In part one of Geoff Blake’s tutorial on Acrobat bookmarks, you’ll be introduced to the idea of bookmarks, what they can do, and give you a few ideas as to where you can use ‘em. Then, you’ll see how to create basic bookmarks, reorder them, nest them, and a few shortcuts will be tossed in for good measure. Finally, after you’ve gone to all the work of creating bookmarks, you’ll want to ensure that users of your PDFs will know they’re there, so you’ll see an awesome trick to do just that! So check it out!

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Alrighty, welcome to the third and final part of our look at 25 cool Acrobat features. Hopefully you enjoyed the first two parts. This time around, you’ll find out about adjusting page numbering, using Acrobat’s commenting tools, security, and if ya make it all the way to the end, ya might find yourself a wee Acrobat bonus! So put down the phone and check it out!

Secret #17: Mark It Up With Watermarks!

Did ya know you could stamp good ‘ol fashioned watermarks right across the pages in your PDFs? Nothing strikes fear into the hearts of co-workers like FOR INTERNAL USE ONLY, DO NOT COPY, or my personal favorite, (more…)

Welcome to Part 2 of our look at 25 cool Acrobat features. I hope you enjoyed the first part, and I’m sure you’re gonna love this installment, too. Here you’ll find out about some cool navigation tricks, how to manage mulitple PDF’s, and how to use audio and video in Acrobat. And for all you traditional print designers, I’m gonna finish off with two must-know Acrobat commands that’ll make your pre-press life a breeze. So let’s get to it!

Secret #9: Articles: Navigatin’ Complex Documents With Ease!

Articles—you know in newspapers it’ll say “story continued on A15,” or something like that, right? Then you have to flip until you get to the right page. Well, articles in Acrobat’ll let you simply click to jump to continue reading—it’s yet another way to nagivate through a PDF, and (more…)

Ya know, Acrobat—Acrobat Professional, that is—just so misunderstood…it offers so much stuff, so many commands…but most people only use it just to open, and maybe print PDFs. Now I don’t wanna come off as some kinda poster-boy advocate for Acrobat or anything, but it’s got some great stuff to offer. In fact, it’s the lack of Acrobat know-how that compelled me to put together this list of 25 killer secrets. And while they’re not necessarily secret—they’re all right there in Acrobat just waitin’ to be used—they can be thought as secrets cuz nobody seems to know about ‘em. There’s so much great stuff in fact, that as I was putting this together, I quickly realized that I was gonna have to break it into three parts. So, you’ll get the first 8 secrets here, followed up by the next 8 in Part 2, and 9 more in Part 3. That’s a lotta good stuff, so fire up Acrobat and get readin’! (more…)