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Re: Adobe Acrobat Tutorials



If your lessons and papers are in the form of computer files (Word
documents, etc.) then there isn't much to using Acrobat. When you
install Acrobat 5.0 you will discover that all of your Microsoft apps
acquire buttons that allow you to convert the file you are viewing into
a pdf file. If you aren't using MS apps, then another feature of Acrobat
is a new "printer" that you can install like any other. This virtual
printer takes any output you send to it and saves it in a pdf file.

I post scanned images of my handwritten problem solutions for one of my
classes. To make a nice package of solutions involving multiple pages, I
make them into a PowerPoint slide show and then export it as a pdf file.
The Acrobat software then allows students to nicely page through the
solution.

The one thing that caused me some trouble was the issue of whether or
not to save fonts with the Acrobat files. (Obviously not an issue with
the scanned solutions, but it was an issue when I used MathType and MS
Word to typeset my math.) Not saving fonts makes the files significantly
smaller. But if you use any mathematical symbols you should save all
fonts, otherwise you are rolling the dice as to whether it will be
viewable on other computers, no matter how good it looks on yours.
Whether or not fonts are saved is an option buried in a menu somewhere.
I believe the default is to save all fonts, so you likely don't need to
worry about it until you get deep into the manual.

Tim Sullivan
sullivan@kenyon.edu

Dwight K. Souder wrote:

Greetings everyone. Our school recently purchased several site licenses for
the Adobe Acrobat 5.0. I would be interested in putting some of my lessons
and papers available on the web to be viewed. I'm trying to teach myself how
to use it, but I was wondering if anyone could direct me to some
nice/easy-to-follow tutorial web-sites on how to do so?

Thanks,
Dwight Souder
Ashland, OH