by David R. Mankin When Adobe released Acrobat 9, I couldn’t stop toying with the amazing PDF Portfolio feature. In the initial release (Acrobat 9.0), there was a small set of pre-designed layout choices from which to choose. It was easy to customize the layout colors, so you could at least make your Portfolio look different […]
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by David R. Mankin By now, many of you have discovered the most amazing new feature of Acrobat 9 Professional – the PDF Portfolio. The PDF Portfolio is a unique and exciting type of file that allows you to share and distribute ANY type of file – not just PDFs. These files are wrapped up in a […]
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by David R. Mankin We all used to share documents by shooting them back and forth via email. Many people still do. Not me – not anymore. I signed up for my free Acrobat.com account right after Adobe made the amazing service available. I’ve written about it several times. From a browser on any computer in […]
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by David R. Mankin You want a big sign! Nothing permanent, but you’d like to make a quick, VERY large printout. Your printer, however, can’t accommodate paper larger than legal size. Let me show you how to print a “normal-sized” document to larger proportions… using Acrobat! The print dialog box in Acrobat is one of the […]
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by David R. Mankin If Acrobat was free, everyone would own it. Acrobat is a very sophisticated application allowing you to work with, create, enhance and edit those amazing PDF files. Sadly, Acrobat isn’t free and not everyone owns it. People who do not have Acrobat still need to work with PDF files, which is where […]
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By David Mankin Find You have a PDF file, and you need to locate a word or phrase in it. How convenient – there’s a Find tool right there on your toolbar: You type in your search term and press enter. Instantly, you are brought to that phrase in your PDF. But it wasn’t the passage you needed. […]
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by David Mankin It’s a good bet that you’ve used a crop tool in a variety of software applications for many years. The crop tools have typically looked the same, regardless of the program. You’ve probably come to expect that the cropping process is a rectangular trimming of an area. Fair enough… unless you’re working […]
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by David Mankin By now, many of you have discovered the most amazing new feature of Acrobat 9 Professional – the PDF Portfolio. The PDF Portfolio is a unique and exciting type of file that allows you to share and distribute ANY type of file – not just PDFs. These files are wrapped up in a beautiful […]
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by David Mankin How much time have you spent looking for a PDF file you worked on a while ago? Like most other applications, Acrobat’s File Menu lists your most recently opened files. By default, you see the last five documents opened, but that sixth one will require some fishing to locate. This is an […]
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by David Mankin, Adobe Certified Instructor on Acrobat 9 Here are my top 10 favorite keyboard shortcuts that I have grown to rely on in Acrobat 9 Professional. You may know all of them, some of them, or maybe none at all. Everyone uses their applications differently. I used to be a mega-mouse-clicker. Over the […]
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