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Cannot find some features in Acrobat X - Pro

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2011-01-14 20:37:13
GordonS
Registered: Jan 14 2011
Posts: 4
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I just -- finally -- installed X-Pro to replace version 7, which I had been happily using for years, but cannot find several features that were vital to the ways I used 7: the cropping box and the "Document" dropdown on taskbar (which, in 7, contains the crop menu). It almost seems as it something was omitted when I installed the program. I can't find anything in "Help" that deals with these problems.
 
I'd be grateful for any assistance.

Gordon Schochet

My Product Information:
Acrobat Pro 10.0, Windows
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2011-01-15 03:51:10
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UVSAR
Expert
Registered: Oct 29 2008
Posts: 1357
Accepted Answer
The tools from the Acrobat menus are now found on the Tools Pane (click the word "Tools" on the right of the toolbar).

Actions relating to pages, such as cropping, are on the Pages panel. Actions relating to a bit of the content on a particular page (such as text edits) are under the Content panel.


To crop a page or pages to a specific dimension, draw a rectangle on the page using the Crop tool (anything will do) and double-click it. That opens the Crop dialog, where you can type in values for the four margins and choose what page ranges to alter.
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2011-01-15 08:59:20
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GordonS
Registered: Jan 14 2011
Posts: 4
That helps a great deal, and I thank you very much, but it is incredibly cumbersome compared to earlier versions. And I did find that CTRL-SHIFT-T opens the cropping dialogue box as it did in 7 without the need to draw a crop (and I assume that other keyboard shortcuts will work as well: I'll discover them -- or not -- along the way; CTRL-SHIFT-S does open "Save As"). However, this raises two more questions: (1) do I conclude, despite the on-line help menu, that "Document" is no long a taskbar category? and (2) are the menu and taskbar changes I make permanent?

With my repeated gratitude.

Gordon Schochet

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2011-10-14 14:11:25
#3
Koda100
Registered: Oct 14 2011
Posts: 1
I find Gordon's answer to himself more useful than the UVSAR one. Why is it that the dialog boxes are so carefully hidden? Where does one find out that, as mentioned above, you can use command-shift-T to get a dialog box where you can enter the exact amount of the crop you need (so you are not eyeballing it)? The new tools don't allow any precision whatsoever. If I have a page that is only .01 too wide, I can't crop it with the crop too because it either doesn't crop anything at all or it crops off almost 1/8". It looks to me like another case of dumbing down the software -- it's supposed to be Acrobat "Pro" but it's made for people who don't care hat their stuff looks like. (rant off.)
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