Adobe 22002484 User Guide - Page 133

USING ACROBAT 9 STANDARD 128 Saving and exporting PDFs Convert PDFs to Word, RTF, or other text formats Use the Export command to convert a PDF to Microsoft Word format, or Rich Text Format (RTF), a standard for exchanging content between text-editing applications. Images in the PDF are saved by default in JPEG format. The text file you obtain when you export a PDF to Word or RTF is not equivalent to the source file in the authoring application. Some coding information may be lost in the conversion. You can also export a PDF to plain text or accessible text. Accessible text follows the reading order preference selected in the Reading preferences, and includes comments and form fields in its output. Accessible text also includes some formatting, such as line breaks. Any alternate text in the document tags is used in place of images and figures. Plain text follows the structure order of text in the document and ignores all artifacts and figure elements in the conversion. Hard hyphens are preserved, and soft hyphens are removed. 1 Choose File > Export, and then choose a text format: Microsoft Word Document, Rich Text Format, or Text (Accessible or Plain). 2 Click Settings, select the options you want, click OK, and click Save. Word and RTF options (For a list of plain text options, see the options for HTML and XML.) Layout Settings Specifies how to interpret the layout of the document. The Retain Flowing Text option preserves the flow of the text, but does not necessarily preserve the layout. This setting is useful if you export a document with a complex layout, such as multiple columns, and you want to retain the text flow for easy editing. The Retain Page Layout option preserves the layout of the document, but the resulting file sometimes has more text boxes. Regenerate Tags To Optimize Layout If The Document Is Already Tagged When saving a PDF to Word or RTF, Acrobat uses any existing tags to generate the output layout. If the tags in a PDF do not represent the logical structure of the document, the resulting layout is not necessarily optimal. When this option is selected, Acrobat removes the existing tags and then adds new tags to the document before exporting it. Include Comments Preserves PDF comments. Include Images Includes images in the final output. The default image format is JPEG. Output Format Specifies the image format. Select JPEG or PNG, and then select the color space and resolution options. Use Colorspace Specifies the color space. Choose Color or Grayscale, or let the color space be determined automatically. Change Resolution Downsamples images. If you do not select this option, images are created at the same resolution as in the PDF. Downsample To Specifies the resolution for downsampling images. Images are never upsampled. Export images to another format In addition to saving every page (all text, images, and vector objects on a page) to an image format using the File > Save As command, you can export each image in a PDF to an image format. Note: You can export raster images, but not vector objects. 1 Choose Advanced > Document Processing > Export All Images. 2 In the Export All Images As dialog box, choose a file format for the images. By default, exported image files use the source filename. Last updated 9/30/2011