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What’s PDF?
PDF means Portable Document Format, this means that all parts of an document as pictures, texts and fonts can be processed in this truce size and shows this ones afterwards on Web sites, intranet, CD-ROM, can be send by e-mail or later can be processed to prints, films, printings or Internet sites.
Required:
To read PDF-files you need Acrobat Reader.
To make PDF-files you need Acrobat Distiller. Press on our “How to make...” topic for details.
Working with Acrobat & PDF
How do I make an basic PDF file ?
- Nowadays there are 5 ways to make an PDF file.
Adobe Acrobat - with the Acrobat 4.0 you can translate web pages into PDF documents by Web Capture.
- PDF Writer - Works like an printer driver and sets the GDI or Quickdraw tasks to Windows and Macintosh applications to PDF documents. PDF Writer is meant for desktop applications.
- Acrobat Distiller - acts like as an PostScript interpreter that can be used to translate PostScript to PDF. Distiller is meant for the use and creation of PDF files that contains high-end print publishing features.
- Acrobat Capsule - is an Microsoft Windows OLE server Application that is designed for group conversion of image files to PDF and the recognition of the text in order to create findable text PDF files.
- Third party software - is an other source to translate documents like texts documents "on the fly" into PDF. See PDF Tools for more information.
What are Plug-ins?
- Plug-ins are dynamic-linked extensions for Acrobat [Exchange] or Acrobat Reader. These programs raise the functionality of Acrobat [Exchange] of Acrobat Reader.
Adobe Acrobat
Adobe Acrobat contains an complete set of tools to translate electonic files that are made in your favourite application to PDF and to show them again on your Web site, intranet, CD-ROM, can be send by e-mail or to process them into prints, proofs, films, printings or websites. Some of the new features of the 4.0 version are:
- Drag-and-drop PDF creation*
- Microsoft® Office integration*
- Paper Capture tool
- Automatic PDF optimizalisation
- Web Capture*
- Structured bookmarks*
- Digital signatures*
- Interactive survey and distinctions
- Document comparison*
- E-mail support*
* At first only available for Windows.
With Adobe(R) Acrobat(R) Capture(R) 2.01 software, you can easily translate enormous piles of paper into findable Portable Documents Formats (PDFs) libraries(Windows 95/98/NT).
- Set scanned page’s into Portable Document Format (PDF) - Acrobat Capture processes fonts and pages recognizing.
- Everybody with free Acrobat Reader software is able to find your PDF files on their Web browsers.
- PDF files can be find by standard Web search machines.
- Acrobat Capture works on almost every most-used scanning machines.
- Set on the groupsproces way, is able to translate thousand of pages (buy extra Page Packs in order to translate more. Ingesteld op de groepsproces wijze, kan uw systeem duizende pagina's omzetten ) p.s. als precies duizend is de zin “a thousand”
Requirements:
(Windows 95/98/NT/2000/ME)
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