How to Use Acrobat 5.0

Acrobat 5.0 is an application designed by Adobe for reading, creating and editing Portable Document Format (PDF) documents. The Acrobat application enables the user to scan a document or image and save it as a PDF, as well as create PDFs from existing documents. Acrobat also allows for combining PDF documents into one binder file for portability.

Difficulty: Moderately Easy

Instructions

Things You'll Need:

• Adobe Acrobat 5.0

1. Click the "Start" button on the Windows desktop.

2. Double-click on the Adobe Acrobat 5.0 program icon or application name. If a desktop shortcut is available for Acrobat, double-clicking the desktop icon will also open the program.

3. Click "File" from the top navigation menu.

4. Select an action. To open an existing PDF file, select the "Open" option. To create a PDF from another document, a scanner, a Web page or to combine several PDFs into one binder file, select the "Create PDF" option.

5. Click on the creation option from the context menu. The options are to create PDFs "From File...", "From Multiple Files...", "From Scanner..." and "From Web Page...". Select the desired PDF creation option from the menu.

6. Select the file or files to use to generate the PDF if one of the first two options was chosen.

7. Select the scanner to use from the drop-down menu if the "From Scanner...." option was chosen.

8. Navigate to the Web page to use to generate the PDF if the "From Web Page..." option was chosen.

9. Click "Edit" from the top navigation menu to edit or alter an existing PDF.

10. Click "View" from the top navigation menu to set toolbar options and view settings for the application.

11. Select "Comments" from the top navigation menu to add comments to an existing PDF. Be sure to save the document to save any edits.

References

• Performance Graphics
• Acrobat Users Forum