Assembling the Package - Adobe Acrobat and PDF for Architecture, Engineering, and Construction - page 77

Replacing Pages
Replacing pages may seem, on the surface, the same as inserting pages. The final outcome is the same; that
is, in either case you have substituted content in the file. However, the two actions have quite different
effects on the receiving document.
If you have added content to a page, such as links or comments, deleting and replacing the page also
removes the additional content. Instead, if you use the Replace Pages command, only the underlying page is
replaced, leaving the additional content intact.
Follow these steps to replace pages in a file:
1. Select the thumbnails for the page or pages in the Pages pane, and choose Document > Replace
Pages.
2. In the resulting dialog box, locate the document containing the pages you want to use for the
replacement and click Select. The dialog box closes, and the Replace Pages dialog box opens listing
the name of the selected file.
3. Specify page numbers in both the Original and Replacement sections of the dialog; selected pages in
the original document are identified in the Original pages fields.
4. Click OK, and then click OK again to confirm the replacement to close the dialog box and make the
modification to the file.
Configuring the Pages Pane and Thumbnails
Increase or decrease the size of thumbnails in the Pages pane by choosing Enlarge (or Reduce) Page
Thumbnails from the Page pane's Options menu. Decrease the size of the thumbnails for an overview of a
document's content; increase the size of the thumbnails when using large images or slides to see the
content more easily. Resize the Pages pane to display the thumbnails in multiple panels if necessary by
dragging the divider bar at the right edge of the Pages pane right to increase the width of the pane.
Thumbnails can be embedded or unembedded. Embedded thumbnails make viewing a large document
faster, as the thumbnails do not have to be redrawn. However, embedding adds to file size. When
changes are made to the document the thumbnails are not automatically updated, but must be un-
embedded and re-embedded using the appropriate commands on the Options menu of the Pages pane.
Cropping Pages
Click the Crop tool on the Advanced Editing toolbar, and drag a marquee roughly the size of the area
you want to crop on the page on the Document pane. Double-click within the marquee to open the Crop
Pages dialog box and show the marquee in the dialog box's preview area.
Cropping can be applied to an entire document or to selected pages by following these steps:
1. Choose Document > Pages > Crop to open the Crop Pages dialog box; the Crop radio button is
selected by default (Figure 7.3).
2. Click the Units drop-down arrow to select an alternative unit of measure for the cropping rather than
the default inches if necessary.
3. Click Constrain Proportions to crop the page equally on all four sides, or adjust the individual
margins using the Margin Controls by typing new values or clicking the arrows for each margin to
reset its value. As you make adjustments, you can see the cropping outline in the preview area of the
dialog and also on the Document pane adjust. Click Set to Zero to restore the original margins of the
page.