Create and customize PDF Portfolios (2024)

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1. Access Acrobat from desktop, mobile, web
2. What's new in Acrobat
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4. System Requirements
Workspace
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2. Opening and viewing PDFs
  1. Opening PDFs
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Creating PDFs
1. Overview of PDF creation
2. Create PDFs with Acrobat
3. Create PDFs with PDFMaker
4. Using the Adobe PDF printer
5. Converting web pages to PDF
6. Creating PDFs with Acrobat Distiller
7. Adobe PDF conversion settings
8. PDF fonts
Editing PDFs
1. Edit text in PDFs
2. Edit images or objects in a PDF
3. Rotate, move, delete, and renumber PDF pages
4. Edit scanned PDFs
5. Enhance document photos captured using a mobile camera
6. Optimizing PDFs
7. PDF properties and metadata
8. Links and attachments in PDFs
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11. Action Wizard (Acrobat Pro)
12. PDFs converted to web pages
13. Setting up PDFs for a presentation
14. PDF articles
15. Geospatial PDFs
16. Applying actions and scripts to PDFs
17. Change the default font for adding text
18. Delete pages from a PDF
Scan and OCR
1. Scan documents to PDF
2. Enhance document photos
3. Troubleshoot scanner issues when scanning using Acrobat
Forms
1. PDF forms basics
2. Create a form from scratch in Acrobat
3. Create and distribute PDF forms
4. Fill in PDF forms
5. PDF form field properties
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7. Setting action buttons in PDF forms
8. Publishing interactive PDF web forms
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10. PDF barcode form fields
11. Collect and manage PDF form data
12. About forms tracker
13. PDF forms help
14. Send PDF forms to recipients using email or an internal server
Combining files
1. Combine or merge files into single PDF
2. Rotate, move, delete, and renumber PDF pages
3. Add headers, footers, and Bates numbering to PDFs
4. Crop PDF pages
5. Add watermarks to PDFs
6. Add backgrounds to PDFs
7. Working with component files in a PDF Portfolio
8. Publish and share PDF Portfolios
9. Overview of PDF Portfolios
10. Create and customize PDF Portfolios
Sharing, reviews, and commenting
1. Share and track PDFs online
2. Mark up text with edits
3. Preparing for a PDF review
4. Starting a PDF review
5. Hosting shared reviews on SharePoint or Office 365 sites
6. Participating in a PDF review
7. Add comments to PDFs
8. Adding a stamp to a PDF
9. Approval workflows
10. Managing comments | view, reply, print
11. Importing and exporting comments
12. Tracking and managing PDF reviews
Saving and exporting PDFs
1. Saving PDFs
2. Convert PDF to Word
3. Convert PDF to JPG
4. Convert or export PDFs to other file formats
5. File format options for PDF export
6. Reusing PDF content
Security
1. Enhanced security setting for PDFs
2. Securing PDFs with passwords
3. Manage Digital IDs
4. Securing PDFs with certificates
5. Opening secured PDFs
6. Removing sensitive content from PDFs
7. Setting up security policies for PDFs
8. Choosing a security method for PDFs
9. Security warnings when a PDF opens
10. Securing PDFs with Adobe Experience Manager
11. Protected View feature for PDFs
12. Overview of security in Acrobat and PDFs
13. JavaScripts in PDFs as a security risk
14. Attachments as security risks
15. Allow or block links in PDFs
Electronic signatures
1. Sign PDF documents
2. Capture your signature on mobile and use it everywhere
3. Send documents for e-signatures
4. About certificate signatures
5. Certificate-based signatures
6. Validating digital signatures
7. Adobe Approved Trust List
8. Manage trusted identities
Printing
1. Basic PDF printing tasks
2. Print Booklets and PDF Portfolios
3. Advanced PDF print settings
4. Print to PDF
5. Printing color PDFs (Acrobat Pro)
6. Printing PDFs in custom sizes
Accessibility, tags, and reflow
1. Create and verify PDF accessibility
2. Accessibility features in PDFs
3. Reading Order tool for PDFs
4. Reading PDFs with reflow and accessibility features
5. Edit document structure with the Content and Tags panels
6. Creating accessible PDFs
Searching and indexing
1. Creating PDF indexes
2. Searching PDFs
Multimedia and 3D models
1. Add audio, video, and interactive objects to PDFs
2. Adding 3D models to PDFs (Acrobat Pro)
3. Displaying 3D models in PDFs
4. Interacting with 3D models
5. Measuring 3D objects in PDFs
6. Setting 3D views in PDFs
7. Enable 3D content in PDF
8. Adding multimedia to PDFs
9. Commenting on 3D designs in PDFs
10. Playing video, audio, and multimedia formats in PDFs
11. Add comments to videos
Print production tools (Acrobat Pro)
1. Print production tools overview
2. Printer marks and hairlines
3. Previewing output
4. Transparency flattening
5. Color conversion and ink management
6. Trapping color
Preflight (Acrobat Pro)
1. PDF/X-, PDF/A-, and PDF/E-compliant files
2. Preflight profiles
3. Advanced preflight inspections
4. Preflight reports
5. Viewing preflight results, objects, and resources
6. Output intents in PDFs
7. Correcting problem areas with the Preflight tool
8. Automating document analysis with droplets or preflight actions
9. Analyzing documents with the Preflight tool
10. Additional checks in the Preflight tool
11. Preflight libraries
12. Preflight variables
Color management
1. Keeping colors consistent
2. Color settings
3. Color-managing documents
4. Working with color profiles
5. Understanding color management

