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Bates-stamping over several sessions

Ernest Svenson

Bates-stamping is important if you want to keep track of documents you produce. If you don't have all of the documents ready at the same time, you'll need to conduct several production runs. In this article, PDFforLawyers.com's Ernest Svenson discusses the related issues and suggests one way to accomplish Bates-stamping over multiple sessions.

Enterprise & Government   September 11, 2011

Searching for PDFs on the web

Dan Shea

Given the sheer amount of content on the web these days, it can be useful to filter results based on file format. In this PDF article, Dan Shea has a quick look at a recently released PDF-only search engine, explains how to find PDFs quickly using Google, and briefly compares the two.

Enterprise & Government   June 19, 2011

Best Acrobat keyboard shortcuts -- a handy list

Ernest Svenson

Acrobat is a powerful program with a lot of features. Unfortunately, this can mean that it can also take a little while to find the features that you want via the classic mouse-based approach. To help users get the most out of Acrobat, PDFforLawyers.com's Ernest Svenson has made a list of his favorite keyboard shortcuts -- downloadable as a PDF, of course.

Enterprise & Government   June 16, 2011

Problem when printing PDF and page comes out grey?

Ernest Svenson

After a question from one of his readers, PDFforLawyers.com's Ernest Svenson seeks to resolve what seems to be a common problem with printing PDF documents and having them improperly come out gray. He explores the issue in this article.

Enterprise & Government   March 13, 2011

Shortcut for fast PDF page navigation

Ernest Svenson

Of all the shortcuts you need to know, being able to quickly jump to a particular page in a PDF is most important. Let's say you have a 43 page PDF and you're reviewing it with someone by phone. They ask you to jump to page 30, and you're on page 1. How quickly can you jump to page 30?

Enterprise & Government   February 28, 2011

Two really useful shortcuts in Acrobat

Ernest Svenson

Spending the time to learn shortcuts will help you get the most out of any software, and that's especially true of Acrobat. Here's a quick tip from PDFforLawyers.com's Ernest Svenson that makes use of two important shortcuts.

Enterprise & Government   February 08, 2011

Convert and combine different files in Acrobat

Dan Shea

One neat thing about PDF is its ability to represent content from disparate sources, such as images, formatted text content, spreadsheets and graphs -- and that's not even mentioning the multimedia or 3D options. In fact, it's a simple matter to combine a collection of PDFs or other files into a single, self-contained PDF.

Enterprise & Government   August 27, 2009

Rotating PDF pages in Acrobat

Dan Shea

When you compile a PDF from multiple sources, you might find that some of the pages are sideways or inverted when you try to view them on-screen. Never fear! Acrobat can be used to rotate individual pages within a PDF document.

Enterprise & Government   August 27, 2009

Simplest PDF creation with Acrobat

Dan Shea

Sometimes, you just want to convert a file into a PDF document -- fast. With Acrobat, the task can be as simple as right-clicking. While this doesn't work with all file types, it is perfect for use with text files, Excel spreadsheets, Word documents, HTML files, image files and various other file formats.

Enterprise & Government   August 27, 2009

Reordering pages in Acrobat

Dan Shea

Sometimes, you need to change the page order of your PDF documents. Luckily, you don't need to re-recreate the file from scratch, as it's a simple matter to re-order pages in Acrobat. In fact, it's as easy as dragging-and-dropping.

Enterprise & Government   June 04, 2009

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