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TIP 31: Creating a PDF from a File in Acrobat

In Acrobat 7 you can generate PDF files from within the program using the Create PDF task button. You can also select File > Create PDF and choose an option from the submenu. If you use the File > Create PDF menu path, the How To … Create PDF option isn't available. From the task button's menu, click the How To option to display a list of topic headings in the Search pane at the right of the program window.

Unless you have content placed on the system clipboard, the option From Clipboard Image is grayed out; see Tip 35 on using a clipboard image as a document source. Click the Create PDF task button to display the menu (Figure 31a). Click the first option, From File. In the resulting Open dialog box, locate the file you want to convert to PDF and click Open.

You'll see a progress bar window as Acrobat executes a macro that opens the file in the native program and converts it to a PDF (Figure 31b).

If the file is in a program that offers a PDFMaker, Acrobat uses the PDFMaker with the last conversion options you set in the program. If the file is in a program without a PDFMaker, Acrobat opens the program and converts the file using the Adobe PDF Converter.

The converted file opens in Acrobat. When converted, the file is named according to the source file's name but isn't yet saved in its PDF format. Choose File > Save to save the file as a PDF.

Not all files can be converted to a PDF from within Acrobat. The formats you can use are listed below:

• AutoDesk AutoCAD

• AutoDesk Inventor

• BMP

• GIF

• <194

• JDF Job Definition

• JPEG 2000

• Microsoft Access

• Microsoft Word

• Microsoft Excel

• Microsoft PowerPoint

• RTF (Rich Text Format)

• Microsoft Project

• Microsoft Publisher

• Microsoft Visio

• PCX

• PNG

• PostScript

• EPS

• Text

• TIFF

• XML PDF