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Tracker for XML RSS Newsfeeds

Saturday, April 30th, 2005

Digitip 034 - Acrobat 7 Professional
What are these orange XML icons with RSS newsfeed (or other) written next to them are appearing on more and more web-sites… and what can Acrobat do with them?

Access the dictionary from your PDF

Thursday, April 14th, 2005

Digitip 033 - Adobe Acrobat / Adobe Reader (quick tip)
You are reading this really complex PDF and all of a sudden the word “vegemite” appears.  You’re not an Australian and wonder what this is.  And grab your dictionary and turn the pages till you get to the letter ‘v’, to discover the word doesn’t seem [...]

Printing to Adobe PDF (OSX)

Tuesday, April 27th, 2004

Digitip 024 - Adobe Acrobat 6 / Adobe InDesign CS
Revision 1.0
This tip has been added by popular request. On installation of Adobe Acrobat, the Adobe PDF printer is added to the list of printers in your printer utility (Applications/Utilities folder). This printer can be used to output files to PDF directly as if printing to [...]

Easy PDF Browsing in Internet Explorer

Sunday, September 7th, 2003

Digitip 015 - Adobe Acrobat 6
If you’re like me and have stacks of PDF reference files stored in multiple directories on your server or workstation, then this tip might useful for you. During a typical installation of Acrobat 6 you install a feature that allows management of converted web pages from Internet Explorer. It was [...]

Mediabox, bleedbox, trimbox info

Tuesday, July 8th, 2003

Digitip 011 - Adobe Acrobat 6
When creating PDFs that are PDF/X compliant it is a requirement that the MediaBox, TrimBox and BleedBox are properly defined in the PDF. Acrobat 6’s Crop command is a handy tool to reference the various box sizes.

Faster search and retrieval

Sunday, June 29th, 2003

Digitip 010 - Adobe Acrobat 6
Revision 2.0
If you are used to searching long PDF documents and folders full of PDFs, then you might have been spending quite a bit of time waiting for the search to be completed. When I originally wrote this tip last year I actually measured search times and found that the [...]

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