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drraa9
Registered: Oct 3 2010
Posts: 7

Hi- I am looking for, and have not found a way to get formatting in Acrobat. I really need things like bullets and numbering, stuff that Adobe Buzzword has. I often create and edit documents while commuting to/from work and do not have internet access to use Buzzword. Is there a way to use Buzzword off-line witin Acrobat?
 
Thanks.

My Product Information:
Acrobat Pro 9.3, Windows
daka630
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Registered: Mar 1 2007
Posts: 1420
Acrobat.com's Buzzword and Adobe Acrobat are, well... significantly different products.
While Acrobat supports minor touchups to PDFs it does not work directly on the files of desktop/online content editors.

The Help associated with Acrobat.com discusses export and import of support file formats and associated limitations.
Online Help
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There may be discussions of this at the acrobat.com forums.
Acrobat.com Forum
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gkaiseril
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Registered: Feb 23 2006
Posts: 4308
You could use OpenOffice.org and their PDF editor plugin.

George Kaiser

drraa9
Registered: Oct 3 2010
Posts: 7
daka630 wrote:
Acrobat.com's Buzzword and Adobe Acrobat are, well... significantly different products.
While Acrobat supports minor touchups to PDFs it does not work directly on the files of desktop/online content editors.

The Help associated with Acrobat.com discusses export and import of support file formats and associated limitations.
Online Help
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There may be discussions of this at the acrobat.com forums.
Acrobat.com Forum
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Thanks for your response. I guess that means Acrobat does not offer the same formatting functions as a document editor like MS Word? For some reason I thought it did.

Thanks again.
drraa9
Registered: Oct 3 2010
Posts: 7
gkaiseril wrote:
You could use OpenOffice.org and their PDF editor plugin.
I already have Word, but I think Adobe products are some much nicer (Buzzword is perfect for what I need - I was hoping there would be a desktop version). I'll be able to deal with what I have.

Thanks.
daka630
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Registered: Mar 1 2007
Posts: 1420
My goodness no; Acrobat is not a word processer (MS Word), a page layout application (InDesign) or a liviing, technical document layout and content editor (FrameMaker).
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Acrobat 'does' PDF - and does PDF rather well.
Working with Acrobat, features such as Tagged PDF or PDF with rich media added step up the level of content/ideas/vision that can be exchanged and viewed electronically — something "authoring files" do not/cannot support.
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Be well...