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Table Of Contents
- Why are PDF files popular?
- What PDF Professional does for you
- Installation and Activation
- How to Get Help
- Starting the Program
- Overview of creating PDF files
- PDF Creation can be done from the following locations as described in the table and the following sections:
- Create PDFs from PDF Professional
- Create PDFs from Print dialogs
- Use the PDF Create Assistant
- Create PDFs from Windows Explorer
- Create PDFs from Microsoft Word
- Create PDFs from Microsoft Excel and PowerPoint
- Create PDFs in mailing applications
- Create PDFs from Internet Explorer
- ScanSoft PDF Create! Properties dialog box
- How to overlay PDF files
- How to package files
- SharePoint and other DMS support
- Starting the Program
- Exporting PDF from the Professional program
- The PDF Converter Assistant
- Starting the Program from other places
- Processing modes and outputs
- Handling Mixed Input Files
- How do PDF files work?
- Language Support
- SharePoint and other DMS support
- XPS File Support
- Web Updates
- Un-installation
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search criteria. A PDF Index file (.zpi) is a searchable archive of PDF
documents. Click Document > Indexing to create a new index, modify an
existing one or to work with embedded indexes.
Windows Desktop Search
Microsoft offers a Windows Desktop Search facility, to search through
files of different types in specified folders. PDF Converter Professional
provides WDS with the added benefit of including PDF files in these
searches - this includes image-only PDFs.
Reading Text Aloud
Use the command Read PDF in the Tools menu to have the PDF text
read aloud. Choose the current, next or previous paragraph or page or
the whole remaining document. Choose Properties to set the rate and
volume. You can also save the PDF text to a sound file in the wav format.
This facility is powered by the Nuance RealSpeak Solo Text-to-Speech
engine.
PDF Optimizer
Optimize your PDF to best fit its purpose. Click Tools > Optimize PDF
and specify target requirements such as fast web view, object and image
compression, scanned page settings, font embedding and more. You can
also add tags to PDF files, to have their logical structure (paragraphs,
titles, pictures, tables, cells, etc.) identified and logged.
PDF Printing
In addition to the usual print choices you can choose to print the PDF
with or without comments. You can also print form fields only, allowing
you to print an empty form, fill it electronically, and then print your
responses onto the empty form. The Imposition tools lets you to prepare
PDF pages for physical printing.
Table of Contents
Insert a Table of Contents in your document, based on bookmarks. Open
the bookmark panel, set bookmarks and their ranking, then choose
Table of Contents from the bookmark panel's shortcut menu. The TOC
is useful when the PDF is physically printed and bookmarks are no
longer available.