How can I view AND create PDFs without Acrobat? [more inside]
posted on Aug 28, 2008 - 23 answers

How can I convert a Word document to a pdf while keeping the margins the same width? We are working on a 5 MB Word document, created with Word 2003 on a PC running Windows XP. The margins must be 1 inch wide. When we convert it to pdf, the right hand margin becomes 1.25 inches wide, and random phrases become boldface. We've tried Acrobat 8 and a freeware converter (dopdf).
posted on Aug 28, 2008 - 15 answers

Why are there 20 Mb of embedded fonts in my PDF and how can I make them go away? [more inside]
posted on Aug 28, 2008 - 5 answers

Cloning Vista SP1 OEM? Questions inside... [more inside]
posted on Aug 25, 2008 - 7 answers

I am using adobe acrobat pro 8. I have a basic text field in a simple form. How in the hell do I get a subscript character in there (I want put in the text "H2M DEVELOPMENT CO." with the "2" as subscript)? Is this something boneheadedly simple I am missing? I can do it in two seconds in any word processor...your help will be mos appreciated - thanks in advance!!!
posted on Jul 3, 2008 - 7 answers

Adobe Acrobat Professional (8.0): Is there any way to distribute stamps from one machine to another? How about simply sorting them? [more inside]
posted on Jun 30, 2008 - 2 answers

Why do links in pdf documents open in Explorer instead of Firefox? [more inside]
posted on Jun 25, 2008 - 8 answers

What's with Adobe Acrobat Professional - and not being able to put my custom page / section numbers into the header / footer? Did I miss a meeting? Why has no one else posed this question to the Googles? Is there a 3rd party plug-in that does this? Surely somebody knows something?! [more inside]
posted on May 21, 2008 - 6 answers

I tried to update my Adobe Acrobat 7.0 and I broke something. Help me make it work again. [more inside]
posted on May 17, 2008 - 4 answers

Building a PDF form. Radio buttons getting skipped when tabbing through fields. [more inside]
posted on Feb 6, 2008 - 4 answers

I can use document properties to make a pdf file open at 100% on my mac, but its all blown up and wonky in reader on PCs. Anyone know how to make 72dpi pdf files open with a 1-1 px ratio on a PC?
posted on Jan 17, 2008 - 1 answers

How can I open multiple pages at once in Acrobat, so I can see them side-by-side? [more inside]
posted on Jan 14, 2008 - 3 answers

Is there an alternative (cheap-ish) way to have multiple people sign a document? I don't think my boss will go for multiple licenses of Acrobat. Any good ideas? [more inside]
posted on Dec 5, 2007 - 10 answers

PDF editing - batch processing on a large number of pages? [more inside]
posted on Oct 24, 2007 - 7 answers

Adobe Acrobat question: Is it possible to show nonprinting (invisible, hidden) characters? How? [more inside]
posted on Oct 17, 2007 - 3 answers

How to strip Kanji characters from .pdf? [more inside]
posted on Jul 5, 2007 - 5 answers

I'm trying to get a section of the US Code of Federal Regulations into one PDF file, but joining the different files in Acrobat gives me a ton of duplicate pages. Is there an easy way to remove duplicate pages? A better formatted version of the CFR? I have access to both Mac and PC.
posted on May 16, 2007 - 7 answers

How do I highlight graphics in Adobe Acrobat? [more inside]
posted on May 3, 2007 - 5 answers

How do I take 5 pdf files and combine them into one file without Acrobat? [more inside]
posted on Apr 29, 2007 - 7 answers

Is it possible to create a pdf file that can only be opened once? [more inside]
posted on Apr 25, 2007 - 3 answers

Could not find the Xobject named I0 Adobe Acrobat Error [more inside]
posted on Feb 26, 2007 - 7 answers

I installed Acrobat Reader 8. OS X no longer prints to PDF. How do I fix that? [more inside]
posted on Jan 18, 2007 - 5 answers

Acrobat Pro Typewriter Tool question - it's greyed out! [more inside]
posted on Nov 17, 2006 - 6 answers

Open a .pdf to a page? [more inside]
posted on Nov 6, 2006 - 6 answers

Combining pages in Acrobat Reader. [more inside]
posted on Nov 3, 2006 - 5 answers

Is there a way, possibly via scripting, to export the top-level Layers of an Adobe Illustrator CS2 document as a multi-PAGE PDF? [more inside]
posted on Oct 26, 2006 - 3 answers

Graphically editing multi-page PDFs quickly (erasing things, mostly) [more inside]
posted on Oct 18, 2006 - 8 answers

I fill out a lot of the same postal form, just with small amounts of different information in it. This form needs to be printed out a couple dozen times a day. Is it possible to dreates a PDF in Acrobat or Indesign that has a user-fillable text box that will show up when printed? I'm currently just editing and printing a Word doc, which is less than ideal.
posted on Oct 18, 2006 - 9 answers

AcrobatFilter: I'm trying to create a PDF out of a word document but when Acrobat runs the job no file is created and I receive no error messages. What is the deal? [more inside]
posted on Oct 5, 2006 - 4 answers

