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PDF Enhancer Professional 3.5 Improves Color, Security

Apago’s PDF Enhancer Professional 3.5 is an application that performs many useful tasks that are difficult or impossible in Acrobat. For example, it lets you instantly reduce the file size of a PDF, and set its viewing options, metadata and security. It can downsample and compress images and text to be suitable for any delivery [...]

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Use Adobe Reader as Presentation Tool

You can use Adobe Acrobat or Adobe Reader to create an impressive presentation from any document you can print. First, create a PDF from your document. Then, open the PDF in Acrobat or Reader, choose Acrobat/Adobe Reader> Preferences> Full Screen and select options to let Acrobat or Reader automatically advance from page to page at [...]

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Right-click in Acrobat or QuarkXPress for Quick Options

When you’re in Acrobat (or any application, including QuarkXPress!), try right-clicking (or Control-clicking) on items and empty spaces in your document — and on items in palettes ad panels. In Acrobat, you can right-click on a page to access Add Sticky Note, Add Bookmark, Document Properties and Page Display Preferences. If you right-click on a [...]

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Create and Update a Table of Contents in QuarkXPress

QuarkXPress can generate a table of contents for you, based on a style sheet that you’ve applied to items in your document. You can then use that TOC to navigate your open document, or automatically format it as a printed TOC on a document page, or even export it as hyperlinks in a PDF! In [...]

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