Quick Reference Guide
This Guide shows screen pictures made with Windows® XP. The appearance may vary under other Operating Systems.
Why are PDF files popular? The Portable Document Format has become a de-facto standard for document exchange across platforms and computing environments. More than 200 million PDF documents are posted on the World Wide Web. Key benefits that have driven this popularity are: • Integrity: PDF files look like the original documents they were created from. They conserve their appearance after sharing regardless of platform, operating system or local settings on each computer or device.
The program can create PDF files in versions 1.3 to 1.7 and PDF-A. Files can be protected by passwords and can include watermarks. Compression and font settings give you control over PDF file size and appearance. The PDF Product family Nuance Communications, Inc. offers three PDF products: • Nuance PDF Converter to unlock PDF and XPS files • Nuance PDF Create! to create PDF files • Nuance PDF Converter Professional to unlock, create, edit, comment and share PDF files and to unlock and create XPS files.
3. Location and Setup Type The installer offers a default location for the program. Accept it or define a different one. Select Complete or Custom Setup. Choose Custom to enable or disable the integration of PDF Create! in other programs. By default, all the programs offered in the PDF Create! Integration panel of the InstallShield Wizard will be enabled. (You can change integration settings later by choosing the program under Add or Remove Programs in the Control Panel and clicking Change and then Repair.
Nuance PDF Create! has a comprehensive HTML online Help system. Access it through a hyperlink in the PDF Create Assistant or through the PDF Create! menu in Microsoft Word, Excel, or PowerPoint. Press F1 to open Help at the topic describing the currently open panel. Some dialog boxes have Help buttons. A Release Notes file with latest information is available on the CD and in the program folder. The Nuance web site offers program information, with a regularly updated knowledge base and user forums.
Remove selected files Move selected files up or down Remove all files from the list Drag and drop input files onto this area, or use the Add button Assembly instruction* Select a profile This displays current saving settings Click to start PDF creation Click to change saving settings Change profile settings * other assembly instructions are: • Combine files into a single PDF (in the listed order) • Overlay files (with overlay options).
Click the Profiles... button to change settings for any profile, or to create a new profile based on an existing one. 1. Select a profile here Select a profile, click this to name a new profile based on it, then change settings and save it with OK. 2. Make selections here Click this to delete the selected profile after a warning. 3. Specify settings for each selection here Click this to restore default settings for the selected profile.
Create PDFs from Windows Explorer Right click on a single file. The shortcut menu includes: Choose a profile from the first item's sub menu. The current settings for that profile will be used for the PDF creation. Click Edit… to modify profile settings or create a new one before PDF creation. The second item shows the current saving instruction. Click on it to set a different instruction.
The Nuance PDF Settings for Word dialog box This can be accessed from a toolbar button or an item in the Nuance PDF menu. (In Word 2007 you can find this in the Nuance PDF tab.) It lets you define settings that are applicable only when creating a PDF from a Word document. Define which paragraph styles in the Word document should be converted to bookmarks in the PDF, which comments should be transferred and how hyperlinks should appear. Create PDFs from Microsoft Excel and PowerPoint 1.
How to overlay PDF files Overlay options let you place artwork or other fixed items onto just the first page of your PDF files, together with items that change from file to file. Overlay example for a cover page: Single-page file with repeated elements Page 1 of a multi- + page document = Cover page of resulting PDF file To have this result, deselect the option 'Repeat the last page of the shortest document for page overlay'.
XPS File Support The support for XPS files provided by the members of the PDF product family is as follows: Professional Create Converter XPS to PDF Yes Yes No PDF to XPS Yes No No Unlock XPS (XPS to Word, etc.) Yes No Yes Un-installation 1. Select Add or Remove Programs from the Control Panel. Under Vista, select Programs and Features from the Control Panel. 2. Select Nuance PDF Create! 5.0. 3.
