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6. Click OK. Acrobat generates the combination file, and assigns the name Binder1 by
default. Change the name to Spec Book , and save the file.
Task 2: Adding form content

1. Click the Bookmarks tab to show the Bookmarks pane; you see each document has a
corresponding bookmark.
2. Click the corps-tva permit application blank.PDF bookmark to display the page.
3.

The application is an active form. Click the fields and add content to the form.

4. Save the file.

Task 3: Creating PDF files from scans

1. In the ch05_project folder, locate and open the Bid Sheet to Scan.PDF file. Print it to
paper and close the file.
2. In Acrobat, open the Spec Book.PDF file.
3. Place the printed copy of the Bid Sheet to Scan.PDF in your flatbed scanner upside
down and skewed (as much as 15 degrees.)
4. Cick the Create PDF task button to open its menu and choose From Scanner to open the
dialog box.
5. In the Create PDF from Scanner dialog box choose the Append to Document
destination, and make sure Recognize Test using OCR is checked.

6. Click Settings; in the Recognize Text Settings dialog box choose Searchable Image from

the PDF Output Style drop-down list. Click OK.

7. Click Scan to start the scanning process. In your scanner's dialog box, choose Black and

White and 300dpi options.

8. When the page's scan is complete, choose Finished. Acrobat makes the text searchable,

rotates the page to the correct view and corrects the skew automatically.

9. Click the Pages tab to display the Pages pane. You see the page is appended to the end

of the document.

Task 4: Creating PDF files from web pages

1. Open the Spec Book.PDF file in Acrobat.
2. Click the Create PDF task button to open its menu and choose From Web Page.
3. In the URL field, type http://www.donnabaker.ca/ and leave the default 1 layer setting in
the dialog box.
4. Click Create. Acrobat converts the HTML to a separate PDF named using the Web
pages' names and maintains all links.
Task 5: Adding the Web pages

1. With both the Spec Book.pdf and converted Web page PDF files open in Acrobat,
choose Window > Tile> Vertically to display both files.
2. Click the Pages tab in each file to show the Pages panes. Press Ctrl+click all three
thumbnails in the Donna Baker file to select them.
3. Drag the thumbnails to the end of the Spec Book.PDF file's thumbnails.
4. Save the Spec Book.PDF file. The file saved to this point is used as the source file in
Chapter 7's project.