I had Acrobat Professional 8 and started having trouble with my document view (things, especially graphs, were very distorted) after I upgraded to 2010. My IT determined I needed to upgrade Acrobat to alleviate the problem, so that’s what I did. Now my document view is fine, but with Acrobat X I’m not able to utilize the packing option available in Pro 8.
I’ve been working for months on a documentation system. One component of this system is a reference category. I utilized the packaging with the cover sheet option to assign the reference material a number and also give a brief synopsis of the content. Acrobat X doesn’t have the same packaging feature, instead there’s a portfolio function (without a cover sheet). The documents I already packaged open with the cover sheet in view, but when all the documents load the view automatically switches to the first document in the package and there’s no way I see to go back to the cover. Before in the toolbar there was an icon that looked like a house and that would take you back to the cover sheet and of course it didn’t automatically switch documents.
I think my only option now is to handle these documents as attachments to the, what was previously, cover sheet. If I cannot recover the cover sheets I already have done, I’m going to have to recreate them. This is a substantial amount of work to have to redo.
Why would something so function be eliminated in an updated version? It just doesn’t make sense. Also I’ve looked at the portfolio in Pro X and for documentation purposes; it’s not a useful tool. For glitz and glam packaging, maybe… by that’s not most of the work done in business. So if anybody out there is listening… don’t take tools away, you can’t know the impact.
Help…I’m really in trouble here!
Pro X vs Pro 8 and the coversheet
2011-02-17 08:55:06
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My Product Information:
Acrobat Pro 10.0, Windows
Acrobat Pro 10.0, Windows
2011-02-17 23:56:36
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To get to the cover sheet in a Portfolio (or a file being treated as one)View > Portfolio > Cover SheetYou can't save a cover sheet directly as it's the root object in the document, but if you open the pages navigation panel and right-click the thumbnail you can "extract" it into a new file.
PDF Portfolios are no different to Packages under the hood - they're a cover sheet with attachments - the only difference is that with a Portfolio one of those attachments is a "navigator" built in Flex, that does the visual display of the cards on screen. The user interface to display Packages as they were in Acrobat 8 was removed ages ago.
2011-02-21 15:01:23
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Thanks .... this really helped me out. Extracting the cover allows me to regroup the documents in Pro X.
2011-02-21 15:01:26
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Thanks .... this really helped me out. Extracting the cover allows me to regroup the documents in Pro X.
2011-02-21 16:57:58
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"Joel's PDF Portfolio Utilities" can set a portfolio to display the cover page (or the List mode) each time it's opened…
It's freely available here : http://blogs.adobe.com/pdfdevjunkie/joels_pdf_portfolio_utilities.html
;-)
It's freely available here : http://blogs.adobe.com/pdfdevjunkie/joels_pdf_portfolio_utilities.html
;-)
2011-12-21 08:19:05
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I have been using Adobe Acrobat 8.0 Pro to assign digital signature fields and apply security. It is not clear to me how I will do this in Adobe Acrobat X. Any suggestions appreciated.
BobS
BobS
2011-12-21 08:19:12
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I have been using Adobe Acrobat 8.0 Pro to assign digital signature fields and apply security. It is not clear to me how I will do this in Adobe Acrobat X. Any suggestions appreciated.
BobS
BobS
2011-12-21 08:19:20
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I have been using Adobe Acrobat 8.0 Pro to assign digital signature fields and apply security. It is not clear to me how I will do this in Adobe Acrobat X. Any suggestions appreciated.
BobS
BobS
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Specifically, Acrobat 8 "Packages" went away when Acrobat 9 was released. "Packages" were replaced by "Portfolios". Some 2 years into Acrobat 9 we had the release of Acrobat X with an updated approach to Portfolios). Having to accommodate a step change from Acrobat 8 to Acrobat X is awkward. With that said it is evident that Adobe's focus on Portfolios was established over 2 years ago.
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I suspect that, with some greater familiarity with Acrobat X Portfolios you could use them for what you describe in an effective manner. As to the Packages' cover page, these would be present as one of a PDF's attached PDFs.
Your IT group ought to still have the licensed Acrobat 8 available. Your IT could remove Acrobat X, install Acrobat 8 & you could use it to locate the attached "cover page" PDF. With it open you ought to be able to save it out.
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Alternatively, with Acrobat X, view the attached files to see if, once located you could open and save it (the cover page) out to the local machine's HDD.
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Be well...