, 112 Image, 116 Page number, 115 PDF, 116 Text stamp, 111 Support.