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USING ACROBAT 9 PRO
Saving and exporting PDFs
Note: Higher resolutions, such as 2400 ppi, are suitable only for small page sizes (up to 6.826 inches or 173.380
millimeters).
Convert PDFs to Word, RTF, or other text formats
Use the Export command to convert a PDF to Microsoft Word format, or Rich Text Format (RTF), a standard for
exchanging content between text-editing applications. Images in the PDF are saved by default in JPEG format. The text
file you obtain when you export a PDF to Word or RTF is not equivalent to the source file in the authoring application.
Some coding information may be lost in the conversion.
You can also export a PDF to plain text or accessible text. Accessible text follows the reading order preference selected
in the Reading preferences, and includes comments and form fields in its output. Accessible text also includes some
formatting, such as line breaks. Any alternate text in the document tags is used in place of images and figures. Plain
text follows the structure order of text in the document and ignores all artifacts and figure elements in the conversion.
Hard hyphens are preserved, and soft hyphens are removed.
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Choose File > Export, and then choose a text format: Microsoft Word Document, Rich Text Format, or Text
(Accessible or Plain).
Click Settings, select the options you want, click OK, and click Save.
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Word and RTF options
(For a list of plain text options, see the options for HTML and XML.)
Specifies how to interpret the layout of the document. The Retain Flowing Text option preserves the
Layout Settings
flow of the text, but does not necessarily preserve the layout. This setting is useful if you export a document with a
complex layout, such as multiple columns, and you want to retain the text flow for easy editing. The Retain Page Layout
option preserves the layout of the document, but the resulting file sometimes has more text boxes.
Regenerate Tags To Optimize Layout If The Document Is Already Tagged
Acrobat uses any existing tags to generate the output layout. If the tags in a PDF do not represent the logical structure
of the document, the resulting layout is not necessarily optimal. When this option is selected, Acrobat removes the
existing tags and then adds new tags to the document before exporting it.
Preserves PDF comments.
Include Comments
Includes images in the final output. The default image format is JPEG.
Include Images
Specifies the image format. Select JPEG or PNG, and then select the color space and resolution
Output Format
options.
Specifies the color space. Choose Color or Grayscale, or let the color space be determined
Use Colorspace
automatically.
Downsamples images. If you do not select this option, images are created at the same resolution
Change Resolution
as in the PDF.
Specifies the resolution for downsampling images. Images are never upsampled.
Downsample To
You can export multiple PDFs to RTF using the Advanced > Document Processing > Batch Processing command.
Export images to another format
In addition to saving every page (all text, images, and vector objects on a page) to an image format using the File > Save
As command, you can export each image in a PDF to an image format.
Last updated 9/30/2011
When saving a PDF to Word or RTF,
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