Adobe Acrobat 5.0 [OLD VERSION]

Acrobat 5.0 is also capable of converting most file types by employing the print command into a PDF. You can also choose to either be read online or viewed with the reader and printed out. The PDF format renders the advantage of simplifying tasks such as editing, formatting, or other tasking on any computer appears to have a similar format, regardless of monitor type or monitor resolution. This is a terrific tool for the frequent reader, especially if one prowls the web or has friends with machines with different formats who often send you materials you are otherwise left puzzled and frustrated in trying to decode and view. it is a great product, and well worth the investment! Enjoy!

As well as its cross platform performance Acrobat 5 and its predecessors have the ability to contain any non-standard fonts so that your document will not be disturbed if the Acrobat Reader in someone else?s machine doesn?t have the font that you set the document with. So if you decided to use lots of Klingon Sans Serif Bold, for example, and embedded it into your document the recipient?s reader would render the pages accordingly instead of substituting the nearest it could find. The downside is, that a document of only 10 KB without any embedded fonts can end up at 300KB or more when fonts are embedded.

A good example of this was Stephen King?s, The Plant, distributed in the PDF format. Using standard fonts, and no embedding, the individual episodes would have been about 150 - 200 KB instead of in excess of 1.0 MB.

So care should be exercised with regard to ultimate document compatibility, and ask yourself - do I really need all those non-standard fonts? I find Times New Roman to be a very satisfactory choice for screen ad printing, and it doesn?t need to be embedded.

Colour:

Sometimes it may be necessary to ensure that coloured parts of a document are reproducible to a high degree of accuracy. When you Distil a document you have the option to tag your document with colour profile details so that those with equipment capable of working with ICC profiles will be consistent with you. This adds a lot of size to your file. So, as with fonts, only tag if really required. Be sure to check your Distiller job option settings under the colour management tab, and check the tag or don?t tag box accordingly, since installing Acrobat into different versions of an OS can have different default settings, leading to unintentional, and confusing results.

Acrobat 5.0 can convert any file type using the print command, into a PDF, which, when viewed by someone with the free Acrobat Reader, can be read online or viewed with the reader and printed out. The advantage of the PDF format means that editing, formatting on any monitor, any computer looks as it should on anyone computer, regardless of the monitor's resolution setting or computer platform.

Another feature, new in version 5.0 is "reflow." Next to the Actual View, Fit Page and Fit Width icons is the new option, Reflow. Select this and the current page?s text will automatically "reflow" or reformat to fit the current window size. Change the window size or zoom, and the text automatically reflows to accommodate! This may seem unnecessary for most applications, but consider the handheld, ie Palm, Handspring or Visor. These devices use smaller screens and zoom-in. If you develop applications or documents to be used on handhelds, this feature is useful to check if you have tagged your PDF correctly for these applications. A nice feature, indeed.

One word of caution: if you have an older Adobe Reader, you may need to upgrade your reader to use files created with Adobe Acrobat 5.0. If you put PDF files on your website, you should indicate the version of reader your visitors should use.