How to Use the Acrobat PDFMaker in Adobe Acrobat 7

Learn how to use the Acrobat PDFMaker in Adobe Acrobat 7.

Attach source file to Adobe PDF is an interesting option, and actually I use this one frequently. It's often the case that I want to share a file with somebody that's a PDF because I don't want them to change it and I need it to look exactly like it looked to me. However, I also might want to give them access to the text and the other information in the file in a Word file. So I kind of want them to have the best of both worlds; the document as it looked to me and the raw authoring content of the document. To achieve that, I can simply attach the source file to the Adobe PDF. When I do that, the Adobe PDF will actually have a little attachment icon, and I can double click on that to open the Word files, so I kind of have the best of both worlds. So I am going to go ahead and leave that on for this example. Add bookmarks to the Adobe PDF. This is a switch that you turn on or off; I am going to leave it on, and in a moment we are going to talk about the Bookmarks tab up here, and when we come back to that I will show you how to adjust the bookmarks. But if you turn this on, then they will find their way into the PDF file. If you turn it off, then the bookmarks that we are asking this process to create won't be in the PDF, and we will learn more about that shortly. Links to the Adobe PDF. It's possible to create hyperlinks in a Word file. For example, an email address or something like that; will actually be known to Word as a hyperlink. That hyperlink will also work in the PDF file. If you turn this function on, then that hyperlink will become active in the PDF file; and we will take a look at that once we have created the PDF. Then the accessibility and reflow with Tagged PDF is somewhat of an esoteric thing, but it's actually fairly important for a number of different reasons. The most easy to describe reason is the fact that people who can't see a computer use screen reading devices to actually have the document read aloud; in fact, Acrobat has such a device built into it. If you don't enable accessibility and reflow with Tagged PDF, the screen readers can get confused, especially in multicolumn documents, because it really doesn't know where one sentence ends and where the other one begins and such. So it's always a good idea to leave it on, because it doesn't do anything bad to the file, it might even increase the file size in a negligible way but not enough to make any real difference, and so it's a good idea to leave it on.