Adobe Acrobat 9 PRO Extended - Manual (Page 68)

62 USING ACROBAT 9 PRO EXTENDED
Creating PDFs
Last updated 9/30/2011
• In the toolbar, click the Create button and choose PDF From File.
2 In the Open dialog box, select the file. You can browse all file types or select a specific type from the Files Of Type menu.
3 Optionally, click Settings to change the conversion options. The options available vary depending on the file type.
Note: The Settings button is unavailable if you choose All Files as the file type or if no conversion settings are available
for the selected file type.
4 Click Open to convert the file to a PDF.
Depending on the type of file being converted, the authoring application opens automatically or a progress dialog box
appears. If the file is in an unsupported format, a message appears, telling you that the file cannot be converted to PDF.
5 When the new PDF opens, choose File > Save or File > Save As; then select a name and location for the PDF.
When naming a PDF that’s intended for electronic distribution, limit the filename to eight characters (with no spaces)
and include the .pdf extension. This action ensures that email programs or network servers don’t truncate the filename
and that the PDF opens as expected.
More Help topics
“ View PDFMaker conversion settings ” on page 76
“ PDF Portfolios and combined PDFs ” on page 115
Drag and drop to create PDFs
This method is best reserved for small, simple files, such as small image files and plain text files, when the balance
between file size and output quality is not important. You can use this technique with many other types of files, but
you won’t have the opportunity to adjust any conversion settings during the process.
1 Select the icons of one or more files.
2 Drag the file icons onto the Acrobat application icon. Or (Windows only) drag the files into the open Acrobat
window.
If a message appears saying that the file could not be opened in Acrobat, then that file type cannot be converted to PDF
by the drag-and-drop method. Use one of the other conversion methods for that file.
Note: You can also convert PostScript and EPS files to PDF by dragging them onto the Acrobat Distiller window or the
Distiller application icon.
3 Save the PDF.
(Windows only) You can also right-click a file in Windows Explorer and choose Create PDF.
Convert clipboard content to PDF (Windows)
You can create PDFs from text and images that you copy from any application.
1 Capture content in the Clipboard, either by using the Copy command in any application, or by pressing the
PrintScreen key.
2 In Acrobat, choose File > Create PDF > From Clipboard.
Note: The From Clipboard command appears only when content is copied to the Clipboard. If the Clipboard is empty,
the command does not appear.