Modifying the Web capture preferences

When you download and save Web pages as PDF files in Acrobat 6, the program uses a set of default capture settings that you can modify. To change the Web capture settings, choose Edit➪Preferences or press Ctrl+K (Ô+K on the Mac) to open the Preferences dialog box. Click Web Capture in the scroll list on the left side of the Preferences dialog box to view those options.
You can modify the Web Capture default settings by changing any of the following options:

• Verify Stored Images: This setting tells Acrobat how often to check online for updates to the images on the Web pages that you’ve captured in your PDF files. When the default setting, Once Per Session, is selected, Acrobat automatically checks for updates just once when you first open the PDF file (provided that you have Internet access at that time). You can change this setting by selecting either Always (for continuous checking) or Never on its drop-down list.
• Open Weblinks: This setting indicates whether Acrobat should download and save new Web pages in Acrobat when you click their Web links or simply display the pages in your Web browser. Note that the Specify Weblink Behavior dialog box inherits the setting you select here as its default (which you can override by holding down the Shift key when you click a Web link).
• Show Bookmarks Panel When New PDF File (Created from Web Page) Is Opened: This check box tells Acrobat whether or not to display the Navigation pane with the Bookmarks palette selected when you first open a PDF file with the captured Web pages. Deselect this check box when you don’t want to give up valuable viewing real estate in the Document window to the Navigation pane. Note that Acrobat creates bookmarks for the downloaded Web pages whether or not this check box is selected.
• Skip Downloading Secured Pages: The radio buttons under this heading indicate whether or not Acrobat should skip over the downloading of password-protected Web pages on the site you’re capturing. Select the Always radio button to have the program immediately skip over all such pages. Select the After radio button and specify the number of seconds in the associated text box to have the program stop and prompt you for the site’s password dialog box for the number of seconds specified, only to then automatically skip the downloading of that page and continue downloading other pages if you don’t respond to the prompt.
• Reset Conversion Settings to Defaults: This button resets all the conversion settings to their original values (see the following section for information on changing the conversion settings).