User manual ADOBE ACROBAT 9 HOW-TOS

[. . . ] From the Library of Daniel Dadian Adobe AcrobAt 9 HoW-tos 125 essentiAl tecHniques Donna L. Baker From the Library of Daniel Dadian Adobe Acrobat 9 How-Tos 125 Essential Techniques Donna L. Baker This Adobe Press book is published by Peachpit For information on Adobe Press books, contact: Peachpit 1249 Eighth Street Berkeley, CA 94710 510/524-2178 510/524-2221 (fax) To report errors, please send a note to errata@peachpit. com Peachpit is a division of Pearson Education For the latest on Adobe Press books, go to www. adobe. com/adobepress Copyright © 2009 by Donna Baker Editors: Becky Morgan, Valerie Witte Production Editor: Tracey Croom Copyeditor: Elizabeth Welch Proofreader: Elissa Rabellino Compositor: ICC Macmillan Inc. Indexer: Rebecca Plunkett Cover design: Mimi Heft Interior design: Mimi Heft Notice of Rights All rights reserved. [. . . ] Click Save As again, (continued on next page) From the Library of Daniel Dadian 168 retype the name of your theme, and click Save. You're asked if you want to overwrite the existing theme-- which you do, of course. · · · · · · Click Background Image > Change to open a dialog where you can locate and select a JPEG image to use as the background behind the slides, playbar, and toolbar. To select Customize options, do one of the following: Click the Enable Mode Switching check box, and select either Default or Fullscreen from the Display pop-up menu to offer users optional presentation sizes. To customize the content shown at the upper right of the sidebar, select and deselect the Presenter Info check boxes. Select and deselect the panes you want to show in the presentation; choose a pane to display as the default from the Default pop-up menu. Customize the Loading Text By default, Presenter displays a loading screen that reads "Adobe Presenter" while your presentation is loading. Personalize the presentation with your business name or other text on the loading screen instead. Open a presentation in PowerPoint, and save and publish the presentation to your computer to copy the files locally. When you've finished, click Save as, and type a name for your custom theme in the dialog that displays. Click OK to save the theme and include it in the Theme list for future use (Figure 64b). 1. In Windows Explorer, locate this folder: c:\Documents and Settings\ [user name] \ My Documents\My Adobe Presentations\ [PresentationName] \ data. (continued on next page) Figure 64b The customized theme is shown as the default theme. 6. Click OK to close the Theme Editor and return to the Presentation Settings dialog. Notice how the theme you've customized is now shown in the Themes area of the dialog, and the label displays as "My Current Theme. " Click OK to dismiss the dialog and return to your project. In order to see the changes you've made to the theme live, you have to publish the presentation. See how in #69, "Previewing and Publishing. " Chapter NiNe Building Content with Adobe Presenter From the Library of Daniel Dadian 169 Note If you have too many custom themes, select the names in the Theme Name pop-up menu, click Delete, click Yes to confirm, and click OK to remove it. Scroll down about one- Change It Once--Use It Forever Rather than leaving the default Adobe Presenter preload text, or customizing the text for each presentation, you can modify an Adobe Presenter program file to change the text for all your presentations. Here's how: half page to the <language id="en"> 1. Locate the Themes folder on your hard drive: · · section, and type this code on a blank line, inserting your custom text as the value: <uitext name="ADOBE_ PRESENTER" value= "Insert Your Custom Text"/> On Windows XP, in Windows Explorer, locate C:\Documents and Settings\ [user name] \Local Settings\Application Data\Adobe\Adobe Presenter\ Themes. On Windows Vista, from the desktop click Start > Run and type %LOCALAPPDATA%\Adobe\Adobe Presenter. Click OK to close the Run dialog and open the folders; double-click on the Themes folder. 4. Right-click on the language. xml file and open the file using an XML editor or Notepad. 5. Open the index. htm Web page holding the presentation, located at c:\Documents and Settings\ [user name] \ My Documents\My Adobe Presentations\ [PresentationName]. When the page opens, view your custom text as the presentation loads. 3. [. . . ] See also FLV movies; source files; SWF files Acrobat formats convertible to PDFs, 52 Acrobat. com conversion of, 210 adding to collection, 11 Author and Co-authors of, 222 comparing, 227, 331 converting to standardscompliant, 105 deleting from watched folder, 49 distilling, 44­47 editing within portfolio, 75 embedding in PDFs, 35­37 enabling comments for, 212 exporting to apply Preflight commands, 108 finding MyFiles, 217 FLV, 260­262 found in index folder, 18 Illustrator files saved as layered PDFs, 282 joboption, 44, 45, 48 linking portfolio, 76 listed in Security Envelope, 339 managing returns, 249 merging multiple to single PDF, 52­53 naming converted PDF, 24 PDFs saved in other formats, 88­90 preventing user access to, 319 previewing PDF portfolio, 67 previewing without local fonts, 96­97 printing, 98­99 PRN, 43 PS, 43 reducing size of, 85, 87 replacing filenames with Bates numbers, 135 saving copied image to, 152 saving older Acrobat files as PDF Portfolio, 40 saving PDF as image, 91­92 splitting into multiple PDFs, 129, 130 supported movie formats, 264, 265, 266 types of PDF formats, 88, 89 U3D format, 270 XML manifest, 176 Files pane (Organizer), 10 filtering comments, 199 form returns, 256 Find toolbar, 12 fixups for preflights, 106­107 Flash. See also FLV movies; SWF files adding movies to PDF files, 265­267 adding SWF file to PDF, 263­264 features in Buzzword, 223 inserting FLV movie in PDF, 260­262 integration with Acrobat, 259 player installed with Presenter, 165 using multimedia content in presentations, 170­172 using multiple movies in presentation, 164 Flash Lite, 166 Flattener Preview dialog, 94 flattening avoiding patches on layered images, 94 Photoshop layers copied to clipboard, 59 troubleshooting printing problems with, 99 Visio layers, 282 floating media windows, 262 FLV movies distributing embedded, 36 embedded vs. linked, 260 embedding in PDFs, 35­37, 260­262, 265 folders adding to portfolio, 74 index, 18 managing droplets in, 110 watched, 48­49 fonts choosing, 96­97 embedding or substituting, 47, 96­97 locking, 96 optimizing, 86 subsetting options for, 96­97 troubleshooting touchups for, 150 vertical and horizontal, 148 viewing document's, 82 footers, 137­138 form distribution collecting e-mail responses from, 249­250 handling form returns, 255­257 tracking, 253­254 via Acrobat. com, 251­252 Form Edit mode, 232­236 formatting comments, 186­187 forms, 231­257. See also fields; form distribution accessibility of, 123, 238 Acroforms vs. [. . . ]