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Standards Settings
When your document must comply with established Standards, choose an option from the Standards panel
to test the document against the standard's requirements before conversion. Figure 4.20 shows the PDF/A
archival standard's settings. Click the Help icons next to an option to display a tooltip describing default
values for the option, as shown in the figure.
Summary
In this chapter we looked at the method Acrobat uses to convert documents to PDF, using a Word
document as an example. You saw how the PDFMakers, Acrobat Distiller, and Acrobat share a group of
common conversion settings, called .joboption files. These are installed as part of the Acrobat 7 installation
process and stored on your hard drive.
You saw how a PDF document is created from Visio, and how to manipulate the layers in the file. You
learned how to print a file using the Adobe PDF printer driver, and how to convert a file using Acrobat
Distiller. In addition, you saw how to examine conversion options, and also how to choose common
settings for creating a custom .joboption file.
Figure 4.20 Choose settings to generate and test standards-compliant documents
Exercises
1. Using the method outlined in the chapter, convert a sample Word document; depending on your
available programs, convert other sample documents using various programs' PDFMakers.
2. Convert and examine an Outlook PDF file. Note the bookmark structure added in the PDF file.
3. Convert a sample file using Acrobat Distiller. Note the conversion process, and look at the log file
generated by the program.
4. Create and save a custom .joboptions file, either through Distiller (as used in the chapter), or via a
program's PDFMaker settings dialog box.