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Reorder or Copy Pages in Acrobat

Using Acrobat, it’s easy to rearrange pages in a PDF. Just show the Pages panel on the left edge of the document window, and then drag the page thumbnails into a new order. To copy pages from one PDF to another, just drag their thumbnails from the Pages panel in one PDF to the other. See [...]

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Tip: Use PDF2DTP to Extract Images from PDFs

I’m creating an EPUB book in QuarkXPress, and the client gave me a PDF containing his suggestions along with some product images for the book. He’s not easily available, so I didn’t want bother him to re-send me the images as separate files. What to do? I remembered that Markzware’s PDF2DTP XTension for QuarkXPress can [...]

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How to Quickly See Info About Items in a PDF

In Acrobat, an easy way to see information about a piece of content on a PDF page, including text, is to use the Object Inspector in the Output Preview dialog box. To open the Output Preview dialog box, do this: In Acrobat X and above, choose View> Tools> Print Production, and click on Output Preview. [...]

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New GWG Specs for PDF

The Ghent Workgroup (GWG) has released its free GWG2012 specification that provides a set of preflight checks and best practice guidelines for a reliable PDF/X-4 based workflow. The new guidelines address new issues such as transparency and layers, and checking of transparency blend color spaces. It also adds new checks for different industry segments. For [...]

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