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Enlarge page with Adobe Acrobat?
I have a scanned document where a couple pages were generated with the wrong DPI setting and as a result they're too small. I'd like to scale up the pages. I notice that I can scale individual images, ...
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Acrobat: keyboard shortcuts to toggle page display (single page / two-up)?
Is there a keyboard shortcut to toggle page display in Acrobat (Reader or Professional) from single-page to two-up? (And even from continuous to 'normal')
(I know the various shortcuts for changing ...
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Speeding up the browsing of PDFs in Adobe Acrobat
I have the most recent version of Adobe Acrobat 9 (9.0.5) installed on a relatively powerful workstation: A Windows 7 64 bit machine with 96 GB of RAM and two six-core processors Intel Xeon X5690 @ ...
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How to prevent changes after “rendering” Acrobat Pro PDF file
I have PDF file that consists of various photos, a media music player, and some text I wrote with the PDF maker before "rendering it" to its final version in PDF.
I followed an Adobe tutorial which ...
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Increasing margins of all pages in a pdf file
I need to increase the top and bottom margins of all the pages in a pdf file, or alternatively increase the size of each page so as to add a little white space at the top and the bottom. How can I do ...
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Preserve embedded objects when converting a Word File to PDF using Acrobat Pro 9
I thought this was a basic feature but I can't seem to find a solution:
If I want to convert a Word file which has other files embedded as an object to PDF, the embedded Word symbol is not clickable ...
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Resizing a selection in Adobe Acrobat X Pro
When working with block selections, you can resize the area by dragging the handles on each of the four corners. However, I can't seem to find a way to resize the area by dragging a single side of the ...
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Why does Acrobat X Pro show documents blurry briefly after compression?
I am using Adobe Acrobt X Pro and utilize the tool under document processing labeled "Optimize Scanned PDF". When doing so, it always warns me:
Acrobat has detected a page that is already optimized. ...
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acrobat pro 9 - how to automatically open video full screen when clicking poster image
I'm using acrobat pro 9 to embed video into a pdf. However, the video, when clicked, plays inside the pdf, and you have to right click and choose open in full screen to get it to play full screen. We ...
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Unable to stop the image appearing outside frame when InDesign
I am using InDesign CS2 and importing an image into a graphics box with crop to trim ticked. But when I PDF it the image shows outside the frame area. Using distiller and acrobat pro 7.0 there does ...
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open the current pdf file, opened in Adobe Reader X, in Adobe Acrobat 9
I have Adobe Acrobat Pro 9. However, in most PDF readings, I only need a simple functionality that Adobe Reader X has. So, I like to make Adobe Reader X my default PDF handler, and like to open the ...
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How to scale page size down in Adobe Acrobat X Pro?
I scanned a document on a scanner at a friend's house and the pdf ended up being 35 inches by 45 inches in size. I think this the cause of the trouble had for the person I sent it to, they get the ...
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How do I close the Adobe Acrobat X welcome screen?
How do I close the welcome screen in Adobe Acrobat X (also Acrobat Pro X). It's very annoying to see this every time you start the program and have no document open.
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shrink size of page horizontally in Acrobat
I want to put two pages on one piece of paper, vertically, so that each page's length doesn't change but it's with is cut in half.
How do I do this?
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Known issue with Acobat Reader 10 [closed]
As some of you know, Acrobat reader is now at version 10. We have a software that is developped in VB.net 2005 and uses ReportViewer 2005 to generate PDF. People have been reporting problem. I for ...
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Is there any way to embed tables from excel that have pull down menu
I may not be using the correct terminoloby, but, here goes. We have setup an Excel spreadsheet that is formatted into multiple 8.5 x 11 pages on one tab. The spread sheet has tables with a pull down ...
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How to “Group” pages, outline-style.. within a larger PDF?
In Acrobat, is their any way to delineate - or say, to group - certain pages "together"? For example, below... Page 4 is part of a different "series", but there doesn't seem to be a way to make that ...
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Printing from Adobe: Bates numbers won't print
I'm working in Adobe Pro 8.0. The Bates numbers suddenly do not print, although they appear on the screen. This is a new issue--older documents with Bates numbers are unaffected. Any idea where I ...
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Links and Back within PDF
I have a PDF document that has links in various places to figures/tables that are towards the end of the document. Let's say I have a link on page 2 that you click to go to Figure 7. I have the same ...
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Adobe Livecycle Designer equivalent for mac?
Is there any software out there like Adobe Livecycle Designer for mac? ... where we can easily design pdf forms and still be compatible with Acrobat Pro.
Does anyone know if they will make it for ...
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What is the Radio button symbol for Microsoft Word that Acrobat understands when converting to PDF form
Someone has sent me a survey they had created in Microsoft Word, with a bunch of questions that need to be converted into a PDF form. I have no problem creating textboxes or checkboxes by using ...
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Change shortcuts in Acrobat 8
How do I change and manage shortcuts inside of Acrobat 8? (This is the full version not reader)
I know with other Adobe Programs you can do this yet I cannot find a way in Acrobat. Ideas?
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What source document format can be exported to PDF and generate digital signature fields?
My team wants to send out to 3rd parties a contract in PDF format, with digital signature fields that could be signed using Adobe Reader.
Every time we add a new 3rd party to the contract, we are ...
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How do I edit a PDF in Acrobat if it rather than LiveCycle
I want to edit the the fields of a PDF in Acrobat using Forms->Add or Edit Fields which I know how to use.
Unfortunately, a new form I want to edit seems to have been made in LiveCycle designer ...
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Fonts in PDF files: How do I ensure that a font will render properly across platforms/readers?
