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Printing custom sizes
Printing an oversized document: Although you can create a PDF file as large as
15,000,000 inches (38,100,000 cm) in either direction, most desktop printers cannot
print such large pages. To print an oversized document on your desktop printer, you
can print each page in pieces, called tiles, and then trim and assemble those pieces.
You can also increase the scale of a standard-sized document and print it on mul-
tiple pages.
1 Choose File > Print.
2 From the Page Scaling menu, choose Tile All Pages if all pages of the document
are oversized. If some of the pages are standard-sized, choose Tile Large Pages.
3 (Optional) Set any of these options, referring to the Preview image to check the
output results:
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Tile Scale adjusts the scaling. The scaling affects how the sections of the PDF
page map to the physical sheet.
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Overlap specifies the minimum amount of duplicated information you want
printed on each tile for ease in assembly. The Overlap option uses the unit of
measure specified for the document. The value should be greater than the
minimum nonprinting margins for the printer. You can specify up to half the size
of the shortest side of the document page to overlap. For example, tiles for a
page that measures 11-by-17 inches (279.4mm-by-431.8mm) can overlap up to
5.5 inches (139.7mm).
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Labels includes the PDF name, date of printing, and tile coordinates on every
sheet. For example, Page 1 (1,1) means row 1, column 1 of the first page. Tile
coordinates are used for reassembling the tiles.
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Cut Marks prints marks on each corner of a tiled page for ease of assembly.
Use this option in conjunction with the Overlap option. When you specify an
overlapping edge and then superimpose those edges, you can use the cut marks
to line up the tiles.
Scaling a document for printing: To print an oversized PDF on paper that has
smaller dimensions, you can scale the document’s width and height to fit.
1 Choose File > Print.
2 From the Page Scaling menu, choose Fit To Printable Area or Shrink To Printable
Area.
—From the Adobe Acrobat 9 Help
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Permanently removing text from
Pdf documents
Often you need to remove sensitive personal information from a document before
passing it on to a client or colleague. Acrobat 9 offers the redaction feature, which
allows you to permanently remove sensitive data from your documents. You can
remove data in both horizontal and vertical formats. For more information, see
Lesson 12, “Using the Legal Features.”
Using the Pdf Maps feature
Acrobat 9 offers the PDF Maps feature that allows you to create, view, and interact
with PDF maps that contain geospatial coordinates. You can import geospatially
enabled TIFF, JPEG 2000, SHP, and PDF map files and convert them to Adobe PDF
maps. You can mark locations and find locations on PDF maps by entering coordi-
nates, and you can determine distances using real-world units—kilometers, miles,
etc. You can copy a location from a PDF map to a Web mapping service such as
Google Maps, Yahoo Maps, or Mapquest.
With 3D maps, you can use the Fly tool (
) on the 3D toolbar to zoom in close to
the surface of the earth. You have finer control as the Fly Tool slows down as it gets
close to earth.
All Acrobat 9 users can use the geospatial measurement and location tools and
default views. Users of Acrobat 9 Pro and Pro Extended can also create PDF maps,
import map content, and export geospatial markups. Only users of Pro Extended
can use the geospatial registration tool and 3D navigation feature.
1 In Acrobat, choose File > Open, navigate to the Lesson13 folder, select the
SanJose_Geo.pdf file, and click Open.
2 Choose View > Toolbars > Analysis.
You’ll use the Geospatial Location tool (
) to locate the Adobe San Jose office.
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3 Select the Geospatial Location tool.
Right click (Windows) or Control-click
(Mac OS) in the document pane, and
select Find A Location from the context
menu.
4 In the floating window at the
bottom of the page, enter the
latitude and longitude values
for the Adobe San Jose office.
(We entered 37.3310 for the
latitude and -121.8901 for
the longitude.) Press Enter or
Return.
周e location of the office is
marked with a small square.
5 To mark the location of the
office with an annotation,
move your pointer over
the small blue square,
right-click (Windows) or
Control-click (Mac OS),
and choose Mark Location
from the context menu.
(Double-click on the
annotation to open it and
check on the coordinates.)
6 Choose File > Save As, and save your annotated map in the Lesson13 folder
using the name SanJose_Geo1.pdf. Close the file.
You can also determine the coordinates of a location on the map and export the
coordinates to a mapping service.
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geospatial registration
(acrobat Pro extended)
Geospatially enabled PDF files from third-party providers can be imported into
Acrobat Pro Extended, or latitude and longitude coordinates can be added to an
existing PDF map to make it geospatially enabled.
If you are working with a geospatially enabled PDF, you can find locations, measure
distances, add location markers, and export location data to a web mapping service.
In this section of the lesson, you’ll geospatially enable a PDF map.
1 In Acrobat, navigate to the Lesson13 folder, and open the MtRainier.pdf file.
周en choose File > Save As, and save the file in the Lesson13 folder using the
name MtRainier_Enabled.pdf.
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周is is a simple image of a map. 周e bottom
left corner of the map describes the projec-
tion that the map is based on. You can use
the Marquee Zoom tool if you want to zoom
in and read this information.
2 Select the Geospatial Registration
tool (
) on the Analysis toolbar. Enter
a name for your map. We entered
MtRainier. Click Next, and select Use
Page Bounds As Neatline. Click Next again.
While the neatline helps define the map area, it is the coordinate input that defines
the area that is registered. You’ll need four coordinates (the four corners of the map)
to geospatially register the page.
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3 If necessary, drag the Geospatial Registration box into the middle of the map,
away from the corners. Click on the upper-left corner of the map, and for
point 1, enter 47 for the latitude and -122 for the longitude.
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Click the upper-right corner, and enter Lat 47, Long -121 for point 2.
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Click the lower-left corner, and enter Lat 46.30, Long -122 for point 3.
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Click the lower-right corner, and enter Lat 46.30, Long -121 for point 4.
4 Click Next.
5 Click the arrow to open the Projected
menu, and scroll down to select
NAD_1927_StatePlane_Washington_
South_FIPS_4602.
6 Click the arrow to open the Datum
Transform menu, and scroll down to select
NAD_1927_to_WGS_1984_1. Click OK,
and click OK again to close the message
box.
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7 Select the Geospatial
Location tool (
), and click
in the area of the summit of
Mt . Rainier. Note that the
coordinates are now visible.
Your map is geospatially
enabled.
8 When you are finished, choose View > Toolbars> Reset Toolbars, and then
choose File > Close to close the work file.
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review questions
1 In general, where do layers in an Adobe PDF file originate? How are they added to
the file?
2 Can you permanently expunge or remove text and illustrations from a PDF document?
3 How can you create a geospatially enabled PDF map?
review answers
1 Generally, layers come from the authoring program, such as AutoCAD, Microsoft Visio,
Adobe Illustrator, or Adobe InDesign. 周ey are created in these programs and exported
as a component of the PDF when the PDF file is generated.
2 Yes, you can use the Redaction tool to “ink over” selected text and illustrations,
maintaining the original look of the document but obliterating sensitive material.
3 With Acrobat 9 Pro Extended, you can geospatially enable any PDF map using the
Geospatial Registration tool.
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lesson overview
In this lesson you'll do the following:
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Create Adobe PDF files suitable for high-resolution
printing.
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Preflight an Adobe PDF file to check for quality
and consistency.
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View how transparent objects affect a page.
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Configure color management.
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Use Acrobat to generate color separations.
周is lesson will take approximately 60 minutes to complete. Copy the
Lesson14 folder onto your hard drive if you haven't already done so.
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