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Adobe Prerelease Program

Are you interested in finding out about the latest Adobe software? If so, you can sign up to try Adobe beta software with their prerelease program. You’ll get to experiment with new software and let Adobe know what can be improved. As with all beta software, you should be aware that prerelease programs may have […]

Examining Fonts in a PDF File

If you receive a PDF file from someone else, you may want to check on the document’s fonts. Acrobat can tell us which fonts are used in the PDF and if they’re embedded or not. Here’s how:

Open a PDF in Acrobat
Go to File > Properties
Click on Fonts
Here Acrobat lists all the fonts used in the […]

Export PDF Tables to Microsoft Excel

You can easily convert tables in a PDF file to Excel. This is generally a good idea if you’re making extensive changes to the tables. To do so:

Open your PDF file that contains a table
Choose the select tool by going to Tools > Select and Zoom > Select Tool
Highlight the table in your PDF file
Right […]

How to Scan and OCR Concurrently

If you have a scanner available and Adobe Acrobat, you can scan and use the OCR (Optical Character Recognition) process at the same time. OCR converts your scanned image into editable text. Here’s how:

Open Acrobat and go to File > Create PDF > From Scanner
Select your scanner from the Scanner dropdown menu
Under Text Recognition check […]

Printing Comments in Acrobat

Acrobat has a lot of great commenting tools, but what good are they if you can’t print them out? If you find that your comments are not printing just follow these easy steps:

Open a PDF with comments
Go to File > Print
For the Comment and Forms option choose Document and Markup
You’ll see that the Preview Window […]