Before you begin

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Create PDF Portfolios

You no longer require Flash Player installed on your system to create or view portfolios. You can easily create folders within your PDF Portfolio, delete component files and folders, edit component filenames, and add and edit descriptions of component files.

Create a basic PDF Portfolio ina few quick steps.

Open Acrobat and select the hamburger menu (Windows), or theFilemenu (macOS), then selectCreate > PDF Portfolio.
Select Add Filesmenu in the upper left of the Create PDF Portfolio window. You can add a file, folder of files, pages from a scanner, web page, or items in the clipboard.

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SelectCreate to add the files to the PDF Portfolio.
The selected files are added to your portfolio, and a new portfolio window opens displaying the files in your portfolio.

Note:

In Windows, the Acrobat PDFMaker in Outlook and Lotus Notes can create PDF Portfolios when you convert email messages.

Add files and folders to a PDF Portfolio

Note:

As you cannot change the order of files in the PDF Portfolio, it is recommended to add the files in a sequential order. Also, if you add a folder, the files in the folder are added in the alphabetical order.

You can add content to an existing PDF Portfolio.

From an open PDF Portfolio, do any of the following:

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- Right-click in the PDF portfolio window to open the secondary toolbar, then selectAdd Files, Add Folder, or Add Web Content.
- To create a folder, select the Create Folder icon in the secondary toolbar.
- To add files from your computer, drag any files or folders to the PDF Portfolio workspace or a folder in the left pane.
Note:
For best performance, keep the total number ofcomponent files at 15 or less, and the total size of all componentfiles under 50 MB.

Rearrange files in a PDF Portfolio

In the navigation pane of a PDF Portfolio, do the following:

Drag to rearrange files within a folder of the PDF Portfolio.
Drag a file into a folder or drag a folder to another folder if both are at the same level.

Add web content to a PDF Portfolio

You can link to websites or embed video tags.Linking to web content is useful when you want to reduce the filesize of the PDF Portfolio.

Right-click in the PDF portfolio window, and select Add Web Content.
Enter a filename and description for the web content that gets added to your PDF Portfolio. This web file links to the web content you specify.
Do one of the following:
- To link to a website, select Add A Web Link, and then add the URL.
- To embed a video tag, select Add An Embed Tag, and then paste the video’s embed code. Video-sharing websites usually include a way to copy a video’s embed code. For example, a website could include an Embed box that shows the code and other embedding options.

