Adobe Acrobat 8 3D - Manual (Page 63)

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Chapter 3: Creating PDFs
Adobe PDF is the solution of choice for capturing robust information from any application on any computer system.
You can create PDFs from blank pages, document files, scanned paper documents, and clipboard images.
Quickstart
Following are quick steps for some common PDF creation tasks.
Create from a file
To create a PDF from within Acrobat, the application that created the original file must be installed on the system in
most cases.
1 Click the Create PDF button and choose From File.
2 Select the file you want to convert, and click Open.
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 a PDF.
See also
“Convert a file to PDF” on page 62
Create from a paper document
You can create a PDF directly from a paper document using Acrobat and your scanner.
1 Click the Create PDF button and choose From Scanner.
2 Select the input, output, and document options in the Acrobat Scan dialog box, and then click Scan.
3 If creating a new PDF, specify a filename and location, and click Save.
4 Select Scan More Pages or Scanning Complete.
See also
“Scan a paper document to PDF” on page 64
Create from a web page
You can download and convert web pages from the top level, or any number of subordinate levels, of a URL.
1 Click the Create PDF button and choose From Web Page.
2 Type the URL into the text box. (Click Browse to convert a web page you have already downloaded.)
3 Specify the number of levels to download and where to download files from, and then click Create.