Thursday, January 28, 2010
Saving PDF files as HTML files
Acrobat 6 now enables you to save your PDF files in the HTML (HyperText Markup Language) file format, in essence turning them into Web pages. In Acrobat 5, you needed to download and install an Acrobat plug-in to have this functionality. Right out of the box, Acrobat 6 lets you choose between saving your PDF document in various versions of the HTML file format and in the newer XML (Extensible Markup Language) file format, which is used by many Web sites to improve Web page layout and interactivity. To save a PDF document in a Web format, choose File➪Save As, and in the Save As dialog box, click the Save As Type drop-down list to select an HTML or XML file format to convert your PDF document to, enter a name for your new file in the File Name text box, choose a drive and folder location for your saved file in the Save In drop-down list, and click the Save button.
Saving PDF files as text files
When saving PDF files as text files for use with text editors and word processing software, you have a choice between saving the PDF document in a Plain Text or an RTF. Select Plain Text when your only concern is getting the raw text into a more editable format. Select the RTF format whenever you want to preserve not only the document text but also as much formatting as possible. Always select the RTF file type when saving the text of PDF documents that you intend to edit with Microsoft Word.
Keep in mind that although RTF attempts to preserve much formatting from the PDF document, it is far from flawless, and in most cases you will end up having to do extensive reformatting in the resulting Word document. On those occasions, perhaps you can content yourself with the fact that you didn’t have to retype any of the text. Of course, if your PDF document is tagged, as would be the case for any PDF created using PDFMaker 6.0, all document formatting will be preserved when you import the PDF text into a word processor.
Keep in mind that although RTF attempts to preserve much formatting from the PDF document, it is far from flawless, and in most cases you will end up having to do extensive reformatting in the resulting Word document. On those occasions, perhaps you can content yourself with the fact that you didn’t have to retype any of the text. Of course, if your PDF document is tagged, as would be the case for any PDF created using PDFMaker 6.0, all document formatting will be preserved when you import the PDF text into a word processor.
Exporting Images in Various Graphics Formats
To save all the graphic images in the current PDF document, choose Advanced➪Export All Images. The Export All Images As dialog box appears, enabling you to save the images in one of four different file formats that you select from the Save As Type drop-down list:
Acrobat names these new graphics files by adding sequential numbers (starting with 0001) to the filename of the original PDF document (and tacking on the filename extensions .jpg for JPEG, .png for PNG, .tif for TIFF, and .jpf for JPEG2000 files in Windows). You can rename these numerical files with descriptive, more meaningful filenames either in Windows or the Mac OS or after opening them in an image editing program, such Adobe Photoshop 7.0. If you want to save a single image as its own individual file, select the image with the Select Image tool, right-click, and choose Save Image As on its context menu. In the Save Image As dialog box that appears, choose a location for your new image file on the Save In drop-down list, enter a name for the file in the File Name text box and click Save. Because you can only select either bitmap (.bmp) or JPEG (.jpg) as a file type in the Save As Type drop-down list of this dialog box, use this method to quickly create an image file that you can open, edit, and save in a number of different image file formats in your favorite image editing program.
- JPEG (Joint Photographic Experts Group): Choose this file format for true color compressed images.
- PNG (Portable Network Graphics): Choose this file format for compressed bitmap images.
- TIFF (Tagged Image File Format): Choose this file format for compressed bitmap images using both text and graphics. (TIFF is usually the format used to store the paper pages you scan.)
- JPEG2000 (Joint Photographic Experts Group): Choose this file format, a newer version of JPEG that utilizes state of the art wavelet compression, for even truer color compressed images.
Acrobat names these new graphics files by adding sequential numbers (starting with 0001) to the filename of the original PDF document (and tacking on the filename extensions .jpg for JPEG, .png for PNG, .tif for TIFF, and .jpf for JPEG2000 files in Windows). You can rename these numerical files with descriptive, more meaningful filenames either in Windows or the Mac OS or after opening them in an image editing program, such Adobe Photoshop 7.0. If you want to save a single image as its own individual file, select the image with the Select Image tool, right-click, and choose Save Image As on its context menu. In the Save Image As dialog box that appears, choose a location for your new image file on the Save In drop-down list, enter a name for the file in the File Name text box and click Save. Because you can only select either bitmap (.bmp) or JPEG (.jpg) as a file type in the Save As Type drop-down list of this dialog box, use this method to quickly create an image file that you can open, edit, and save in a number of different image file formats in your favorite image editing program.
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