Adobe Reader software (which you can grab from www.adobe.com; more
than 500 million copies have already been downloaded). PDFs include
embedded fonts and color profile information for more accurate color
rendering across different systems. You can expect the PDFs you create to
look the same way on another computer as it does on your computer.
ment and choose a PostScript printer driver to save the output as a PostScript
file. Adobe offers the rather expensive Adobe Distiller product to convert
PostScript to PDF, but there are also free applications, such as Free PDF
Converter (www.primopdf.com) and Pdf995 (www.pdf995.com), and inexpen-
sive commercial products, such as CutePDF (www.cutepdf.com). Adobe also
offers server products for creating PDFs in an enterprise, eliminating the
need for PDF creation applications on desktops.
files, which lets you collect documents, emails, graphics, spreadsheets, and
other attachments into a PDF file that preserves the integrity of the layout,
whether the pages are oriented horizontally, vertically, or mixed. Acrobat
also allows you to password-protect PDF files to prevent unauthorized viewing
and altering, while also enabling authorized reviewers to use commenting and
editing tools.
form shapes around portions of text, add comments in separate windows,
and even add voice comments and attachments, as shown in Figure 4-10.
When you receive a PDF file with comments appended to it, you decide
which comments to incorporate--and it's easy to copy and paste comments
from the Adobe Reader or Acrobat window into your document. You can
even use Acrobat to export the text in PDF files--including comments--into
RTF files or Word docs. And you can search PDF files for words appearing in
the text and in annotations, bookmarks, and data fields.
accepts Word and WordPerfect documents, but also Adobe Illustrator, InDesign,
FrameMaker, PageMaker, and Photoshop files. Visit https://createpdf.adobe.com to
learn more.
Web. It is also the most useful format for sending documents to printers.
The free Adobe Reader application can open, display, and print PDF files on
all versions of Windows and Macintosh systems and Linux. The same PDF file
will print on a cheap inkjet printer as well as on an expensive imagesetter.
PDF files can contain multimedia elements like movies or sound as well as
hypertext elements like bookmarks, links to email addresses or web pages,
and thumbnail views of pages.