InDesign, Acrobat and spot colors to PDF?! [more inside]
posted on Sep 14, 2006 - 7 answers

I have 800 PDFs in a folder. I'd like for them to all have 1) Show Page Only, Page layout to Default, and Magnification to Default 2) Have all the extra stuff removed (bookmarks, metadata, embedded thumbnails) Is there any way to do this as a batch?
posted on Sep 14, 2006 - 1 answers

How do I embed a Chinese font subset into an Adobe Acrobat .pdf file? [more inside]
posted on Aug 22, 2006 - 4 answers

I've just finished making a few hundreds annotations to forty or so PSD files, and am quite ready to be done with them. However, being annotations, they all have my name at the top! Is there any way to batch-change this without going in and re-editing every one by hand? Save me from wasting countless non-billable hours fixing this manually! [more inside]
posted on Aug 14, 2006 - 8 answers

When converting HTML pages to Acrobat files using Adobe Acrobat Standard, it automatically puts the URL of the page in a footer on each page of the created .pdf. How do I stop it from doing this?
posted on Aug 2, 2006 - 6 answers

I swear I once saw a PDF with tabbed navigation along the bottom edge of the pages, kind of like what you'd see on an Excel workbook. How do I set up that effect? [more inside]
posted on Jul 31, 2006 - 1 answers

Why are my PDF files so huge? [more inside]
posted on Jul 20, 2006 - 7 answers

Can I convert a multi-layer .psd to a multi-layer .pdf? [more inside]
posted on Jul 5, 2006 - 6 answers

I need to capture data from an HTML form into a database, then use that data to populate a template. The template, however, is of a certificate of accomplishment, and must be in the form of a printable PDF. What's a good software/middleware/whateverware package to automatically take the data and inject it into a PDF like this? More inside. [more inside]
posted on Jun 23, 2006 - 9 answers

Recent Windows versions of Adobe apps, specifically programs in the CS2 Suite and Acrobat Pro 7.0, all run some kind of auxiliary program called "Cleanup" not long after they start up. In my experience, "Cleanup" always freezes the Adobe app in question while it does whatever it's doing. So what is this program? Is it necessary? And if not, how can I stop it from running?
posted on Jun 21, 2006 - 14 answers

Adobe Acrobat 7 Pro. How can I get it to discard parts of the document that I've cropped out? [more inside]
posted on Jun 21, 2006 - 5 answers

Adobe Acrobat 7.0 Professional: I've got a document with several hundred links in it. Right now, they're all invisible; I'd like to change them all to dotted rectangles of a particular color. Is there any way to change the appearance of every link in the document simultaneously? "Make this the default appearance" doesn't do it; it only affects the links you make in the future. Help?
posted on May 12, 2006 - 1 answers

How can I extract every 14th page from a PDF? [more inside]
posted on Mar 28, 2006 - 5 answers

what can you tell me about quark xpress and cross-platform (specifically, windows and mac) problems, "features," tips, etc? [more inside]
posted on Mar 3, 2006 - 6 answers

Acrobat Reader 5.0 and Acrobat Pro 7.0: can they both work at once? I just installed Acrobat Pro 7.0 on Windows XP, and now it's the default for viewing PDFs. Not only that, but even when I try to open AcroRd32.exe in the Acrobat 5.0 folder, it instead opens up Acrobat.exe from the 7.0 install. I need 7.0 for professional use, but 5.0 is so much faster for all of my other PDF-viewing needs. Is there any way that I can keep using 5.0 while 7.0 is installed? [more inside]
posted on Mar 1, 2006 - 8 answers

Firefox and (surprise!) Acrobat Reader problems. Upgraded Acrobat Reader via its internal upgrade routine (while in Firefox). The upgrade crashed halfway through. Now neither Firefox nor Adobe Download Manager seem to have DNS capability. Also, neither program can be removed from memory—using End Process in the Windows Task Manager does nothing. What gives?
posted on Dec 14, 2005 - 9 answers

What is the best way to convert a web page into a PDF file? ...w/o using Acrobat. [more inside]
posted on Nov 17, 2005 - 10 answers

Every time I open Adobe Acrobat, it creates a folder in My Documents called "My eBooks." How can I stop this? I hate repeatedly deleting this folder, and I'd rather not just make it "hidden." [more inside]
posted on Sep 28, 2005 - 6 answers

I have a PDF file that doesn't want to print. The print commands are grayed out in Acrobat Reader. The lock symbol appears indicating that the document is encrypted to prevent modification of "certain aspects". However, I have other documents which appear to have similar encryption that print fine. Is the encryption causing this problem? If not, then what is? How can I work round the problem?
posted on Mar 16, 2005 - 10 answers

Acrobat Distiller/PDF Panic (Mac Classic 9.2) I can take Word files, and create .PS files, and then distill them into PDFs, but when I try to do it all in one step, ERROR 5751. Since the Web is of no help, is there someone here who can help?
posted on Feb 10, 2005 - 21 answers

Acrobat woes. I have Acrobat 6 Pro, and it takes forever to load. How can I get Acrobat Reader 7 to open PDF in my browser, and save 6 for when I want to edit files? [more inside]
posted on Jan 17, 2005 - 8 answers