Ok, we’re done with this PDF so I’ll go ahead and put this one away. And I’m not going to save it. Sometimes, you want to add a page to your PDF documentation that doesn’t exist anywhere else. And you could go over into Word or Excel or PowerPoint or pretty much any application, type your information in, convert it to Adobe PDF and bring it over into Acrobat. But if all you need to do is create some text, you don’t need to do that because within Acrobat, I have the ability to create a brand new blank PDF file from scratch. Let me show you how.
I’m going to go to the File menu. I’ll select Create PDF from Blank Page. When I do that, I get exactly what I asked for, a blank page that has nothing on it. Plus, I get a set of text editing tools that are designed to act like just about any other text editor on the planet. I can set my paragraph alignment. I can choose type faces. I can choose type sizes. I can even choose type styles, such as bold or italics, or even subscript or superscript. And then all I need to do is to come down and click, and start typing. So perhaps I want to say “Bangor is good this time of the year”. That’s the whole thing that I needed. I can very quickly create it and make a PDF file from it.
To finish this off, I want to save the PDF file and make it something that I can share with others. To do that, I’m going to select File, Save and again I’ll put this on the Desktop so I know right where it is, and I’ll name it “Bangor”. I’ll choose Save and what I’m going to do is close the document and reopen it, because I want to show you something that’s pretty neat about this document. So I’ll close it, and then I’ll choose File, Open, and because I put it right on the Desktop, there it is, the file called “Bangor”, I’ll choose Open.
Now, I’ve changed my mind. I want to say “Bangor is very good this time of the year”. And the question is, how would I do that? From the document menu, I can choose to Resume Editing of This Document because it started its life as a new blank PDF, I can résumé editing. I can put my insertion cursor where I need it, and I’ll type “very”. Now that I’m done and the issue is settled, I don’t want any more changes to this document, I’m going to come back the document, and this time I’m going to choose Prevent Further Edits, and what that will do is once I confirm that I want to do it, yes I want to prevent further edits, and it’s going to ask me to save it and I’m just going to overwrite the original one that I have on the desktop, not a problem. Yes, I want to replace it. What that’s going to do is it’s going to squeeze out all of that text editing stuff that was built into the document that allowed me to resume the editing of the document and add to it from time to time. I don’t want that anymore. I want it to be a more static plain old PDF file and that’ exactly what I have.
And that’s the sixth method for creating a PDF file. That’s pretty neat because it does allow me to start from scratch without having to go into another application which can save me some time.
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