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| Introduction | |
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| Getting Started with Acrobat and PDF | |
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| What's So Great About PDF? | |
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| How Can PDF Change Your Office Environment? | |
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| How Do PDF Documents Differ from Other Documents? | |
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| Adobe Acrobat or Reader--What's the Difference? | |
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| System Requirements | |
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| What's in the Box and What's Available | |
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| The Acrobat Interface | |
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| Navigating in Acrobat | |
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| Summary | |
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| Workshop | |
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| Navigating in PDF Files | |
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| Page Modes | |
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| Page Layout | |
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| Navigation Tools and Techniques | |
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| Summary | |
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| Workshop | |
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| Creating PDF Files | |
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| Where Do PDF Files Come From? | |
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| Not All PDF Files Are the Same Quality | |
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| PDF Files as eBooks | |
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| Tools for Creating PDF Files | |
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| Summary | |
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| Workshop | |
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| Creating PDF Files from Your Electronic Documents | |
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| A Short History of WYSIWYG | |
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| The Best Choice for Making PDF Files: Acrobat Distiller | |
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| The Acrobat Distiller Main Window | |
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| Making a PDF File Using Distiller | |
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| Customizing Distiller Settings | |
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| Creating Personalized Settings for Distiller | |
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| Security | |
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| Automating Distiller: Creating Watched Folders | |
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| Creating PDF Files Without Launching Distiller | |
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| Summary | |
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| Workshop | |
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| Easy PDF Creation for Microsoft Office Users | |
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| PDFMaker--Creating PDF Files Easily | |
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| Customizing Settings for PDFMaker | |
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| Using the Convert to Adobe PDF and Email Option | |
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| Summary | |
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| Workshop | |
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| Converting Paper Documents to PDF | |
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| About Acrobat Capture | |
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| Scanning Documents into Acrobat | |
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| Converting Previously Scanned Files to PDF | |
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| Making Scanned Files Searchable: OCR in Acrobat | |
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| Cleaning Up OCR Mistakes | |
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| Paper Capture Online | |
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| Summary | |
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| Workshop | |
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| Converting HTML to PDF with Web Capture | |
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| HTML Versus PDF--What's the Difference? | |
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| Why Use Web Capture? | |
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| Converting HTML to PDF: Capturing a Page or Site | |
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| Conversion Settings | |
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| Setting Web Capture Preferences | |
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| Locating Web Links Within a Document | |
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| Adding PDF Pages from Web Links | |
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| Summary | |
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| Workshop | |
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| Using and Adding Navigational Tools to PDF Files | |
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| Managing Pages with Thumbnails | |
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| What Are Thumbnails? | |
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| Embedding Thumbnails in a PDF File | |
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| Using Thumbnails for Navigation | |
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| Rearranging Page Sequence | |
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| Deleting Pages | |
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| Merging Pages Between Documents | |
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| Using Menu Commands and Context Menus | |
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| Summary | |
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| Workshop | |
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| Creating an Interactive TOC with Bookmarks | |
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| Navigating and Using Bookmarks | |
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| Creating and Customizing Bookmarks | |
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| Modifying Bookmarks | |
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| Applying Actions to Bookmarks | |
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| Renaming Bookmarks | |
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| Arranging Bookmarks | |
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| Setting a Document to Show Bookmarks When Opened | |
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| Bookmark Properties | |
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| Deleting Bookmarks | |
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| Summary | |
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| Workshop | |
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| Using Links to Add Interactivity to PDF Files | |
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| Using Links | |
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| Creating Links Within PDF Files | |
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| Link Properties and Actions | |
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| Editing an Existing Link | |
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| Automatically Creating Links to Web Sites | |
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| Setting Page Actions | |
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| Creating and Modifying Destinations | |
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| Using Articles | |
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| Changing Existing Articles | |
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| Summary | |
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| Workshop | |
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| Reviewing and Editing PDF Files | |
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| Extracting Text and Graphics | |
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| Extracting Portions of Text | |
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| Extracting Tables and Formatted Text (Windows Only) | |
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| Extracting Entire PDF Files for Editing | |
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| Extracting Images | |
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| Summary | |
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| Workshop | |
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| Editing a PDF File | |
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| Editing Text with the TouchUp Text Tool | |
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| Limitations to Text-Editing Capabilities | |
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| Changing Text Attributes | |
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| Additional Text-Editing Capabilities | |
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| Editing Graphics with the TouchUp Object Tool | |
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| Using Third-Party Editing Tools | |
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| Editing Entire PDF Files | |
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| Summary | |
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| Workshop | |
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| Adding Comments and Annotations | |
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| A Few Facts About the Use of Comments | |