You can convert multimedia files, such as MP3 to PDF within a PDF Portfolio. You can also convert these files to PDF if they are encoded in H.264 (with AAC audio): MOV, M4V, MP4, 3GP, and 3G2. (H.264 and AAC are encoding and compression options for movies.)

From an open PDF Portfolio, right-click/Control-click one or more multimedia files in the PDF Portfolio and select Convert To PDF.
If a dialog box appears, specify the options as needed and click OK.

Remove or extract files and folders from a PDF Portfolio

If you delete a folder, all files inside it are deleted from the PDF Portfolio. You can also extract one or more components from the PDF Portfolio and save them separately.

- From an open PDF Portfolio, select one or more files or folders in the PDF Portfolio and press Delete or select the Delete File icon to remove the selected item from the portfolio.
- If you want to extract (or save) an item from your portfolio, select the Extract From Portfolio icon , select a location to save the selected item and select Save.

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How do I create a PDF portfolio? ›

Create a basic PDF Portfolio in a few quick steps.

Open Acrobat and select the hamburger menu (Windows), or the File menu (macOS), then select Create > PDF Portfolio.
Select Add Files menu in the upper left of the Create PDF Portfolio window. ...
Select Create to add the files to the PDF Portfolio.

Dec 20, 2023

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How do I make a PDF customizable? ›

How to make a PDF editable with Acrobat.

Open your PDF file in Acrobat Pro.
Click the Edit PDF tool on the right-hand panel. ...
Use editing tools to add new text, edit text, or update fonts using selections from the Format drop-down list.
Move, add, replace, or resize images using the tools in the Objects list.

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What is the difference between a PDF and a PDF portfolio? ›

A PDF Package/Portfolio is when multiple documents are packaged together into one PDF file. The documents can be in different formats and created in different applications. Each individual document retains its individual properties.

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What is the best program to make a PDF portfolio? ›

The best tool for creating a PDF Portfolio may be Adobe Acrobat Pro. It has a shorter learning curve and offers more professional functions compared to Bluebeam, which is also expensive for the subscription.

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How to create a PDF portfolio online for free? ›

How to make a digital portfolio online ?

PDF UPLOAD. Save your portfolio as a PDF file and upload it to Publuu. ...
CUSTOMIZE YOUR CONTENT. Set the background by choosing one of our free portfolio templates. ...
SHARE YOUR PORTFOLIO. Share your portfolio online. ...
TRACK ITS PERFORMANCE.

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What is the best free PDF editor? ›

The best free PDF editors you can download today

PDF Candy. Best free PDF editor. Our expert review: ...
PDFescape. Ample annotation tools for free. Our expert review: ...
Apple Preview. A great free option for Mac users. Our expert review: ...
FormSwift. A great tool for forms. Our expert review: ...
Smallpdf. Good for file conversion.

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Can you create an editable PDF in Canva? ›

Absolutely! All users can upload, customize, and share their PDF documents for free using our PDF editor.

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What does a PDF portfolio look like? ›

A PDF Portfolio contains multiple files assembled into an integrated PDF unit. The files in a PDF Portfolio can be in a wide range of file types created in different applications. For example, a PDF Portfolio can include text documents, e-mail messages, spreadsheets, CAD drawings, and PowerPoint presentations.

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How do I create a PDF portfolio without Adobe? ›

If you don't want to pay for Adobe or just try the 7-day free trial in Adobe, therefore, Nitro PDF Pro can be your selection. It offers a similar ability to Adobe in terms of creating the PDF portfolio. You can freely import your target files like PDF, Excel, PPT, images, etc., into this desktop software.

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How many pages should a PDF portfolio be? ›

Your PDF should have 10 to 20 pages. Quality over quantity. It is less about how many projects you include, more about the content.

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Should a portfolio be a PDF? ›

For applications, though, a PDF portfolio is usually the standard format. This will be an edited, tailored and well-curated selection of your work that helps a potential employer understand more about you and your suitability for a role.

Where can I host a PDF portfolio? ›

Tiiny Host is the best option to host your PDF portfolio. Easily curate a selection of your work to impress a potential employer or client.