Adobe 09972554AD01A12 Quick Start Guide - Page 1

Acrobat Pro X Quick Start Guide Adobe Acrobat Pro X is software that allows you to create and edit PDF documents. PDF stands for Portable Document Format, which is a global standard for sharing documents on nearly any computer. 1) Opening Acrobat Pro X and navigating around a PDF 2) Rearranging, inserting, and deleting pages 3) Changing and inserting text 4) Changing and inserting images 5) Saving your document 1) Opening Acrobat Pro X and navigating around a PDF To open a PDF for viewing or editing in Acrobat Pro X, launch Pro X and click on the Open button in the welcome box that appears. You will also have the option of creating a PDF. PDFs are not designed to be created from scratch, but rather from an existing document. Generally, you will create a document in a program like MS Word or Adobe InDesign and publish it as a PDF within the original program. You will then be able to view and make simple edits to the PDF within Acrobat Pro X. Once your PDF is open, you can use the navigation tools at the top left to move around your document. Type a page number to jump to that page. Click here to open the Page Thumbnails panel, which will give you small previews of every page in the document. You can click on a thumbnail to jump to that page. Selection tool - click Panning tool - allows it to highlight text you to click and drag to and graphics. move around a page. Fit to one full page, which zooms out enough to fit one page, top to bottom, on the screen in its entirety. Zoom - click to zoom in or out. Window width, which zooms in until the width of the page is the width of the entire screen. 2) Rearranging, inserting, extracting, and deleting pages To rearrange pages in a PDF, open the Page Thumbnails panel on the left edge of the screen. You can click and drag the thumbnail of a page to move it to another location in the document. 19