Adobe Acrobat and PDF for Architecture, Engineering, and Construction

Chapter 3: Overview of Adobe Acrobat 7

Overview

Remember back in Fluids when the professor spent half a class deriving an equation? Remember how you kept saying to yourself "Just give me the equation, tell me when it works, and any problems I might run into."?

We are going to teach Acrobat the way you wanted Fluids taught. Acrobat is used by many different professionals for many different purposes. We are only going to teach you about one-half of Acrobat and when to use that one-half.

Acrobat allows you to personalize the program's layout according to your working style.

In this Chapter

In this chapter take a quick tour of the program and look at some of its features and tools, including:

  • A list of program highlights in the latest version of Acrobat 7 Professional

  • Comparison of different Acrobat 7 program versions

  • How the program interface is displayed

  • Program window components

  • Accessing Help

  • How to open, save, and close files

Program Highlights

Some of the highlights of the latest version of Acrobat Professional for Windows include:

  • Create PDF documents from additional Microsoft Office programs in Windows, including Outlook, Project and Microsoft Access.

  • Create PDF documents from engineering programs, including AutoCAD and Microsoft Visio.

  • Mark up drawings using Measuring and Drawing Markups tools.

  • Embed object-level data in Visio drawings that are converted to PDF.

  • Create interactive forms with Adobe Designer 7 , an integrated program in Acrobat 7 Professional.

  • Attach external files to a PDF document; the attachments can be extracted and saved as separate files in their native...

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