Adobe ACROBAT 9 HOW-TOS - Attaching Source Files to a PDF

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#24: Attaching Source Files to a PDF
Acrobat 9 provides a feature for attaching source les to a converted
document (except for open les), and oers a pane for managing
attachments.
If you are working in a source program that contains a PDFMaker
(such as Word in Windows), choose Adobe PDF > Change Conversion
Settings to open the Acrobat PDFMaker dialog. Click “Attach source le to
Adobe PDF” in the Application Settings area of the Settings tab, shown in
Figure 10a in #10, “Using PDFMaker in Microsoft Word.” Then click OK.
You can attach any type of le from within Acrobat, and use an icon placed
anywhere on your page that your users click to view the attachment.
1. Choose Comments > Comment & Markup Tools > Attach a File as a
Comment.
2. Move the pointer, which looks like a pushpin, over the document to
where you want to display the attachment icon and click to place the
icon.
3. Locate and select the le in the Browse for Attachment dialog, and
click Select.
4. Choose an alternate icon, color, or opacity in the File Attachment
Properties dialog (
Figure 24a). Select the General tab to display
elds where you can modify the attachment’s name, your name, and
a description of the attachment. Click Close.
Figure 24a You can customize the appearance of the icon in the dialog.
Attaching Source
Files to a PDF
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Tools, Tools, and
More Tools
The tools for attaching a file
to a document aren’t shown
on the default Acrobat 9
toolbars. You can add the
tools if you intend to work
with attached files during
a session. It’s not worth the
time to locate and attach the
tools for attaching (get it?)
if you are likely to reset the
toolbars. Instead, use the
command from the menu.
Right-click (Control-click)
the toolbar well and choose
More Tools. You can select
the Attach a File tool
from the File toolbar list, or
the Attach a File as a Com-
ment tool from the
Comment & Markup toolbar
list in the More Tools dialog.
From the Library of Daniel Dadian