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Creating Other Package Components
Rather than opening programs and converting files to PDF from their native applications, you can instead
create package components as PDF files within Acrobat in a number of ways. The method you use depends
both on your intended use of the files and your preferred workflow.
In this Chapter
You can create package components as PDF files from other source documents. In this chapter you learn
how to:
x Create PDF files from single or multiple documents
x Create PDF files from a scan, and capture and test the content
x Create PDF files from a Web page, either through Acrobat or Internet Explorer
x Create a PDF file from captured content, either in the form of a snapshot or from clipboard contents.
Converting a Single Document
Acrobat 6 and 7 include a Create PDF task button, which contains the options for creating a PDF file within
Acrobat. Click the task button to display its menu, shown in Figure 5.1, or choose File > Create PDF menu.
For assistance, choose How to…Create PDF from the Task button's menu to open common file creation
topics in the Search pane at the right of the program window.
To create a PDF from a single file, choose From File from the Create PDF task button's menu. Select
the file you want to convert in the Open dialog box and click Open. The file is opened in its source program
and converted to PDF. Acrobat uses a PDFMaker with its current settings in applicable programs; if the
file's native program does not have a PDFMaker, the file is printed using the Adobe PDF Converter. After
conversion, the document is opened in Acrobat, and named using the source file's name. Choose File >
Save to save the file as a PDF.
Not all files can be converted to a PDF from within Acrobat; allowed formats are listed in Table 5.1.
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