Chapter 42. WORKING IN A PDF IN ACROBAT

IN THIS CHAPTER

Working with Fonts 920

Editing Text 921

Compressing Images 922

Rearranging Pages 923

Adding Headers and Footers 924

Adding Watermarks and Backgrounds 925

Creating Bookmarks 926

Working with Destinations 927

Comments 929

Using Markup Tools 932

Initiating Reviews and Comments in Adobe Reader 936

Working with the Comments Tab 937

Extracting Data from Comments 937

Using the Tracker 938

Understanding Security and Digital IDs 939

The main reason Adobe created the PDF format was to offer a file format for documents that could be viewed across different platforms (Mac, PC, Unix) without users having to worry about fonts or format compatibility. Acrobat's mandate was to make the creation and display of PDF files not only possible, but to accomplish it in an easy and hassle-free way. Acrobat has grown since its introduction and many features have been added to it (and to the PDF format). The mandate of making the creation of PDF files easy remains. Let's see what you can do with your PDFs.