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USING ACROBAT 9 STANDARD
Creating PDFs
Create PDF/A Compliant PDF File
of electronic documents. (In the Microsoft Publisher application alone, PDFMaker does not support the PDF/A
standard.)
Note: When Conversion Settings are opened from within Word, Excel, or PowerPoint, this option specifies PDF/A 1-
a:2005. When opened from within Access, it specifies PDF/A 1-b:2005.
Security tab of the Conversion Settings
The settings available for PDFMaker depend on the application in which you're using PDFMaker.
Require A Password To Open The Document
where you enter a password that users must use to open the document.
Restrict Editing And Printing Of The Document
Change Permissions Password
or editing.
Specifies whether users who use the Permissions Password can print the document and at what
Printing Allowed
resolution.
Specifies what kind of changes users who use the Permissions Password can make.
Changes Allowed
Enable Copying Of Text, Images, And Other Contents
Enable Text Access For Screen Reader Devices For The Visually Impaired
read text. (Selected by default.)
Specifies whether the search engine can read the document metadata. Available only when
Enable Plaintext Metadata
the PDF-compatibility is set to Acrobat 6.0 (PDF 1.5) or later.
Convert Microsoft Word, PowerPoint, and Excel files to PDF
When creating a PDF from Microsoft Word, PowerPoint, or Excel, you can set conversion options for the current file.
You can also select a range of content in the file to convert. The conversion options that you can set in the following
steps are some of the most commonly used settings from the Acrobat PDFMaker dialog box. Any changes you make
to the conversion options apply to the current conversion only.
For tips on converting Word documents to PDFs, see Troubleshooting PDF-creation issues in Microsoft Word at
www.acrobatusers.com/tutorials/troubleshooting-pdf-creation-issues-microsoft-word.
More Help topics
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"Application-specific PDFMaker
Convert Excel files to PDF
Open a file in Excel.
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Optionally, select the cells to convert.
Do one of the following:
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• (Office 2003 or earlier) From the Adobe PDF menu, select one of the Convert To Adobe PDF options.
• (Office 2007) From the Acrobat ribbon, select one of the Create options.
In the Acrobat PDFMaker dialog box, select a Conversion Range, then click Convert To PDF.
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Creates the PDF so that it conforms to this ISO standard for long-term preservation
When selected, makes the Document Open Password option available,
When selected, makes the other Permissions options available.
Specifies a password you set that users must use in order to do any allowable printing
Prevents or allows users from copying from the PDF.
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