Questions tagged [adobe-acrobat]
Adobe Acrobat is Adobe's family of Adobe's Portable Document Format (PDF) management software.
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How to get rid of annoying error of "Your adobe trial has expired..." when trying to print as PDF?
If you used a trial version of Adobe that you cancelled and later try to print PDF as image (using Adobe Reader) it doesn't allow it and gives an error
This feature is otherwise free but it still ...
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How do I get rid of this Adobe Acrobat “Make Adobe Acrobat your default PDF app” notification?
I periodically get this Adobe Acrobat ad as a Windows 11 notification.
I think I found a notification related setting in Acrobat's menu somewhere before and disabled notification, but this keeps ...
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Acrobat PDF search function doesn't work
My document is a text based PDF, nothing scanned.
I copy a word from the document to the search box, and nothing is found.
I'm sure this is some configuration issue
How can I make search work?
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Acrobat Reader Crashes Upon Launch for Non-Admin Users
In Windows 11, as Administrator, I installed Adobe Acrobat Reader (64-bit) with the following command:
winget install --id Adobe.Acrobat.Reader.64-bit --scope machine --source winget
This succeeded, ...
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How to convert a fillable PDF form into Microsoft Word or Excel (no Acrobat Pro) for easy editing and macro integration? [closed]
I’m leading a digital transformation project and need to convert a fillable PDF form into either Microsoft Word or Excel, depending on which is more practical for the end users and automation needs.
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How can I quickly convert a large PDF file with many pages into a PowerPoint (PPT) file? [closed]
I have approximately 10,000 PDF files that I’ve merged into files containing 500 pages each (20 files of 500 pages). Now, I want to convert each merged PDF file into a PowerPoint (PPT) file as quickly ...
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Why does my user folder on Windows 11 contains an “.ms-ad folder?”
On Windows 11, under C:\Users\my_user_name\, I have an empty folder called .ms-ad.
When I looked for its origin, I discovered that some people claim that it's a folder related to Microsoft Active ...
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Acrobat Reader can't tile print PDF posters that are one page in height but several in width
I'm trying to print two PDF documents that are one 11" page in height but several in width. One of the documents is 68" x 11" (eight pages wide), the other is 17" x 11" (two ...
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Adobe Acrobat: keyboard or mouse shortcut to resize an image preserving aspect ratio?
I often need to insert in a PDF an image that is too large for the place. Then I need to resize it (preserving aspect ratio). I know that I can select the image and drag a corner to resize it. ...
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Printing Adobe PDF in Poster Format With Equal Amount of White Space
I am trying to print a double side dust cover of a book. I can only print on Letter sized paper, whereas the dust cover I am trying to print is 20 inches x 8.5 inches, so I was hoping to use the ...
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Is there any work around the limits in side cropping in Adobe Acrobat Pro?
I a trying to batch crop the sides of a pdf (from the section Organize pages), but there is a side limit of 4.511 inches?
Is there any work around this incovenience?
Here's one page of said PDF.
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Recover PDF comments when Adobe Acrobat Reader has frozen
While editing a .pdf file adding comments, my Adobe Acrobat Reader (version 2024.003.20180) suddenly froze and after a while all the pages turned white. I could only see my comments, saving didn't ...
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Acrobat: transfer 'sign yourself' signature between laptops
Adobe Acrobat has a 'sign yourself' function that allows the use of signatures and initials:
How do I transfer my 'sign yourself' signature from the old laptop to the new one?
I'm in the process of ...
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Why does Acrobat Pro show empty menus for passwords in macOS 14?
On a 2018 Mac Mini running macOS 14.1.1. I installed Acrobat Pro as a trial, and opened up a password protected PDF.
I then selected the 'protect' item from the tools left-hand 'menu', and was ...
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Adobe Acrobat is moving from a page to another like slides instead of scrolling, how can I fix this?
when I use adobe acrobat to view pdf files, some are viewed normally and I can scroll normally, stopping between to pages and it's completely fine. When I open other files, though, there appears a ...
