Documents on the Web

1
Documents on the Web Adobe Acrobat

• Hope Greenberg
• 14 February 2005

2
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

3
Acrobat Choices

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

4
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!)

5
Exercise 1 Create a PDF

• Create a PDF file
• download/save
• http//www.uvm.edu/hag/courses/pdf/sample1.doc

6
PDF Navigation Aids

• gt10? Should
• gt20? Must!!
• Link back to web page
• gt100 consider article/chapter PDFs
• Optimize

7
Exercise 2 Bookmarks/Links

• Easy way
• let Word help structure documents with styles
• Tedious way
• manually
• http//www.uvm.edu/hag/courses/pdf/sample1.html

8
Exercise 3 Modifying PDF Files

• Rearranging pages
• Adding headers/footers
• Page Numbering

9
PDF Forms

• CGI, limitations
• In Acrobat, create/open
• http//www.uvm.edu/hag/courses/pdf/flexform.pdf

10
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)