Category Archives: Tutorial

Embedding Fonts with Acrobat Pro’s Preflight Tool

Posted on June 9, 2014 by Karl Heinz Kremer

Before we talk about how to embed fonts in a PDF file, let’s take a step back and get an idea about how fonts can be used in a PDF file. There are three different methods: A PDF file can … Continue reading →

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Extract PDF Pages Based on Content

Posted on April 25, 2014 by Karl Heinz Kremer

How would we identify pages in a PDF document that contain a certain word and extract those pages into a new document? This can be done with a few lines of JavaScript – there are different ways to do this: … Continue reading →

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PDF Navigation Buttons to Return to First Page

Posted on March 25, 2014 by Karl Heinz Kremer

Can you create a PDF navigation button on each page of your document that brings you back to the first page without a single line of JavaScript? Yes, and here is how: Load your document and go to the second … Continue reading →

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Creating a PDF Stamp File from Scratch

Posted on March 14, 2014 by Karl Heinz Kremer

In my last post I wrote about how to modify existing dynamic PDF stamps in Adobe Acrobat. This time, I’d like to demonstrate how a “normal” PDF file containing different stamp images can be converted to a PDF stamp file … Continue reading →

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Modify Dynamic PDF Stamps in Acrobat

Posted on January 31, 2014 by Karl Heinz Kremer

Adobe Acrobat comes with a number of dynamic PDF stamps. You can select them by going to the Comment pane on the right side, then click on the Stamp tool to bring up the list of stamps. All the factory … Continue reading →

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Duplicate a Page in Adobe Acrobat

Posted on January 15, 2014 by Karl Heinz Kremer

Here is a little secret: It is very easy to duplicate a page in Adobe Acrobat and most Acrobat users don’t know about this trick. Open up Acrobat and display the Page Thumbnails pane: Before we talk about how to … Continue reading →

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