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Creating PDF Booklets in Acrobat

At times, you may want to print a PDF file in booklet form. Acrobat has some basic booklet options in the print menu. If you open Acrobat and go to Print, you’ll see Booklet Printing under the Page Scaling section. Below Page Scaling, Acrobat has Binding and Booklet Subset options.
If you’re looking for more […]

Make a Blank PDF in Acrobat 7

We talk mostly about Acrobat 8, but here is a quick tip for Acrobat 7. Did you know that you can create a blank PDF file in Acrobat 7? To do this:

Open Acrobat 7
Hold down the Shift key and go to File > Create PDF > From Blank Page
That will open a blank document that […]

Make a PDF from a Web Page without Headers & Footers

You may know that Acrobat can convert web pages into PDF. This feature is nice, but the look of the final product is often spoiled by unnecessary headers and footers. Let’s fix that:

Open Acrobat and go to File > Create PDF from Web Page
Type in the address in the URL section
Click Settings and uncheck the […]

Remove PDFMaker from Microsoft Office

People sometimes want to remove the Acrobat icons from Microsoft Office. You can remove the PDFMaker buttons from all of Office or just certain programs like Outlook. Here’s how:

On Windows XP go to Add or Remove Programs in the Control Panel
Click on Acrobat and click Change/Remove
Click Next and then Modify
After that click on the plus […]

Saving PDF Files in Other Formats

You can save PDF files in many different formats including JPG images and RTF files (Rich Text Format). To convert your PDF to another file type:

Open a PDF file and go to File > Save As
Give the file a new name
For the Save As Type choose whatever format you’d like. We chose TIFF, which is […]