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Help me print attachments from an Adobe Acrobat 9 portfolio

Sheppagus — Wed, 25 Mar 2009 13:58:12 -0800

Do you know a way to print emails and attachments from a portfoilio created in Adobe Acrobat 9 Pro? I have created a portfolio in Adobe Acrobat Pro 9 from Outlook emails and am trying to get the entire portfolio to print with the attachments. Despite others telling me this is possible, I can't get the attachments to print (although the attachments show up in the portfolio view and I can open them in their native applications from the portfolio).

Has anyone done this successfully? If so, what trick am I missing?

How do you cut and paste HTML?

Bobby Bittman — Tue, 23 Dec 2008 12:55:00 -0800

How can I cut content out of a website and paste it cleanly into a word document? I've tried Googling this and am getting nothing.

I'm trying to create a word document (for eventual conversion to pdf) of all the web-based press clippings for a musician. I would ideally like these clippings to be in the format they appeared in when they were published on the web. My end goal is a .pdf of all these nicely laid-out press clippings, interviews and reviews with graphics, photos, etc. intact.

Is there a short-cut for this, some kind of print-screen equivalent for grabbing entire web pages? Or is the html just too messy to be cut and pasted that simply?

Looking for some color in a black and white world

Mael Oui — Sat, 04 Oct 2008 01:33:30 -0800

It seems that I have completely run out of black ink, but I have a new color cartridge in my HP All-in-one printer (F2120). I want to print out pdfs of crossword puzzles that I've downloaded from the internet. The pdfs only utilize black ink. I want to print them out in a color (red, green, blue.. I don't care), so that the puzzle and clues all appear in the same (non-black) color. I'm using Adobe Acrobat 6.0 Professional for Win2k. Is there any easy way to do this? Is it even possible? Have I provided enough info?

How do I make Acrobat show nonprinting characters?

fiercecupcake — Wed, 17 Oct 2007 10:17:37 -0800

Adobe Acrobat question: Is it possible to show nonprinting (invisible, hidden) characters? How? I have searched Google high and low and tried every search term on the very-unhelpful Acrobat Help feature. I want to see paragraph marks, spacing, tabs, etc. I am using Acrobat 8 Standard edition. I hate using my question on this but it is driving me CRAZY!

What the resolution for this pdf file?

hydrophonic — Thu, 09 Aug 2007 10:52:20 -0800

How do I determine the resolution for images in a pdf? Or for a pdf that is one big raster image? I work with a CAD program (Solidworks 2007) and often grab images of what I'm working on by saving them as jpg, tif or pdf files. Jpgs are saved at 72 dpi, and tifs at 92. For pdfs there's a "high quality" option and I'd like to know how high the quality is. I've got Acrobat 8.

Adobe Reader: any way to have highlighted text automatically copied into the comment?

Ø — Tue, 12 Dec 2006 22:16:46 -0800

Adobe Reader: any way to have highlighted text automatically copied into the associated comment? Adobe Acrobat has an option in the Commenting Preferences pane to "Copy selected text into Highlight, Cross-Out, and Underline comment pop-ups." Is there any way to achieve this in Reader (on comment-enabled documents)?

And if not, is there any way in Acrobat to retroactively do this to a document that was highlighted in Reader?

What Adobe Acrobat and elephants have in common.

kookoobirdz — Wed, 21 Jun 2006 12:00:50 -0800

Adobe Acrobat 7 Pro. How can I get it to discard parts of the document that I've cropped out? In Acrobat (I'm using 7 Pro), you can crop a page down to whatever sub-portion of the page you want. But the stuff that's no longer visible isn't actually gone. If someone wants to come along later and un-crop, they can easily do that with the crop tool and wham, there's the rest of your original page visible once more.

I want all that stuff gone. I want the original page size gone. I want what the viewer sees to be all there actually is, with nothing else recoverable. I thought the PDF Optimizer function might do it, or Reduce File Size, but no. Still there.

The only suggestion I've seen is to re-print the PDF as a PDF. I tried it, and it seems to have worked. But what I can't tell is whether the vector goodness of it has been preserved (graphic design novice here, trying to make stuff for people who will require scalable images). And surely there is a way within Acrobat to discard the hidden stuff without going through that each time. Some setting somewhere? Some trick?

Adobe Reader vs Preview for Mac OS 10.4?

cahlers — Tue, 15 Nov 2005 06:26:36 -0800

What, if any, are the advantages to Adobe Acrobat Reader over Preview for Mac OS 10.4?

PHP and MySQL

jpoulos — Thu, 06 Jan 2005 12:25:41 -0800

I'm developing a form Adobe Acrobat which, when submitting, calls a php script, which performs an INSERT into a MySQL database, then comes back with a "Thank you" web page. The script is called just fine and the INSERT works, but the browser hangs on the Thank You page. [more inside] After much pulling of hair and gnashing of teeth, I've discovered that changing the http headers from

<meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1"> to

<meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8">

makes everything hunky dory. But I'm not sure why, or what ramifications making the change would have. What's wrong with iso-8859-1, dammit?

Can I automate the creation of PDFs from a large number of Word documents?

ParisParamus — Fri, 17 Sep 2004 10:35:23 -0800

Acrobat Filter. In Mac OS 9.2, I regularly create a large number of PDFs from Word files using Distiller 5.0. The problem is, I do this for 30 large files every 10 days, and must manually first create .ps files, and then distill them. The process takes more than 1 hour, during which I must open Each Word file to .ps "print" it. Short of buying a new copy of Acrobat for $300 and/or an OS X computer, is there any way to automate this process?

Which freely available utilities, gizmos and doodads ALWAYS have a place on your Windows machine?

RavinDave — Thu, 02 Sep 2004 06:57:48 -0800

WinDoze: You're setting up your new machine. Which freely available utilities, gizmos and doodads ALWAYS have a place on your computer? WinAmp? WinZip? WinRAR? Acrobat Reader? ICQ (or variants)? For me, on a WinDoze system I can't live without IrfanView or DCEnhance.

Is there a script put a directory full of jpgs into one single pdf?

Grod — Sun, 25 Jul 2004 19:11:55 -0800

PDF question. I have a directory full of jpgs, each is a scanned page of a book and each is numbered sequentially (001.jpg, 002.jpg, 003.jpg ...). I want to convert it to a single document. I don't want to open the first image and then import and append each successive page. Is there a script to do this? I have both acrobat and ghostscript. Any pdf gurus here?

What is a good way to convert complicated HTML to image or PDF?

frenetic — Tue, 01 Jun 2004 06:55:46 -0800

I'm looking for a way to convert some fairly visually complicated HTML to image or PDF. I've tried HTMLDOC, pdfcreator and Adobe Acrobat Pro but they all have HTML rendering glitches that are hard to troubleshoot. I'd love to be able to use the Mozilla renderer for this. Any ideas?

Does Adobe Acrobat 5 work with Mac OS 9.x? If so, where can I buy it?

Lynsey — Thu, 05 Feb 2004 11:19:48 -0800

I need a version of Adobe Acrobat to encode pdf files that will work on Mac OS 9.x. From what I've googled so far, that seems to be Adobe Acrobat 5, but when I go to the websites listed, I can't seem to find tech specs/product reviews that confirm that it actually works in Mac OS 9.x machines. Does anyone have any familiarity with this product and can you confirm that it does actually work in Mac OS 9.x systems? Even better, do you have a source from which I can buy a new, full edition? Price is not necessarily an object....