Creating PDF Files

Microsoft Word and Excel Macros for Windows 95 and Windows NT 4.0 New macros for Word and Excel add a "Create Adobe PDF" option to the File menus of both applications. Choosing the Create Adobe PDF option automatically switches to the PDF Writer driver, creates the PDF file, and then switches back to the previously selected printer driver. Acrobat Distiller The Distiller lets you convert visually rich Adobe PostScript language files created in image editing, illustration, and page layout applications to PDF.

Converting Paper Documents to PDF With Acrobat for Windows, scanning and OCR, complete with page recognition, is fast and easy. Users can import all the leading image formats, or scan and convert almost any printed business document into PDF. Letters, memos, and faxes lying dormant in file cabinets come back to life electronically. PDF files are fully searchable and retain all their original layout, including fonts, images, tables, and even multicolumn text. And for batch-converting entire volumes or archives of paper documents to PDF for posting online, use Acrobat Capture software. PDF Writer Use the PDF Writer to easily "print" everyday business documents from any application to PDF.

Enhancing PDF Files

Interactive Forms Companies can use Acrobat to create visually rich, interactive forms that include features such as pop-up lists and radio buttons. For the first time, your Web forms can preserve your corporate identity.	Dynamic Controls Acrobat makes it easy to add dynamic controls (interactive buttons) that trigger sound and QuickTime or AVI movies in any PDF file. Users can publish PDF files from their desktop to any media that suits their needs, including CD-ROM, e-mail (as an attachment), an intranet, or external Web site.

Integrated Viewing

	Page-on-Demand Access Page-at-a-time downloading of PDF files across the Internet ensures fast display of PDF documents.	Progressive Rendering Progressive rendering of PDF pages means that text is rendered first (using a substitute font if necessary), followed by hypertext links and images. Any embedded fonts are drawn on-screen last, ensuring quick viewing of the information.
Integrated Viewing Acrobat 3.0 offers integrated viewing of PDF files directly within the leading Web browsers, including Netscape® Navigator ® 3.0, Netscape Communicator™ 4.0, and Microsoft Internet Explorer 3.0 and later.

Review and Mark Up Documents Electronically

Say goodbye to frustrating, time-consuming document review cycles. That's right, no more software and platform incompatibilities that make sharing files a nightmare, and no more long e-mails and cryptic handwritten notes that make assembling comments nearly impossible. Now, you can streamline your review process from start to finish using Adobe Acrobat software. Here's how.

Convert documents to Portable Document Format (PDF)
Convert your document to a compact PDF file that faithfully preserves the look of the original. Working in Microsoft Office on a PC? Just choose File > Create PDF File from within Word, Excel, or PowerPoint. Or simply drag and drop the file onto the Acrobat application icon for instant PDF conversion.

Convert Microsoft Office documents to PDF files in one simple step. All of the original fonts, formatting, colors, and images remain intact.

In fact, you can easily convert files created in all your favorite applications. You can even create PDF files from scanned paper documents. With Acrobat, you can convert, view, and print PDF documents containing text in 12 languages, so you can share and review documents with colleagues and clients around the world.

Modify, enhance, and share PDF files

After you convert your document to PDF, you can modify and enhance it directly within Acrobat. Create thumbnail views to easily move, copy, and delete pages. Insert pages from other documents or combine pages from different sources to create a single new PDF file. Then add bookmarks and links for easy navigation.

When your document is just right, send it as an e-mail attachment on your PC using the convenient Send Mail feature or post it on your corporate server for review. Because it's a PDF file, recipients can view and print the document, exactly as you created it, on any system.

Interactively review documents

Speed up review cycles by marking up documents electronically.

When the marked-up PDF file is returned, you can automatically generate a summary of reviewers' comments organized by author and, on your PC, you can use the Document Compare feature to view pre-and post-review versions of the document. So viewing and sorting reviewers' feedback is a snap.

Acrobat on the Job

When you use Adobe Acrobat to convert and distribute your documents in Adobe Portable Document Format (PDF), you can rest assured that anyone anywhere can view and print your documents exactly as you created them. But the power and utility of Acrobat doesn't end there. A host of features and capabilities, including electronic document markup tools, security controls, interactive forms creation, and much more, help make Acrobat the premier tool for exchanging information with colleagues and customers around the world.

Below are several examples of how people in a variety of professions can use Acrobat software to make their jobs easier and their workflow more productive.

Engineers

Financial Analysts or Advisors

Apply security options to sensitive documents to control access to confidential information.

Graphic Designers

Distribute advertisements, brochures, catalogs, direct mail, and Web sites in PDF for electronic comments and approvals, accurately preserving the visual integrity of your designs as well as your client's brand identity.

Create a digital archive of completed projects.

Send PDF files electronically to prepress service providers and professional printers with all the font and image data necessary for reliable, accurate preflighting and printing.

Legal Professionals

Convert, distribute, store, and search PDF libraries of contracts, correspondence, receipts, scanned handwritten notes, pleadings, briefs, and memos.

Marketing Professionals

Distribute product plans, brochures, data sheets, white papers, and presentations in PDF to make product information easily accessible to colleagues and customers.

Project Managers

Distribute schedules, road maps, and calendars in PDF to keep track of complex projects.

Sales Professionals

Deliver collateral and newsletters in PDF on intranets and servers to equip field sales teams with accurate, up-to-date information.

Easily access and print product or service quotes, contracts, and brochures using Acrobat forms to quickly provide customers with information on request.

Web Administrators

Post PDF documents online, without having to reauthor content in HTML, to provide timely information to employees, partners, customers, and site visitors.

Convert paper forms to PDF to gather and process information from employees and customers online.

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Windows System Requirements: i386, i486, Pentium, or Pentium Pro processor-based personal computer • Microsoft Windows 3.1, Windows 95, or Windows NT 3.51 or later • 8 MB of RAM (16 MB for Windows NT) for Acrobat Reader, Acrobat Exchange, or Acrobat Catalog • 16 MB of RAM (24 MB for Windows NT) for Acrobat Distiller or Acrobat Capture Plug-in • CD-ROM drive (1.44 MB floppy disks available on request)

Recommended: Pentium processor-based personal computer • Windows 95 or Windows NT 16 MB of RAM (24 MB for Windows NT) • CD-ROM drive • 40 MB of available hard-disk space

Macintosh and Power Macintosh System Requirements: Macintosh with a 68020 or greater processor, or Power Macintosh • 3.5 MB of RAM (5 MB for Power Macintosh) available to Acrobat Reader • 4 MB of RAM (6 MB for Power Macintosh) available to Acrobat Exchange • 6 MB of RAM (8 MB for Power Macintosh) available to Distiller • 16 MB of RAM available to Acrobat Capture Plug-in (Acrobat Capture Plug-in available only for Power Macintosh) • Apple System Software version 7.0 or later • CD-ROM drive (1.44 MB floppy disks available on request)

Recommended: Power Macintosh (required for Acrobat Capture Plug-in) • 16 MB of RAM • 24 MB of RAM available to Acrobat Capture Plug-in • Apple System Software version 7.1.2 or later • CD-ROM drive • 40 MB of available hard-disk space