Documents on the Web – Adobe Acrobat Hope Greenberg 14 February 2005

PDF vs. HTML PDF: Portable Document Format – author centric – smart photocopy, not text – needs plugin HTML: HyperText markup language – reader centric – flexible text – no plugin

Acrobat Choices Adobe Reader (was Acrobat Reader) – reads PDF files Adobe Acrobat Standard – create PDF files Adobe Acrobat Professional – creates PDF files, plus

Create PDF Files with Acrobat MS Office Files and more Print Command Multiple Files Scanner (To OCR or not OCR…) Web Pages (watch your depth!)

Exercise 1: Create a PDF Create a PDF file download/save:

PDF Navigation Aids >10? Should >20? Must!! Link back to web page >100: consider article/chapter PDFs Optimize

Exercise 2: Bookmarks/Links Easy way – let Word help: structure documents with styles Tedious way – manually

Exercise 3: Modifying PDF Files Rearranging pages Adding headers/footers Page Numbering

PDF Forms CGI, limitations In Acrobat, create/open: pdf

Other Features Layers for 4-color printing Reviewing: add comments to your documents, then send/share them with others for their comments OCR (Paper Capture)