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Ya know, Acrobat—Acrobat Professional, that is—just so misunderstood…it offers so much stuff, so many commands…but most people only use it just to open, and maybe print PDFs. Now I don’t wanna come off as some kinda poster-boy advocate for Acrobat or anything, but it’s got some great stuff to offer. In fact, it’s the lack of Acrobat know-how that compelled me to put together this list of 25 killer secrets. And while they’re not necessarily secret—they’re all right there in Acrobat just waitin’ to be used—they can be thought as secrets cuz nobody seems to know about 'em. There's so much great stuff in fact, that as I was putting this together, I quickly realized that I was gonna have to break it into three parts. So, you’ll get the first 8 secrets here, followed up by the next 8 in Part 2, and 9 more in Part 3. That’s a lotta good stuff, so fire up Acrobat and get readin’! In no particular order, here they are, 25 killer Acrobat secrets: Secret #1: Settin' 'Er Up With Layers!
Secret #2: Super-Sweet Navigation With Bookmarks!
Secret #3: Add Major Interactivity With Hyperlinks!You might know about creating hyperlinks if you're into web development, but didja know you can add ‘em to PDFs as well? It’s real easy, too. In fact, you can make any part of a PDF file clickable, and have all sortsa cool things happen, like open web sites, play an audio file, control a form, and even more. Try this: Choose View > Toolbars > Advanced Editing (one of the coolest toolbars in Acrobat, by the way); then on the Advanced Editing toolbar, click on the Link tool (the one that looks like two wee chain links); then click and drag a box around the text or image that you’d like to make clickable. In the dialog that appears, you can control the appearance of your hyperlink, as well as the link’s action. Have fun! Secret #4: Portability And Design Integrity, It’s PDF-Based Forms!Next up, PDF-based forms. Yup, rather than wrestling with web-based forms, or (gakk!) the near-unusable Word forms (hold up, I’m...gonna... heave...), [ Back to Web + Mag Articles ] [ Go to page: 1 | 2 ] |