I created a document in MS Word (2007) and then published to PDF with the intention of creating a document that looks the same regardless of platform or pdf reader choice.
It looks fine on a couple ...
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How can I change the program that Adobe Acrobat uses for editing images?
When I try to edit an image within Adobe Acrobat 8.1, it will try to open the image using a Nero program and will fail. I want it to open it with Photoshop, but I can't get it to do that. How do I ...
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Printing a PDF results in garbled text (sometimes)
We have a system that renders a report as a PDF, and displays it in the browser for the user. In the browser, the document always appears to display fine, but when printed on one machine, it ...
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How can I “mass merge” a lot of FDF files to a PDF template?
I have a series of about 600 FDF files that I need to "mass merge" to a PDF, and would like to save each one out as an individual PDF.
If I double-click the FDF individually, the merge happens.
I ...
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Is it possible to add a reload button to Adobe Reader's toolbar?
Current Adobe Reader 9.4.2 allows you to press Ctrl+R to reload an opened PDF. However, there seems to be no way to add that functionality to the toolbar.
Do you know of any custom scripts that would ...
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How do you move an object without resizing it in Acrobat Pro?
Many times when I try to move a callout box or text box using the Select Object tool (R) or the Hand tool (H), I accidentally resize it. In photoshop, there is a Move tool (V) that lets you move an ...
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How to crop in Adobe Acrobat X(10)?
I'm unable to get the crop functionality to work at all in Adobe Acrobat 10, and their help is only online and is completely non-helpful.
Can someone explain exactly how to crop an image in Adobe ...
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Removing Objects & Images from 600 page Adobe Acrobat X file - How?
How do you remove Images & Objects from a 600 page Adobe Acrobat X file ? Any suggestion are welcome.
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Any PDF reader that shows grids?
I know Acrobat Pro shows grids for PDF files. Is there any other PDF reader that shows grids?
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Increase font size in Adobe Acrobat Pro
I have a PDF that I got by converting a web page to PDF.
Adobe won't let me select all text (which would let me increase the font size). The annoying part is that I am able to open each object ...
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What does “Optimizing performance…” in Acrobat mean?
When the Acrobat installer says "Optimizing performance...", what is it actually doing?
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Document links pointing to other .docx files are broken in a combined .pdf conversion
Let's say you have 5 .docx files, A-E. Some links in A.docx point to (probably relatively) to B.docx. So you would have a sentence in A.docx that says something like "For more information on this ...
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Would it be possible to show line numbers as part of the pdf document
Would it be possible to show line numbers as part of the pdf document. What option should I use?
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document within both Pro and Acrobat Reader
I have Adobe Acrobat Pro 7 for Windows XP. How do I go about making our PDFs read only and Enable Commenting so that once saved users are unable to modify the PDF content but are still able to add ...
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Is there a better way to correct errors in Adobe Acrobat's OCR results?
I'm using OCR Text Recognition integrated into Adobe Acrobat Pro 8 to produce an (invisible) searchable text overlay for text pages I have scanned. This is very neat for copying some phrases to the ...
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Why do some pdf/acrobat files not support “previous view”?
I have several pdfs that have the "Previous View" (alt-back arrow) option disabled/grayed out. I'm not the only one with this unresolved problem.
Does anyone know why and if it's possible to fix ...
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Add Margins to PDF generated via “Printing” in Safari
I've built a web page that I'm turning into a PDF using the "Save as PDF" function built into the print functionality in Safari on OS X. Trouble is, when I generate a PDF in this manner, it doesn't ...
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PDF files open with a dark overlay?
Windows XP
Adobe Acrobat Pro 9 with the latest updates
This is one of my user's machines. They have basic user rights, non-admin. Opening a PDF file renders the document, but with a dark overlay. ...
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How can I digitally sign a PDF document quickly and cheaply?
I need to digital sign a PDF document. However, Acrobat reader does not let me sign documents. I just need to sign the document, not edit it.
Do I need to buy the full Acrobat software?
Or is there ...
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Linux vulnerable to PDF attacks?
I've heard of attacks using PDF files on Windows with Adobe Acrobat and Foxit Reader.
Is Linux vulnerable to these attacks when using the default PDF viewers in KDE or Gnome or even xpdf? What is a ...
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Adobe Acrobat - How To Print Shaded Areas
I have a PDF document which has shaded areas (code fragments, to be precise) and I am looking to print the document out with shading in tact. The shading is light grey (as used on ...
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Adobe watermark error “an error was encountered while retrieving page content”
I get this error in Adobe 10 when applying a watermark to a document "an error was encountered while retrieving page content" I created the document myself and can apply the watermark on other docs I ...
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Remove Linux Adobe Acrobat Reader installed from binary
On a Debian system, I installed Adobe Acrobat Reader using the Linux binary (AdbeRdr9.4.2-1_i486linux_enu.bin) downloaded from Adobe's website. What's the right way to uninstall Reader when it was ...
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Adobe pdf searchable [closed]
Is it possible Adobe where if a user types a keyword, Adobe will search from the OCR'd data and when found, will display the portion of the image on screen?
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Firefox and Acrobat - what happened to the Acrobat toolbar?
I just installed the latest version of Firefox and Acrobat Reader on a new Windows 7 box. Bringing up a PDF in the browser was a big surprise - the toolbar is gone! Where's the Save As button? Where's ...
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Activate comments in PDF
I am generating PDF files with pdflatex and I would like my PDF to allow comments/annotations (without having to use Acrobat Professional to write the comments). pdflatex cannot enable comments in PDF ...
