Tips from the Acrobat Dirty Tricksters

by Kurt Foss, Editor, AcrobatUsers.com

The Adobe Systems; duo of Rick Borstein and Tim Huff teamed up to host a catchy and useful eSeminar on July 26 dubbed "Rick and Tim's Thirty Dirty Tricks for Acrobat 8," during which they demonstrated and explained a collection of handy tips dealing with various tools and features.

Borstein, a Business Development Manager specializing in the Acrobat-Legal market and author of the "Acrobat for Legal Professionals" blog, and Huff, a Business Development Manager specializing in the AEC market and author of the "I didn't know Acrobat could do that!" blog and the "Acrobat for AEC" blog, put together handout materials for registered attendees to reference during the free online educational event.

They have now posted a PDF containing all 30 tips – [PDF: 1.4 MB]   plus an additional bonus — and will soon be posting a link to a recorded version of the eSeminar.

The illustrated tips by topic:

Preferences

1. Copy Encircled Text into Sticky Notes
2. Increase the Number of Recently Opened Documents
3. Get Fast Access to Tools with Single Key Accelerators
4. More Efficient TIFF to PDF Conversion

PDF Creation

5. Better PowerPoint Conversion
6. Create PDF from Blank Page
7. Showing and Creating a Presentation (complete with Speaker Notes)
8. 2D DWG to PDF
9. 3D DWG to PDF
10. Choose Sheets from Excel/Fit to Page

Search

11. Search PDF's across a directory
12. Index a directory for faster searches
13. Embed a search index in a document (Acrobat Pro only)
14. Embed a search index in a package

Batch Files

15. Batch Logging
16. Batch, Print Only Watermarks
17. Batch DWG to PDF (Windows-only and Acrobat 8 Professional or above)

Annotations and Comments

18. Changing text in a textbox (a better Typewriter tool)
19. Snapshot Tool for Stamps
20. Creating Custom Dynamic Stamps
21. Using the Pencil tool as a highlighter

Working with PDFs

22. Compare Documents (text)
23. Reducing File Size with the PDF Optimizer
24. Place an image in a PDF
25. Cleaning up Scanned Documents with Redaction Tools
26. Compare Documents (drawing)
27. Touchup Object

Web

28. Adding a Print Button to a PDF
29. Web Capture a selection
30. Add pages to web captured file

BONUS TIP 31: Converting an RSS Feed to PDF

Excellent stuff!