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[edit] Converting to PDF With Adobe Acrobat

1. Install Adobe Acrobat.
2. Open the document you would like to convert, within the application you used to create it or another application that will open it (and has a print option).
3. If the Convert to Adobe PDF buttons appear in the toolbar, click it. Go to Step 8.
   

   MS Word Acrobat button
4. Go to print the document but change the printer.
5. Choose Acrobat Distiller as the "printer". (Two most common window styles shown below.)
   

   Print menu 1
   

   Print menu 2
6. Click OK or Print.
7. Choose the destination of the file - within the folder of the original document or create a new folder that contains your PDF documents.
   

   Save as a PDF
8. The new PDF document will open in Adobe Acrobat, within a few seconds.
9. Click on Adobe Acrobat in the taskbar.
   

   Taskbar
10. The document can now be viewed and edited in Adobe Acrobat.
    

    Editing In Acrobat

[edit] Adding a Digital Signature

To add a digital signature to your document you must have a User Profile or create one.

1. Select (Invisibly) Sign Document from Digital Signatures or click on
2. If you are not logged in, the window below will appear after selecting the area that the signature will be placed. Either choose your User profile or create a new one.
3. Select the area where you would like the signature to appear.

[edit] Document Security

Document security can be synonymies with document in-accessibility. When you encrypt the file screen readers and other tools, which otherwise are very happy with PDF files, are locked out. If encryption is important, then by all means use it, but otherwise you probably should skip it.

1. With the document open select Document Security from the File menu.
2. Select if you would like to impose the standard security (Acrobat Standard Security) or create User Profiles (Acrobat Self-Sign Security).
3. The Acrobat Standard Security allows you to select the Encryption level.
4. With Acrobat 3.x or 4.x the following options are available:
5. With Acrobat 5.x the following options are available:
6. Changes Allowed:
7. Printing restrictions possible:
8. The Acrobat Self-Sign Security allows you to create User Profiles.
9. Select New User Profile.
10. Fill in the User information.
11. Click OK.
12. Save the profile in a designated folder.
13. Click OK if finished.
14. Click User Settings to change the following properties:
15. A signature can verify you are the author of a document.
16. Trusted Certificates are people that can view your documents.
17. You can request their certificate to be sent to you as well as sending your own at the same time.
18. Click Close when finished.
19. To log in or change your setting, choose Self-Sign Security under the Tools menu and select the appropriate option.

[edit] Editing

Remember, one option is to simply open the original file, edit it and convert it again. This may or may not achive your goal.

1. To edit the text within the PDF document select the Text TouchUp tool.
2. Select the line of text that needs to be edited, and then make the appropriate changes.
3. To select an object (to move or delete) use the TouchUp Object Tool.
4. Select the object and drag it into its new position or delete it by pressing the <Delete> key.

[edit] Altering Document Pages

1. From the Document you can choose to Insert Pages, Extract Pages, Replace Pages, or Delete Pages.
2. Choose the file you wish to insert (it will insert the entire PDF).
3. Select where you would like the file inserted into the current document.
4. Choose the pages you would like removed.
5. Choose the replacement file (it use the entire PDF).
6. Select the pages you would like to replace in the original document and then select what page to begin in the replacement file.
7. There should be the same amount of pages available as those being replaced, otherwise the replacement files will just duplicate to make up for the extra pages.
8. Choose the pages to be extracted and check the box underneath, if you would like the pages to be deleted when the extraction is done.
9. The file containing the extracted pages will open and it can then be saved as a new file.