How to use Adobe Acrobat to create PDF?

How to use Adobe Acrobat to create PDF? Maybe this is a simple but typical question that confused most people, even they have spent much money to puchase this very expensive PDF creator, users always cannot find an efficent way to create PDF with it.

Most of us have viewed PDF files in the daily life and work, but there are some times you might want tocreate PDF for yourself. Now, in this article, I will introduce you the detail steps to use Adobe Acrobat Pro to create PDF. Of course, you need to purchase this professional PDF tool at first before starting.

Sometimes, we already have other electronic files like Word document, Excel spreadsheet, or web page on our computer and what we want to do is to convert these documents to PDF format for sharing. Then you could follow below steps to create PDF from other files.

Step1, open the document you want to covnert to PDF.

Step2, go to File, select Print from the top menu. Please note: Do not click the print toolbar icon.

Step3, choose Adobe PDF from the list as your current printer.

Step4, click the OK button to convert to PDF.

Step5, choose a filename and folder to locate the converted PDF files.

Note: the PDFs created from Word, Excel and website in this way is searchable and allowed copying by other people.

There are some cases that you need to create fillable PDF formats. For example, you want to publish an online fillable PDF form to allow the candidates to fill in personal information. At this time, you could use Adobe Acrobat to create a fillable PDF form as tips below.

Step1, open your document in Adobe Acrobat.

Step2, go to Tools > Advanced Editing > Text Field.

Step3, outline the area you would like to be fillable by using the crosshair cursor. Tips: there will be a dialogue box pop up for you to set the text field, like border style, color and font, etc. Or you could let them as default.

Step4, save the fillable PDF format document.

Notes: Adobe Reader can not allow you save the changes in the PDF form, if you want to save the filled information, you also need to use the Adobe Acorbat Pro or Stand; or you can find some PDF converterto convert the form to editable Word format to edit PDF in Word.

It's only Adobe Acrobat could help to create fillable PDF form, but to create PDF from other files, you could find some alternatives to convert documents to PDF, like office to PDF converter and images to PDF creator, etc.

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