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Creating Adobe PDF Files
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Using an authoring application’s Save As or Export command
In some authoring applications, including Adobe FrameMaker and Adobe PageMaker, you
can use a Save As or Export command to create an Adobe PDF file from the current
document. See the documentation that came with your application for information on
converting files this way.
Converting image, HTML, and text files
You can convert BMP, CompuServe® GIF, HTML, JPEG, PCX, PICT (Mac OS only), PNG, Text,
or TIFF files to Adobe PDF by opening the files in Acrobat using the Open as Adobe PDF
command or by dragging the file onto the Acrobat icon or window.
To create an Adobe PDF file using the Open as Adobe PDF command:
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In Acrobat, choose File > Open as Adobe PDF. Select your file type from the Files of Type
pop-up menu, and browse to locate your file. Select the file you want to convert to Adobe
PDF.You can Control-click to select multiple files or Shift-click to select a contiguous range
of files.
2
Click Settings to change the color and grayscale compression conversion settings. (The
Settings button is grayed out if the option is not available for the selected file type. The
Settings button is also grayed out if you choose All Files, even if your file type is
supported.)
3
Click Open.
4
In the alert, select whether to append the converted files to the current document or
open them in a new document. Click OK.
When you use the Save As command on multiple image files, you create a separate
PDF file for each image file. If you want to consolidate the converted files into one PDF file,
use the Document > Insert Pages command.
To create an Adobe PDF file by dragging an image file into Acrobat:
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Do one of the following:
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Drag the image file onto the Acrobat icon on your desktop. The file will open as an
Adobe PDF file.
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Drag the image file into the open Acrobat window.
Note:
If you have a document open in the Acrobat window and you drag in an image,
HTML, or text file, the pages in the file will be converted to Adobe PDF and appended at the
end of the open file.
Converting scanned documents to Adobe PDF
You can use Acrobat with a scanner to create a PDF file from a paper document. The
resulting file is a PDF Image Only file—that is, a bitmap picture of the pages that can be
viewed in Acrobat but not searched.
If you want to be able to search, correct, and copy the text in an Image Only file, you can
“capture” the pages in the file. See
“Capturing pages to convert to searchable text” on
page 35
.