Editing PDFs - Add a bookmark

You can add navigation to a PDF with bookmarks.

1. Open to the desired page and adjust the view settings.
2. (Optional) To bookmark text, select the desired text.
3. Click the Bookmarks button in the navigation pane, and choose New Bookmark from the Options menu.
4. Type or edit the bookmark name.

You can also add bookmarks to specific portions of a page, such as an image or a table, or to another PDF.

Take a snapshot of a page

You can use the Snapshot tool to copy all selected content (text, images, or both) to the clipboard or to another application. Text and images are copied as an image.

1. Select the Snapshot Tool by choosing Tools > Select & Zoom.
2. Do one of the following:

   • Click anywhere in the page to capture the entire content displayed on the screen.

   • Drag a rectangle around the text or images, or a combination of both.

   • Drag a rectangle within an image to copy just a portion of the image.

     Colors in the selected area are inverted momentarily to highlight the selection. The selection is copied automatically to the clipboard when you release the mouse button. If a document is open in another application, you can choose Edit > Paste to paste the copied selection directly into the target document.

     Note: You can save all the images from a PDF.

Images copying

You can copy and paste individual images from a PDF to the clipboard (Windows only), to another application, or to a file using the Select tool.

If you cannot select an image because of overlapping text, choose Edit > Preferences (Windows) or Acrobat > Preferences (Mac OS), select General on the left, and select the Make Select Tool Select Images Before Text option.

1. Using the Select tool , do one of the following:

   • To select the entire image, click it or drag a rectangle around it.

   • To select a portion of an image, hold the pointer over the image until the crosshairs icon appears, and then drag a rectangle around the portion.
     

   Note: To deselect an image and start over, click outside it.
   
   
2. Copy the image:

   • Choose Edit > Copy, and then choose Edit > Paste to paste the image in an open document in another application.

   • Right/Control-click the image and choose an option to copy the image to the clipboard or to a new file.

   • Drag the image into an open document in another application.

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Export PDFs

You can save a PDF to a number of different file formats, and then open and use that file in other applications. The available formats include both text and image formats. To make a PDF compatible with earlier versions of Acrobat and Adobe Reader, you can resave the PDF to an earlier version of the PDF format.

1. With the PDF open, do one of the following:

• Click the Export button in the Tasks toolbar and choose a file format or choose More Formats.
• Choose File > Export, and choose a file format.
• Choose File > Save As, and choose a file format from the menu.

2. Click Settings to set conversion options. (If the Settings button is unavailable, there are no options for the format that you selected.) Click OK to apply the settings. Conversion settings can also be edited in the Convert From PDF Preferences.

Note: These conversion settings are stored separately from the settings used with the Export All Images command.

3. Click Save to export the PDF to the selected file format.
By default, the source file name is used as the file name, with the new extension, and the exported file is saved in the same folder as the source file. When you save a PDF in an image format, each page is saved as a separate file.

Export images to another format

In addition to saving every page (all text, images, and vector objects on a page) to an image format using the File > Save As command, you can export each image in a PDF to an image format.

Note: You can export raster images, but not vector objects.

1. Choose Advanced > Document Processing > Export All Images.
2. In the Export All Images As dialog box, choose a file format for the images. By default, exported image files use the source file name.
3. Click Settings.
4. In the Export All Images As Settings dialog box, select the file settings, color management, and conversion settings for the file type.
5. For Exclude Images Smaller Than, select the smallest size of image to be extracted. Select No Limit to extract all images.
6. Click OK, and in the Export All Images As dialog box, click Save or OK.

Rearranging pages in a PDF - Part 3

Delete or replace a page
You can replace an entire PDF page with another PDF page. Only the text and images on the original page are replaced. Any interactive elements associated with the original page, such as links and bookmarks, are not affected. Likewise, bookmarks and links that may have been previously associated with the replacement page do not carry over. Comments, however, are carried over and are combined with any existing comments in the document.

After you delete or replace pages, it’s a good idea to use the Reduce File Size command to rename and save the restructured document to the smallest possible file size.

Delete pages, using the Delete command
Note: You cannot undo the Delete command.

1. Choose Document > Delete Pages.
2. Enter the page range to be deleted, and click OK.
You cannot delete all pages; at least one page must remain in the document.

Delete pages, using page thumbnails
1. In the Pages panel, select a page or group of pages:

• Select the page number box of the thumbnail or the page thumbnail itself.
• Shift-click to select a range of page thumbnails. Ctrl-click/Command-click to add to the selection. Or, in Windows, press Ctrl+A to select all thumbnails, and then Ctrl-click to deselect the pages that you want to keep.
• Drag a rectangle around a group of page thumbnails.

Do one of the following:

• Choose Delete Pages from the Pages panel Options menu, and click OK.
• Click the trash icon at the top of the Pages panel.

Delete material associated with a tagged bookmark

1. In the Bookmarks panel, click the tagged bookmark for the material you want to delete. Shift-click to select multiple bookmarks.
2. Choose Delete Page(s) from the Options menu. The tagged bookmark and its associated page are deleted from the document.

Replace the contents of a page
1. Open the PDF that contains the pages you want to replace.
2. Choose Document > Replace Pages.
3. Select the document containing the replacement pages, and click Select.
4. Under Original, enter the pages to be replaced in the original document.
5. Under Replacement, enter the first page of the replacement page range. The last page is calculated based on the number of pages to be replaced in the original document.

Replace pages using a page thumbnail

1. Open the PDF that contains the pages you want to replace, and then open the PDF that contains the replacement pages.
2. In the Pages panel of the PDF that contains the replacement pages, select a page or group of pages:

• Select the page number boxes of the page thumbnails that you want to use as replacement pages.
• Shift-click to select multiple page thumbnails. Ctrl-click/Command-click to add to the selection.
• Drag a rectangle around a group of page thumbnails.

Drag the selected page thumbnails onto the Pages panel of the target document. Release the mouse button when the pointer is directly over the page number box of the first page thumbnail you want to replace so that these pages become highlighted. The pages you selected in the first document replace the same number of pages in the second document, starting at the page number you selected to drop the new pages on.

Rearranging pages in a PDF - Part 2

Move or copy a page

You can use page thumbnails to copy or move pages within a document and between documents.

When you drag a page thumbnail in a Pages panel, a bar appears near other thumbnails, indicating the position in which it will appear in the PDF. This bar appears at the bottom or top when the thumbnails are in a single column, or to the left or right if more than one column of thumbnails is displayed.

Note: Tagged bookmarks affect the order that reading devices follow, such as devices for the visually impaired. Tagged bookmarks do not change the sequence of pages in a PDF.

Move or copy a page within a PDF, using page thumbnails

Click the Pages button to open the Pages panel, and select one or more page thumbnails.
Do one of the following:

• To move a page, drag the page number box of the corresponding page thumbnail or the page thumbnail itself to the new location. A bar appears to show the new position of the page thumbnail. The pages are renumbered.
• To copy a page, Ctrl-drag/Option-drag the page thumbnail to a second location.

Move or copy a page between two PDFs, using page thumbnails

1. Open both PDFs, and display them side by side.
2. Open the Pages panels for both PDFs, and do one of the following:

• To copy a page, drag the page thumbnail into the Pages panel of the target PDF. The page is copied into the document, and the pages are renumbered.
• To remove a page from one PDF and insert it into another PDF, select the page thumbnail and Ctrl-drag/Option-drag into the Pages panel of the target PDF. The page is inserted into the target document and deleted from the source document. The pages are renumbered.