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Adobe Acrobat Help
Working with PDF
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Working with PDF
Acrobat allows you to edit PDF documents in a variety of ways. You can edit text and
graphics within a file, and you can edit images and line art using Adobe Photoshop 6.0
and Adobe Illustrator 9.0 from within a PDF document. You can also crop and rotate pages
in a PDF document. You can rearrange the order of pages in a document, add new pages,
or extract pages from a PDF document and create a new document with them. You can
combine two or more PDF files to create a new PDF document file. You can delete pages,
and you can renumber pages. You can also use the Batch Processing command to define
and apply a sequence of commands to one or more documents.
Acrobat 5.0 also allows you to more easily extract the content—text or images—of a PDF
file.You can extract all the text in a PDF file using the Save As command and then save the
content in Rich Text Format (RTF). You can also save an image of each page of the PDF file
using the Save As command, or you can export all images within a PDF file to an image
format using the Extract Images As command.
Important:
You cannot copy or export text and graphics from any PDF file if the security
settings for that file are set to prevent copying.
Copying PDF text and graphics to other applications
Acrobat 5.0 gives you powerful commands for repurposing or extracting text and graphics
in PDF files. You can use the Save As command to save all text in a PDF file in Rich Text
Format (RTF) for import into your favorite authoring application. If your PDF files use
tagged Adobe PDF, you can extract the text without losing the formatting. For example,
you can save pages of tables from a PDF file for import into an application such as Adobe
FrameMaker or Microsoft Word and the table formatting will be preserved. Both
PDFMaker and Acrobat Web Capture create tagged Adobe PDF automatically. (See
“About
the different types of Adobe PDF documents” on page 82
.)
You can also use the Save As command to save each page in a PDF file to an image format.
You can use the Export command to export all images in a PDF file; each image is saved in
a separate file.
In addition, Acrobat provides several tools—the text select tool, the column select tool,
the table/formatted text select tool, and the graphics select tool—for copying and pasting
small amounts of text and graphics from a PDF file to your clipboard. You can also paste
text from a PDF document into a comment or bookmark name. While in a PDF document,
you select the text or graphic and copy it onto the clipboard. Once the text or graphic is on
the clipboard, you can launch the other application and paste the text or graphic into a
file. If the other application supports Object Linking and Embedding (OLE), you can use
OLE commands to paste text into an OLE compound document. For more information, see
“Incorporating PDF documents in documents with OLE support” on page 122
.
Note:
If a font copied from a PDF document is not available on the system displaying the
copied text, a default font is substituted.