Create a PDF Document

The flexible tools in Acrobat give you several options for creating and publishing documents for electronic distribution in PDF format. You create PDF files from within Acrobat by importing documents authored in other applications, by saving documents created in authoring applications such as Adobe Photoshop, or by using the Acrobat PDFMaker to convert a Microsoft Office document. Several third-party plug-ins are available for working with PDF files in previous versions of Acrobat, a trend that is bound to continue with Acrobat X. Many scanning utilities, such as ScanSoft’s OmniPage Pro 17, feature PDF output as an option. Third-party Acrobat plug-ins also have been tailor-made to suit specific industries.

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