Modifying the Web capture conversion settings

Before capturing Web pages from a Web site, you can modify the conversion settings that tell Acrobat how to treat their content in the new PDF file. To do this, click the Settings button on the bottom-right side of the Create PDF from Web Page dialog box. (To open the Create PDF from Web Page dialog box, choose File➪Create PDF➪From Web Page.) Clicking the Settings button opens the Conversion Settings dialog box, The General tab is divided into two areas: File Type Settings and PDF Settings. In the File Type Settings area, you see a list box listing all the types of text and graphics files that are downloaded and converted in the new PDF file.

The only settings that you can modify in this list are the HTML and Plain Text settings. When you click either one of these types, the Settings button to the right of the list box becomes active.
When you click the Settings button when HTML is selected in the list box, Acrobat opens an HTML Conversion Settings dialog box, where you can control the default layout, colors, and fonts displayed in the Web pages you capture. Don’t mess with any of these settings if your purpose is to do a design review of the Web pages you’re about to capture because these changes could prevent users from experiencing the pages as the designers intended. The PDF Settings area in the Web Page Conversion Settings dialog box contains the following four check box options:

• Create Bookmarks: When selected, Acrobat automatically creates bookmarks for each Web page you download, using the page’s title as the bookmark name. Note that if a page doesn’t have a title, Acrobat uses the page’s URL address as the bookmark name.
• Create PDF Tags: When selected, Acrobat creates and stores a hierarchical structure in the PDF file that tells special screen-reading software for the visually impaired how to sequence the various Web page elements for reading at large magnification. The support for screen readers is part of Acrobat 6’s new group of Accessibility features designed to enhance the usability of the software for people with disabilities.
• Place Headers and Footers on New Pages: When selected, Acrobat creates page headers and footers that display the title of each Web page in the header at the top of the page and the URL of the page in the footer at the bottom.
• Save Refresh Commands: When selected, Acrobat saves a list of the URLs for all the pages captured in the PDF file that it can use to later check for updated content. You must have this conversion option selected when you capture Web pages if you want Acrobat to be able to automatically download new versions of the Web pages when it detects updated content.