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Adobe Acrobat Help Using Help | Contents | Index Creating Adobe PDF Files Back 32 Creating Adobe PDF Files Acrobat offers you a variety of methods for converting electronic files from virtually any application to the Portable Document Format (PDF). It also gives you powerful tools for managing fonts, images, and color in your Adobe PDF files. Using Acrobat Distiller Acrobat uses Acrobat Distiller-a simulated printer-to create Adobe PDF files. All the components necessary to create this printer are installed and configured automatically when you perform a typical installation of Acrobat so that you are ready to create Adobe PDF files right away. (If you did not use the default installation and did not include the necessary drivers in a custom installation, you can install the most recent printer drivers from the Adobe Web site at www.adobe.com.) For many Acrobat users, Acrobat Distiller operates very much "behind the scenes."These users need only be aware that Distiller does have powerful sets of job options that can be customized should the quality or size of their Adobe PDF files ever need to be changed. Other users, because of their heavy use of graphics, fonts, and color, for example, prefer to customize the Distiller settings to create the best possible Adobe PDF file for their purpose. The default Distiller job option is eBook, which provides optimization suitable for most general purposes. Other available predefined job options settings include Press, Screen, and Print optimization. For more information on setting and customizing Distiller job options, see "Setting job options" on page 46. Converting Microsoft Office application files (Windows) The default Acrobat installation in Windows includes a macro-Adobe PDFMaker 5.0- that allows you to create Adobe PDF files quickly and easily from within Microsoft Office applications. PDFMaker works with Microsoft Word 97, Word 2000, Excel 97, Excel 2000, PowerPoint 97, and PowerPoint 2000 and is installed automatically if you have the Microsoft Office application on your system. By default Adobe PDF files created with PDFMaker generate tagged PDF and preserve hyperlinks, styles, and bookmarks present in the source document. To convert a Microsoft Office application document to PDF, choose Acrobat > Convert to Adobe PDF from your Microsoft Office application menu bar. For further information, choose Acrobat > Change Conversion Settings and click Help in the PDFMaker dialog box. Using an authoring application's Print command (Windows) In a Windows authoring application such as Adobe FrameMaker®, use the File > Print command with the Acrobat Distiller printer to "print" the current document as Adobe PDF. To create an Adobe PDF file using the Print command (Windows): 1 Open the document that you want to convert to Adobe PDF in its authoring application. Using Help | Contents | Index Back 32