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Adobe Acrobat

How to paste your signature and the date in an Acrobat PDF

Posted on November 12, 2018 by Jason / 0 Comment

For offical PDF documents (accounting, taxes etc) that have to be signed and dated and sent back, rather than printing and scanning them you can scan your signa...

Adobe Acrobat/Adobe Indesign

PDF fillable form with customised font

Posted on May 26, 2017 by Jason / 0 Comment

Note: You can create PDFs with fillable forms in Indesign only, BUT for this you cannot specify the typeface – it’ll always be Times New Roman (thou...

Adobe Acrobat

Extract / export images from a PDF with Adobe Acrobat

Posted on June 5, 2014 by Jason / 0 Comment

To extract all images, on the tool bar go to: (View >) Tools > Document Processing > Export All Images (On older versions of Acrobat this was File >...

Adobe Acrobat

How do I find page size / dimensions for a PDF in Adobe Acrobat?

Posted on March 27, 2012 by Jason / 0 Comment

1. Hover your mouse in the bottom left hand corner of the screen. OR… 2. Go to File > Properties (or ctrl+D), Page Size is at the bottom of the Descrip...

Adobe Acrobat

Reducing PDF file size in Acrobat Pro

Posted on January 21, 2011 by Jason / 0 Comment

There’s a great video about this here, where I learned the following: Open PDF in Acrobat Pro, and go to Advanced > PDF optimizer. If your PDF is only ...

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