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| Comments Tools | |
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| Graphic Markup Tools | |
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| Text Markup Tools | |
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| Other Things You Can Do with Comments in Acrobat | |
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| Sharing Comments Online | |
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| Summary | |
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| Workshop | |
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| Document Security and Digital Signatures | |
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| Creating and Applying Digital Signatures | |
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| Using Digital Signatures | |
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| Creating a Profile | |
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| Sharing Your Public Profile | |
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| Importing Signature Certificates | |
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| Verifying Digital Signatures | |
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| Using the Signature Palette | |
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| Applying a Signature | |
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| Invisibly Signing Documents | |
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| Changing the Appearance and Properties of Your Signature | |
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| Summary | |
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| Workshop | |
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| Protecting Your PDF Files | |
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| About Document Security with Acrobat | |
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| Applying Password Security for Opening a Document | |
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| Using Security to Restrict Access to Features | |
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| Applying User-Level Security with Digital Signatures | |
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| Changing Security Options | |
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| Digital Rights Management and eBook Security | |
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| Summary | |
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| Workshop | |
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| Forms and Buttons | |
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| Creating and Using Interactive Forms | |
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| The Power of Creating Forms in Acrobat | |
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| PDF Forms Versus HTML Forms | |
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| Creating Form Fields | |
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| Working with Form Fields | |
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| Validating and Calculating with a Form Field | |
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| Form Data Use Over the World Wide Web | |
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| Summary | |
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| Workshop | |
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| Using PDF Files for Multimedia Presentations | |
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| Enhancing a PDF with Multimedia | |
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| Using Movies and Sound Within PDF Files | |
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| Correct File Formats for Movie and Sound Files | |
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| General Information About Inserting Movies into PDF Documents | |
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| Inserting Sounds into PDF Documents | |
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| Adding Buttons Such as Stop, Play, and Pause | |
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| Important Considerations When Using Movies and Sounds | |
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| Using a Page Action to Play a Sound | |
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| Summary | |
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| Workshop | |
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| Using Acrobat for Presentations: The Full-Screen Mode | |
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| Creating Presentations | |
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| Design Considerations for Full-Screen Presentations | |
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| Setting Documents to Open in Full-Screen Mode | |
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| Changing Full-Screen Preferences | |
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| Summary | |
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| Workshop | |
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| Advanced Topics | |
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| Automating Acrobat with Batch Processing | |
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| Overview of Batch Processing | |
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| Using Predefined Batch Sequences | |
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| Editing the Batch Sequences | |
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| Creating Your Own Batch Sequence | |
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| Sharing Batch Sequences Among Other Computers | |
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| Useful Batch-Processing Examples | |
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| Summary | |
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| Workshop | |
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| Setting Preferences and Properties | |
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| Document Properties | |
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| Accessing Other Document Properties | |
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| Document Summary | |
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| Working with Document Preferences | |
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| Setting Table/Formatted Text Preferences | |
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| Web Capture Preferences | |
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| Internet Settings | |
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| Summary | |
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| Workshop | |
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| Searching Multiple PDF Files | |
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| Why Index Your PDF Documents? | |
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| Building a Searchable Index | |
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| Finding Versus Searching | |
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| Refining a Search | |
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| Purging and Rebuilding Indexes | |
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| Summary | |
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| Workshop | |
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| Designing PDF Documents | |
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| Paper Versus Digital | |
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| Screen Sizes and Resolution | |
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| Typeface Considerations | |
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| Graphic Resolution | |
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| Color Space | |
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| Summary | |
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| Workshop | |
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| Making PDF Files Accessible for All | |
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| Accessibility Features | |
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| Verifying Line Endings in a Reflowed PDF Document | |
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| Changing the Reflow Order in Tagged PDF Documents | |
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| Converting Existing PDF Documents to Accessible PDF Documents | |
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| Checking for Accessibility | |
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| Checking Accessibility | |
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| Editing the Logical Structure Tree Using the Tags Palette | |
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| Summary | |
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| Workshop | |
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| Printing with Acrobat | |
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| Printing Annotations | |
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| Printing Page Ranges and Nonconsecutive Pages | |
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| Printing a Portion of a Page | |
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| Adjusting Print Sizes | |
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| Printing Oversize Documents | |
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| Prepress Options in Print Settings | |
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| Trapping Key | |
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| Printing and Prepress Plug-ins | |
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| Troubleshooting Printing Problems | |
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| Summary | |
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| Workshop | |