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Adding Headers and Footers in Acrobat

Donna Baker

Along with assigning page numbers to documents, you can add precise headers and footers to the pages. When adding them in Acrobat, you should avoid using source documents with visible headers and footers to prevent confusion. Donna Baker explores how it's done.

Enterprise & Government   May 26, 2004

Streamlining your review process

This tip from Adobe.com explains how to make the best use of Acrobat's commenting features and integration with Office 2002 to optimize your collaborative workflow.

Enterprise & Government   May 13, 2004

Adding Page Labels

Dave Wraight

A nice feature in Acrobat is the ability to 'name' or label pages with meaningful descriptions rather than just page numbers. In this Acrobat Tip, Dave Wraight explains how.

Enterprise & Government   May 12, 2004

Linking to Pages or Destinations Within PDFs

Dan Shea

Ever wanted to link through to specific pages or named destinations within your PDF files? This tip from Dan Shea explains how.

Enterprise & Government   April 29, 2004

Configuring the Pages Pane in Acrobat

Donna Baker

The default layout of the Pages pane displays a single column of small thumbnail pictures of the pages. When working with a very large document, you might want to make the thumbnails smaller and increase the number of thumbnail columns to see more at once. We explore the Pages pane.

Enterprise & Government   April 22, 2004

Preflighting for PDF/X-Compliance with Acrobat

Verify that a PDF document is PDF/X-compliant in Adobe Acrobat 6.0 Professional before submitting the document to a service provider. Take a look.

Creative & Print   April 16, 2004

Adding Your Own Text to PDFs with Acrobat

Dave Wraight

If you've ever had the need to add text to a PDF after you've created it, then read on. By utilising the Text Annotation Tool it's possible to add new text to your PDF file.

Enterprise & Government   April 15, 2004

Instant Printing From a JavaScript PopUpMenu

Dave Wraight

The following JavaScript code can be added to a button, bookmark or even link. When the user activates the button / bookmark / link a popup menu will be displayed on screen listing the page numbers (in page blocks of 20). If the user selects a page number that page will be silently printed to the default printer, no dialog boxes will be displayed.

Developer   April 14, 2004

Adding Articles to your PDFs with Acrobat

Dave Wraight

Have you ever tried out the Article tool in Acrobat? In many cases it enhances the online reading experience by guiding the reader through content spread over multiple columns and pages. We show you how it can be used.

Enterprise & Government   April 13, 2004

Converting HTML Web Pages to PDF

Dave Wraight

Acrobat's Web Capture Plugin converts Web pages or entire Web sites into a single PDF file, including graphics and links. We explore two modes for converting HTML files: local HTML and online HTML.

Enterprise & Government   April 08, 2004

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